Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870

Lawrence Goldman, Senior Research Fellow, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford

Lawrence Goldman was educated at Cambridge and at Yale where he was a Harkness Fellow. After a junior research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent 29 years as a university lecturer in Oxford and as a tutorial fellow of St. Peter's College, moving to the Directorship of the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London in 2014. From its publication in 2004 until 2014, he was the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Throughout his career he has taught both modern British and American History and published widely on the political and social history of both countries, including studies of the history of workers' education, Victorian social science, and the biography of the political thinker and historian, R. H. Tawney.

Foreword
List of Contributors
Introduction, Lawrence Goldman
Part I: Idealism and its Legacy
1. "The Organized Selfishness of Empire": Welfare Philosophies, Human Rights, and Empire in Britain, 1870-1920, Sandra den Otter
2. The Civic Moment in British Social Thought: Civil Society and the Ethics of Citizenship, c. 1880-1914, Stuart Jones
3. Founding the Welfare State: Beveridge, Tawney and Temple, Lawrence Goldman
4. Private Benefit, Public Finance? Student Funding in late-twentieth century Britain, William Whyte
Part II: Planning
5. Planning in Modern Britain: Its History and Dimensions, Brian Harrison
6. "Socialist Realism": The Short Life of Left-wing Economic Revisionism in the 1920s, Daniel Ritschel
7. The Reluctant Planner: T. H. Marshall and Political Thought in British Social Policy, Julia Moses
Part III: Contesting Welfare
8. Richard Titmuss versus the IEA: the Transition from Idealism to Neo-liberalism in British Social Policy, Ben Jackson
9. Conservative Thinkers and the Post-War State, 1945-79, Edmund Neill
10. You got an Ology? The Backlash Against Sociology in Britain, c. 1945-1990, Matthew Grimley
Part III: Beyond the Welfare State
11. Reshaping the Welfare State? Voluntary Action and Community in London, 1960-1975, John Davis
12. A New Governance: Hierarchies, Markets, and Networks, cc. 1979-2010, Mark Bevir