From Beveridge to Blair

From Beveridge to BlairThe creation of Britains welfare state in 1948 was an event of major international importance. Designed to provide a concise introduction to the evolution of both the structure of the welfare state and attitudes towards it. Concentrates on five core services: health care, education, social security, the personal social services and housing. For each service it examines the original vision, the attempts to implement this vision, the resulting

Nowhere is this more evident than in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai

the art of lavish yet legible handwriting is no longer being taught to schoolchildren or employed in daily life—much to the dismay of those who receive hastily scrawled love notes or try to decipher a doctor’s prescription

by analysing films that represent both ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture side by side

Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers

Taking a comprehensive critical and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 to the present

This fully-revised edition features new text and illustrations

the limits placed on representation by experiences of pain and death

is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university theatre departments

Like many others

the essays that constitute Advertising as Culture offer an informed and critical overview of approaches to the study of advertising

A critical examination of the promise and reality of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (#1) that seeks to eradicate poverty

and management studies