STATE PROVISION FOR SOCIAL NEED: SERIES TWO: Parts 3 and 4 STATE PROVISION FOR SOCIAL NEED: Series Two: The Beveridge Papers from the British Library of Political and Economic Science Part 3: Correspondence and Papers on Health Services, Old Age, Pensions, New Towns and Post-War Europe, 1919-1962 Part 4: Reports and Working Papers on Coal, Unemployment, Food Rationing, Manpower, Fuel, and Social Insurance, 1925-1962 Contents listing PUBLISHER'S NOTE - PART 3 TECHNICAL NOTE CONTENTS OF REELS - PART 3 PUBLISHER'S NOTE - PART 4 CONTENTS OF REELS - PART 4 STATE PROV SOC NEED: SERIES TWO: Parts 3 and 4 Publisher's Note - Part 3 In Series Two of this microfilm project we cover Sections III, IV, VI, VII and VIII of the William Henry Beveridge Papers from the British Library of Political and Economic Science. This project covers just those Sections of subject files with a strong bearing on the Welfare State, the Beveridge Report, Social Insurance, Health, Pensions and Economic Planning after 1945. Other Sections, principally the major runs of correspondence and other material still restricted by copyright are not covered here. The subject files in this microfilm project are made available as follows: Part 1: Early Working Papers on Welfare, Labour and Unemployment Insurance, 1902-1944 (Sections III and IV) Part 2: Politics, Economic Planning, Social Insurance, Health and the Welfare State, 1944-1963 (Section VI) Part 3: Correspondence and Papers on Health Services, Old Age, Pensions, New Towns and Post-War Europe, 1919- 1962 (Section VII) Part 4: Reports and Working Papers on Coal, Unemployment, Food Rationing, Manpower, Fuel and Social Insurance, 1925-1961 (Section VIII) Re-examining the Welfare State in detail has become a major preoccupation of modern day governments in the late 1990s. Here we provide a comprehensive microfilm edition of all the private papers amassed by Beveridge on this subject between 1902 and 1963. The publication of the Beveridge Report, in 1942, captured the public imagination and it was his proposals which set the agenda for post-war reconstruction. This Report enjoyed widespread coverage in the American press. It made the following major recommendations: a comprehensive scheme of Social Insurance including unemployment and sickness benefit, maternity benefit, widow’s benefit and pension, guardian’s allowance, retirement pension and other grants a free National Health Service a system of Family Allowances training schemes for the Unemployed There is extensive detail on all these topics as well as many documents on Beveridge's thinking in the 1920s and 1930s. In the process of compiling his findings Beveridge looked in detail at many early attempts to pass legislation to make provision for social need. This included analysis of early steps taken in Germany under Bismarck, the work of the Webbs and the Fabian Society, legislation passed by Lloyd George in 1911, the US Wisconsin Plan and the National Resources Planning Board of the United States of America. Above all Beveridge is best remembered for the beginning of the Social Services administration and the Welfare State in Britain, the formation of the National Health Service and the desire to tackle the difficult problems of unemployment. Part 1 covers a range of papers from Beveridge's work with the London Unemployed Fund in 1904 and 1905, his visit to Germany in 1907, his study of unemployment as a problem of industry, his work on Labour Exchanges, Unemployment Insurance, to Manpower and Reconstruction in the Inter-War period. Part 2 includes his correspondence as a constituency MP for Berwick on Tweed, 1944-1945, the General Election campaign of 1945 as well as all Beveridge's papers relating to Parliamentary affairs and debates, especially Social Insurance, the Children's Bill, the Economic Situation, Housing, the Family, Welfare, the Health Service, the National Insurance Bill of 1954, Provision for Old Age, Pension Schemes, Transport Problems, the United Nations, Disarmament and Europe. Part 3 has a strong focus on Health Services, Hospitals, Old Age, Pensions, Economic Planning, New Towns, Post-War Europe and the role of the United Nations after 1945, the European-Atlantic Group, along with material on the Crusade for World Government, Federal Union, the Parliamentary Group for World Government and papers on Broadcasting and Television. Part 4 provides complete coverage of all the working papers, correspondence and notes for all Beveridge's Reports: The Royal Commission on the Coal Industry of 1925, with papers for 1925-1930. The Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee of 1934-1944, with papers for 1934-1944. The Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence on Food Rationing, 1936, with papers for 1936-1937. The Manpower Survey of 1940 and The Committee on Skilled Men in the Services, 1941 with papers for 1939-1943. The Fuel Rationing Enquiry of 1942, with papers for 1941-1945. The Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services, 1941-1942 (the Beveridge Report), with papers for 1941-1961. The Broadcasting Committee, 1949-1950, with papers for 1949-1950. A single paperback guide accompanies the first two parts of Series Two of this microfilm project. A second paperback guide covers Parts 3 and 4. STATE PROV SOC NEED: SERIES TWO: Parts 3 and 4 <back STATE PROV SOC NEED: SERIES TWO: Parts 3 and 4 Technical Note Our microfilm publications have been prepared and produced in accordance with recommended and established guide-lines for the production of microform of superior quality. These conform to the recommendations of the standard guides to good microforming and micropublishing practice. Attention should be drawn to the nature of the original material. All the material consists of boxes containing bundles and files of correspondence and loose papers as well as some volumes of printed material, notebooks and other bound items. Most of the material is in very good condition. A few manuscript documents consist of faintly legible correspondence and records written with a variety of inks, pens or pencils and on paper of many different types and thicknesses. 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The staff of Microformat UK Ltd have exercised the most responsible care in the filming of this unique collection at the British Library of Economic and Political Science and this microfilm publication meets the standards established by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). <back STATE PROVISION FOR SOCIAL NEED Series Two: The Beveridge Papers from the British Library of Political and Economic Science Part 3: Correspondence and Papers on Health Services, Old Age, Pensions, New Towns and Post­War Europe, 1919­1962 CONTENTS OF REELS ­ PART 3 REEL 49 SECTION VII: OTHER INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES [Ia and Ib in former catalogue] Item Former Ref Akroyd Family 1 Ia 302 A2.101 William Akroyd’s Foundation: correspondence about Founder’s scholarships and related papers, 1938, 1947­ 63. 2 Ia 302 Annette Akroyd Scholarship: correspondence about establishment and award of scholarship at Bedford College, London, 1929­1955. Health Services and Old Age 3 Ia 317 Ia 318 supp. Reports, Papers and Correspondence re: British, Swedish X.XXVI and Italian Health Services; Notes and Impressions by John Dodd; Hospital Costing Returns for the National Health Service year ending 31 March 1953; Papers and Reports on the National Health Service, 1942­1955. [2 bundles]. REEL 50 3 cont. Ia 317 Ia 318 supp. Reports, Papers and Correspondence on the X.XXVI National Health Service, 1942­1955; Newscuttings; Papers on the British Hospitals Contributory Schemes Association, 1948­1954; including correspondence, material and speech notes for Beveridge's address to the British Hospitals Contributory Schemes Association (1948) Conference, in Bristol, 5 November 1954. [4 bundles]. REEL 51 4 Ia 312 Correspondence with John Dodd and memoranda about health services, 1961­1962. 5 Ia 318 Ia 326 National League of Hospital Friends and British Red Cross Society: Correspondence, 1950­1962. [2 files]. Item Former Ref Health Services and Old Age (continued) 6 Ib 358 supp. Phillips Committee on Provision for Old Age: correspondence and memoranda, 1953­1954. 1 REEL 52 7 Ib 360 or L Correspondence about Parliamentary debates on pensions and related papers, 1954­1955. 8 Ib 358 Correspondence, material and notes for speech on Problems of the Aged to Barnet Club, Oxford, 1 March 1955. 9 Ib 360 Correspondence, reports, memoranda, speech notes and other papers about problems of Old Age and Pensions, 1953­1959, including proof copy of text on Institute of Economic Affairs. [2 files]. REEL 53 9 cont. Ib 360 Correspondence, memoranda, speech notes and other papers about problems of Old Age and Pensions, 1953­ 59, including "The Purpose of Pensions" and "Providing Security for Old People: Lord Beveridge on current problems about Pensions". [1 file]. 10 Ib 358 Correspondence, material, speech notes and other papers about problems of Old Age, 1955­1961. [3 files]. 11 Ib 358 Draft pamphlet on the Problems of Old Age and related correspondence, 1961. 12 Ib 358 Draft addresses on housing problems of old people to Abbeyfield Society Conference, 28 April 1961 and at Newcastle, 18 August 1961. REEL 54 13 Ib 358 Correspondence and Papers about housing problems of old people, 1961­1962.