The Making of Welfare Policy in Britain from Lloyd George to Clement Atlee, 1900-1951 (ES0087)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-MWelPolB

This specialist course is organized on the basis of nine 1.5 hour lecture/seminar sessions. The main aim of the course is to analyse the development and processes of welfare policy-making in Britain in the first half of the twentieth-century, from the Liberal welfare reforms of the Edwardian period to the introduction of the Welfare State after 1945. The course provides an in-depth examination of the social, economic and political factors shaping policy, and, in particular, the respective roles of voluntarism, bureaucracy, business interest groups, and economic and financial ideology.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course seeks to develop:
- An advanced knowledge of and competency in a specialist field of economic and social history.
- An ability to apply economic and social theory to an understanding of key themes in modern British governance.
- A knowledge and understanding of the central historiographical issues surrounding welfare policy-making in twentieth-century Britain.
- An awareness of the primary and secondary sources employed by welfare historians of twentieth-century Britain.
- The ability to engage with a specific issue in the history of twentieth-century welfare policy-making, incorporating appropriate literary, data-analytical, and bibliographical skills.