Welfare Policy
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Social control through fear and violence: Children and the New Poor Law workhouse
In this fifth annual series of seminars on the lives of those experiencing or threatened with Old and New Poor…
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‘No Redeeming Feature’: Pauperism, Workhouses, and the Aliens Acts, 1906-1939
In this fifth annual series of seminars on the lives of those experiencing or threatened with Old and New Poor…
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Talking to ‘benefit cheats’: Oral histories from danger to redemption
Professor Steven King presents “Talking to ‘benefit cheats’: Oral histories from danger to redemption” as part of the CRHHMS Centre…
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Roundtable: Britain’s Sicknote Culture
In this episode, first recorded in September 2024, Steven King and Cat Gower are joined by historians Dr Geoff Monks…
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Steven King discusses Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present
In this episode recorded in September 2024 Steven King and Cat Gower discuss King’s latest book, Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats…
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Why Reeves and Kendall’s Welfare Budget Cuts are doomed to fail
Steven King looks both ahead and to the past when considering Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall’s plans for welfare budget…
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The British Welfare Citizen: Past, Present and Future
What should the rights and balancing duties of the modern welfare citizen be? Steven King looks at the longer history…