A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid - Couverture rigide

Hennessy, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241491940 ISBN 13 : 9780241491942

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2022

Synopsis

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in Britain

The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed?

In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before covid) and AC (after covid). He looks back to Sir William Beveridge's classic identification of the 'five giants' against which society had to battle - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state in his wartime report. He examines the steady assault on the giants by successive post-war governments and asks what the comparable giants are now. He lays out the 'road to 2045' with 'a new Beveridge' to build a consensus for post-covid Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved by the first.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Hennessy, one of Britain's best-known historians, is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of the classic 'post-war trilogy', Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties (winner of the Orwell Prize) and Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945-2010. He was made an independent crossbench life Peer in 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241491940
• ISBN 13: 9780241491942
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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