No products in the cart.
Use coupon code “MARCH20” for a 20% discount on all items! Valid until 31-03-2025
Royal Mail express delivery to UK destinations
Regular sales and promotions
Stock updates every 20 minutes!
We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.
The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ...
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
Use coupon code “MARCH20” for a 20% discount on all items! Valid until 31-03-2025
Royal Mail express delivery to UK destinations
Regular sales and promotions
Stock updates every 20 minutes!
2 in stock
£15.99
Buy new:
Delivery: UK delivery Only. Usually dispatched in 1-2 working days.
Shipping costs: All shipping costs calculated in the cart or during the checkout process.
Standard service (normally 2-3 working days): 48hr Tracked service.
Premium service (next working day): 24hr Tracked service – signature service included.
Royal mail: 24 & 48hr Tracked: Trackable items weighing up to 20kg are tracked to door and are inclusive of text and email with ‘Leave in Safe Place’ options, but are non-signature services. Examples of service expected: Standard 48hr service – if ordered before 3pm on Thursday then expected delivery would be on Saturday. If Premium 24hr service used, then expected delivery would be Friday.
Signature Service: This service is only available for tracked items.
Leave in Safe Place: This option is available at no additional charge for tracked services.
| Product ID: | 9780007102648 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Five Giants |
| Subtitle: | A Biography of the Welfare State |
| Authors: | Author: Nicholas Timmins |
| Page Count: | 720 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Social and ethical issues, Welfare and benefit systems, Social issues & processes, Welfare & benefit systems, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover Blair's first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy. An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State – now fully revised to cover Blair’s first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy.‘Giant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. And the insidious Giant Idleness, “which destroys wealth and corrupts men”. These were evils to be vanquished by the postwar reconstruction of Britain. Timmins’ book recaptures brilliantly the high hopes of the period in which the Welfare State began to be created, and conveys the cranky zeal of its inventor, William Beveridge. The onslaught on the five Giants was the work of five gargantuan programmes that made up the core of Beveridge’s Welfare State. These were social security, health, education, housing and a policy of full employment. It is notoriously difficult to write about such subjects and keep the reader reading, but Timmins performs wonders of narrative clarity, anecdote and human detail in a book that finds its chosen level somewhere between Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ and ‘1066 and All That’…There is something very moving about his rhetoric of transformation and ‘The Five Giants’ will stir up strong emotions. It is impossible not to respond in personal terms to a book that is a part of so many of our histories, woven into the day-to-day texture of our lives.’ Fiona MacCarthy, ObserverBeveridge was originally only supposed to sort out the web of insurance services stifling Britain. ‘The Five Giants’ recounts how his original vision and campaign blossomed enormously to inspire a country at war with the hope that the peace might bring comfort and security for all. The tale hums with the energies and passions of activists, dreamers and ordinary Britons, and seethes with personal vendettas, forced compromises, arguments about money, awkward contradictions, noisy rows and fervent perseverance. Nicholas Timmins, who has seen how the Welfare State works every day for the last two decades, assesses the key personalities, the key problems, the key victories and key defeats in his anecdotal, witty and illuminating study of the Welfare State from the 1940s to the present day. |
| Imprint Name: | HarperCollins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-07-16 |
GoBookshop!
Proudly owned and operated by:
Raythex LTD
17-19 Saint Georges Street
NORWICH
NR3 1AB
Registered No. 15042401
We accept the following payment methods:
