A Duty of Care

Britain Before and After Corona

A Duty of Care
Peter Hennessy
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Hardback
h240 x 156mm - 224pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
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9780241491942
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One of the most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-corona society in BritainThe ' 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 corona) and AC (after corona). He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the ' five giants' on the road to recovery- want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state. Hennessy examines the attack on the giants after the war and asks what the giants are now, and calls for ' a new Beveridge' to build a consensus for post-corona Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved in the decades after the Second World War.
Peter Hennessy, one of Britain' s best-known historians, is Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of the classic ' post-war trilogy' Never Again- Britain 1945-51 (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.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780241491942
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Allen Lane
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 224

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