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Beveridge Report Dynamite

The 1942 Beveridge Report (named after its author, Liberal economist William Beveridge) famously argued for state intervention to do away with the 'Five Giants': squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease. Received with considerable popular acclaim, the Report was also -- as cartoonist Charles Leslie Illingworth depicts here -- political dynamite. The explosive changes of the immediately post-war era can at least in part be traced to its charge.

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National Library of Wales/British Cartoon Archive https://www.cartoons.ac.uk/ copyright Associated Newspapers Ltd. / Solo Syndication

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