Georgina Brewis

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  • Professor of Social History, UCL
A caricaturist for The Bystander captures the captain of the Oxford men’s hockey team during a match in Kent, in 1923 Smith Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

Housing shortages and crowded classes: how life on campus changed after the first world war

Georgina Brewis, UCL; Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University, Newcastle, and Rowan Thompson, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Post-war government support saw ex-servicemen head to university by the tens of thousands. Their distinct perspective – and their numbers – shaped 1920s student life
Collecting the family allowance in 1946: the Beveridge report influenced the creation of Britain’s welfare state. PA Archive/PA Images

An end to ‘want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness’: why the Beveridge report flew off the shelves in 1942

Irene Hardill, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Georgina Brewis, UCL, and Rose Lindsey, University of Southampton

Thousands queued to buy the report by William Beveridge that would lay the foundations for Britain’s modern welfare state.

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