Voluntary action, territory and timing: the Council of Social Service for Wales, periodisation and the new historiography of the 'British Welfare State', 1919-1980

Wincott, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9287-2150, Chaney, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-0436 and Sophocleous, Christala ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6079-1391 2023. Voluntary action, territory and timing: the Council of Social Service for Wales, periodisation and the new historiography of the 'British Welfare State', 1919-1980. Journal of Social Policy 52 (1) , pp. 157-175. 10.1017/S0047279421000489

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Abstract

This article analyses the development of the Council of Social Service for Wales during what is often called the Golden Age of the Welfare State. Recovering the neglected history of the peak organisation for voluntary social service in Wales adds to our understanding of the histories of social policy and postwar Wales. The article addresses social policy from a doubly peripheral perspective – it attends to a territorial periphery of the UK State while voluntary action can be left at the margins of Welfare State analysis. From this perspective we hope to cast new light on the historiography of the ‘British Welfare State’

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0047-2794
Funders:	ESRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	27 May 2021
Date of Acceptance:	18 May 2021
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 14:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/141618

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