Talk on 1960s/70s London Welfare Policy

Great talk by John Davis (Queens College Oxford) at the Centre for Urban History yesterday. In his presentation “Reshaping welfare: the London experience, 1960-1975” he demonstrated how welfare policy, initiatives of community groups and protest movements were intertwined as a new sensitivity and definition of social problems and poverty emerged. I was especially intrigued by the broad-spread and detailed analysis of sources he based his argument on. In general, I think, his research is challenging conventional narratives - I enjoyed it!