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A Beveridge Plan for an Unruly School? William Beveridge and LSE

Hosted by LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0

Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building

Speaker

Professor Michael Cox

Professor Michael Cox

Chair

Professor David Stevenson

There have been many famous Directors of LSE, from Halford Mackinder to Ralph Dahrendorf.  But none can lay claim to such fame as LSE’s fourth Director, William Beveridge - generally regarded as the main architect of the Welfare State and the energetic visionary who oversaw a major expansion of LSE from 1919-1937.  

But though his achievements at LSE were by any measure great, his relations with some of the School’s leading academic figures were never easy, while his attempt to redefine the nature of the social sciences floundered. Why was rethinking the relationship between state and society  an easier task for Beveridge  than  running an ‘unruly School’? 

Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE. He is author and editor of over twenty books, currently working on a ‘new’ history of LSE.

Professor David Stevenson is the Stevenson Professor of International History, Department of International History, LSE.

LSE IDEAS (@lseideas) is LSE's foreign policy think tank. We connect academic knowledge of diplomacy and strategy with the people who use it.

Twitter hashtags for this event: #LSEBeveridge #LSEFestival

This event is part of the LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0 running from Monday 19 to Saturday 24 February 2018, with a series of events rethinking the welfare state for the 21st century and the global context. 

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