History and Policy

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Journal Article History and Policy Get access Pat Thane Pat Thane Pat Thane is Professor of Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, where she manages the day-to-day work of History & Policy, in association with Professor Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Simon Szreter and Alastair Reid of Cambridge University. Her publications include: Britain's Pensions Crisis: History and Policy, ed. with Hugh Pemberton and Noel Whiteside (OUP/British Academy, 2006); Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues (OUP, 2000); and The Foundations of the Welfare State (Longman, 1982, 1996). Email: Pat.Thane@sas.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 140–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbn053 Published: 01 March 2009