Review: Europe: British Social Policy 1914–1939
| Author | Trevor Lloyd |
| Published date | 01 March 1973 |
| Date | 01 March 1973 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207302800118 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
170
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
C.C.
Tansill's America
and
the
Fight
for
Irish
Freedom,
published
in
1957.)
Study
in
three
continents
-
Britain,
Australia,
and
the
United
States
-
has
not
only
given
Dr
Ward
a
special
balance
and
breadth
of
view,
it
has
enabled
him to
make
interesting
comparisons
between
the
very
similar
roles
of
Irish
emigrants
in
the
two
continental nations.
And,
so
dreadfully
swift
has
been
the
pace
of
recent
events
in
Ireland, that
we
certainly
cannot
blame
him, in
the
case
of
a
work
published
in
1969,
for
the
error
of
his
conclusion
that
'with
the
Anglo-
Irish treaty
of
i921
the
British
government
substantially transferred
the
burden
of
the
Irish problem
to
the
Irish
themselves.'
Indeed,
If
I
had
been
properly
prompt
in
my
review,
I
could
never
have
made
the
observation.
H.C.
Allen/University
of East
Anglia
BRITISH SOCIAL
POLICY
1914-1939
Bentley
B.
Gilbert
London:
B.T.
Batsford
[Toronto:
Copp
Clark],
1970,
viii,
343PP,
$15.15
This
is
a
useful
book,
but
it
has
certainly
not
been
given
a
very
helpful
title and
it
is
a
little
hard
to
see
what
it
ought
to
be
called.
All of
the
fist
16o
pages,
and
some
of
the
remaining
i5o pages of
text
are
devoted
to developments
between
1914
and
1922
-
undoubtedly
an
important
period,
with
a
great
extension
of
unemployment
insurance
and
Addi-
son's
first
steps
in
public
housing.
Education
is
omitted
from
the
book
on the
grounds
that
nobody
was
very
interested
in
it,
so
Fisher's
Educa-
tion
Act
goes
undiscussed.
There
are
odd
contrasts
in
the
level
of
knowledge
expected
of readers:
the
discussion
of
the
'approved
societ-
ies'
and
insurance problems
in
the
last
chapter
of
the
book
is
a
very
informative
continuation
of
ground
covered
in
Gilbert's
earlier
Evolu-
tion
of
National
Insurance,
but
would
be
hard
for
a
non-specialist
to
follow;
on
the
other
-hand
the
dozen
pages
devoted
to
the
fall of
the
Labour
government
in
1931
are
not
much
more
than
ordinary political
history
at
a
level
that
would
be
rather
elementary
for anybody
who
could
understand
the 'approved
societies'
section.
In
short,
the chapters
should probably
be
taken
as
separate
essays,
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