A Place of Greater Safety

Published: April 20, 2023, 9:10 a.m.

Historian Emily Baughan on two books chronicling the immense impact of the NHS and the welfare state on the lives of Britons; and a new film explores Patricia Highsmith\u2019s hinterland.



\u2019The Welfare State generation: Women, agency and class in Britain since 1945\u2019, by Eve Worth

\u2018Poster, protests and prescriptions: Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain\u2019, edited by Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand

\u2018Loving Highsmith\u2019, a film by Eva Vitija


Produced by Charlotte Pardy



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