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Welfare, social security and self-help

Unemployment policy and assistance

Unemployed man advertising for work.

In the 1930s, Lady Clough Anson ran a canteen for unemployed workers at Waterloo Road in London.

An unemployment benefit office at Middlesbrough.

Pensions and family support

In 1959 pensioners join Welsh miners at a demonstration in Eaton Square.

A game of pocket skittles.

In August 1946 the first recipients of family allowances meet the Minister of National Insurance at Stepney in London.

In April 1956 young residents at a Dr Barnado's children's home.

Health

A hospital ward in the early twentieth century.

Checking orders for new spectacles.

Patients are nursed on a ward in the new Guy's Hospital building in London in 1961.

A chart showing how the yearly planning cycle was to work in the reorganised NHS.

A patient at Winson Green Hospital in Birmingham.

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