William Beveridge, Unemployment and Broadcasting in the 1930s

Primary Sources to understand responses in the period to unemployment and the development of broadcast media in Britain for AS / A-Level History.

Curriculum Links:

AQA History – Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906 – 1957 (Social and cultural impact of the Depression and radio in the 1930s) and Challenge and Transformation: Britain 1851-1964 (Growth of Media, Depression, and Condition of the working classes).

Pearson Edexcel History – Route H: Democracies in Change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century- changing quality of life and Paper 3 Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c 1780 – 1939. Depression and the Dole.

A presentation and teachers notes with more information with original sources and background information:

• archival sources from LSE Collections: pointers can be given on using historical evidence and evaluating it for more depth
• background information is provided in the notes
• can recap on what they have learnt on unemployment in the UK in the 1930s
• links to changing role of women in society
• Can use to introduce Beveridge and some of the motivations behind The Beveridge Report, 1942