National Insurance Act 1911
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The National Insurance Act 1911 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that created National Insurance, originally a system of health insurance for industrial workers in Great Britain base
Leaflet promoting the National Insurance Act 1911
The Doctor by Luke Fildes used in a 1911 Punch cartoon commenting on the effects of the act
Liberal welfare reforms
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The Liberal welfare reforms were a series of acts of social legislation in the United Kingdom passed by the Liberal Party after the 1906 general election. They represent the Liberal Party's transition
National Insurance Act 1911
…one of the foundations of the modern welfare state. It provided unemployment insurance for designated cyclical industries. It formed part of the wider social welfare reforms of the Liberal governments of 1906–1915, led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith. David Lloyd George, the Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer…
David Lloyd George was the key leader of the 'New Liberals' who passed welfare legislation
Workhouse Nantwich