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Voluntary Action, Territory and Timing: The Council of Social Service for Wales, Periodisation and the New Historiography of the ‘British Welfare State’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2021

DANIEL WINCOTT Open the ORCID record for DANIEL WINCOTT [Opens in a new window] ,
PAUL CHANEY  and
CHRISTALA SOPHOCLEOUS
DANIEL WINCOTT
Affiliation:
Blackwell Professor of Law and Society, Cardiff University School of Law and Politics, Wales Governance Centre; Co-Investigator, WISERD
PAUL CHANEY
Affiliation:
Professor of Policy and Politics, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences; Co-Director of WISERD
CHRISTALA SOPHOCLEOUS
Affiliation:
Research Associate, WISERD; Cardiff University School of Social Sciences
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Abstract

This article analyses the development of the Council of Social Service for Wales during what is often called the Golden Age of the Welfare State. Recovering the neglected history of the peak organisation for voluntary social service in Wales adds to our understanding of the histories of social policy and postwar Wales. The article addresses social policy from a doubly peripheral perspective – it attends to a territorial periphery of the UK State while voluntary action can be left at the margins of Welfare State analysis. From this perspective we hope to cast new light on the historiography of the ‘British Welfare State’

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Walesvoluntary actioncivil societywelfare stateterritorialityperiodisation

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , January 2023 , pp. 157 - 175
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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