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Events on Tuesday 1 December 1942 1
1942Beveridge Report publishedBlueprint for the British welfare stateWilliam Beveridge published Social Insurance and Allied Services, which proposed a national system of social security to fight "Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness". The report was hugely popular in wartime Britain. It shaped the postwar Labour government's welfare reforms and the creation of the National Health Service.