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In the Second World War the British people came of age because it was a people’s war: they were all involved and they themselves wanted to win. Indeed the British, that is those of the Empire, Dominions and the United Kingdom, were the only people who fought continuously throughout both world wars from beginning to end. But, as already mentioned, the second war was vastly different from the first. ‘The very spirit of the nation had changed. No one in 1945 wanted to go back to 1939. The majority were determined to go forward and were confident that they could do so’.43 This was also the time when the Hammersmith changed from what others thought it should be to what those with more imagination and less tradition thought it could be. ‘Imperial greatness was on the way out; the Welfare State was on the way in.’ There was also mounting demand for a Welfare State as guarantee against any relapse to pre-war conditions.
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Beveridge, W. (1943) Social Insurances and Allied Services, HMSO, London. Sir William was an economist and his wife was Secretary and Acting Dean of the London School of Economics and Political Science 1919–1938: she wrote a book, Beveridge and his Plan, in 1954 and died in 1959. He was made a Baron in 1946. One observer said of his Report that ‘it was uncluttered by evidence’: perhaps a bit unfair?.
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Goodenough, see ref. 10, and also Pickering, G. W. (1962) Postgraduate Education and the Specialties with special reference to the Problem in London, HMSO, London.
Lord Robbins, a professor of Economics and later the first Chancellor of Stirling University (1966–1978), had been asked to examine the need for higher education by Harold Macmillan in 1960 and reported to Sir Alec Douglas-Home in March 1964. Dr Jacob Bronowski, Director-General of the National Coal Board’s process development department and a well-known writer and broadcaster, had written to The Times newspaper (17 September 1963) that unless the status of science and scientists were upgraded quickly, Britain would be ‘relegated to the status of a third-class power’. Hence the speed.
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Calnan, J. (1985). The Nationalization of Health Services and Federation of Postgraduate Institutes. In: The Hammersmith 1935–1985. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6358-3_6
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