BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM HENRY, 1st BARON BEVERIDGE OF TUGGAL, 1879-1963
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1879 · died 1963
William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, was a British economist and Liberal politician who played a central role in designing the British welfare state. His 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services served as the basis for the welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.
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Papers, including extensive personal and professional correspondence; diaries; manuscripts, notes and drafts for his published work and official reports; broadcasts, lectures and speeches; correspondence and memoranda written as director of the London School of Economics (1919-37) and as Master of University College Oxford (1937-62).
Beveridge Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Correspondence and papers, including correspondence with Janet Mair, later Beveridge.
Beveridge Supplement, BLPES
Papers relating to Coal Commission, 1925-6.
Beveridge Coal Commission Papers, BLPES
Papers relating to Ministry of Reconstruction, 1917-19.
Beveridge Reconstruction Papers, BLPES
Papers relating to Price History, 1923-63.
Beveridge Price History Papers, BLPES
Papers relating to unemployment, 1886-1914.
Beveridge Unemployment Papers, BLPES
Papers relating to coal crisis, 1919-21.
COLL MISC 0006, BLPES
Papers relating to Alcohol Enquiry Committee, 1926-7.
COLL MISC 0007, BLPES.
Memorial of a visit to the USA 1933.
COLL MISC 008, BLPES
Papers relating to Family Allowances, 1924-30.
COLL MISC 0009, BLPES
Lecture notes on the Civil Service, 1923-7.
COLL MISC 0010, BLPES
Drafts and working papers for Tariffs: The Case Examined, 1929-31.
COLL MISC 0011, BPLES
Papers relating to Tithe Redemption Committee, 1921-3.
COLL MISC 0012, BPLES
Capital and Labour Committee papers 1916, COLL MISC 0013, BLPES
Unemployment Insurance Committee papers 1911-15, COLL MISC 0014, BPLES
Agricultural Policy Committee papers 1915-16, COLL MISC 0015, BLPES
Food Control papers 1915-20, COLL MISC 0092, BLPES
Munitions Labour papers 1915-16, COLL MISC 0144, BLPES
Minutes and memoranda of Academic Freedom Committee, 1933-9, COLL MISC 0683
Letters to Manchester Guardian, 1925-56, Manchester Guardian Archive, John Rylands Library, Manchester
Correspondents
EDWIN CANNAN, Correspondence 1931-2, Cannan Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CURTIS, Correspondence 1938-49, Lionel Curtis Papers, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford
ARCHIBALD VIVIAN HILL, Correspondence 1934-61, Hill Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
ROY FORBES HARROD, Correspondence 1934-52, Harrod Papers, British Library
NICHOLAS KALDOR, Correspondence 1933-6, 1943-5, Kaldor Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Correspondence 1910-39, Keynes Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge
EDWARD MAYOW HASTINGS LLOYD, Correspondence 1920-1, Lloyd Papers, BLPES
WILLIAM PIERCY, Correspondence 1920-3, Piercy Papers, BLPES
ARNOLD PLANT, Correspondence 1918-72, Plant Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1923-7, Robbins Papers, BLPES
GRAHAM WALLAS, Correspondence 1920-32, Wallas Papers, BLPES
SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB, Correspondence 1916-40, Passfield Papers, BLPES
FEDERAL UNION, Correspondence 1939-41, Federal Trust Papers, BLPES
SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF SCIENCE AND LEARNING, Correspondence 1933-63, Society for the Protection of Science and Learning Papers, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Printed material
ODNB; Proceedings of the British Academy 49 (1963); José Harris, William Beveridge: A Biography (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977; revised edition 1997); Ralf Dahrendorf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE): a history of the London School of Economics and Political Science (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Portraits
NPG; LSE; Dahrendorf, LSE (1995)