Abstract
The history of the welfare state is usually treated in an a-geographical manner. A sketch of an argument that this perspective is limited prefaces an empirical assessment of the significance and uneven geography of local government expenditure on welfare services during the inter-war period. Data are presented in real terms (at 1975 prices) and used to describe the financial contribution to the provision of such services made by the local government system as a whole, by urban local government and by individual cities. The conclusion outlines a number of caveats that must surround the interpretation of the data but suggests that the findings are not only relevant to the work of geographers and historians in the field of health and welfare history but more generally that they indicate the need to supplement the history of the welfare state by its historical geography.
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