Historian Emily Baughan on two books chronicling the immense impact of the NHS and the welfare state on the lives of Britons; and a new film explores Patricia Highsmith’s hinterland.
’The Welfare State generation: Women, agency and class in Britain since 1945’, by Eve Worth
‘Poster, protests and prescriptions: Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain’, edited by Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand
‘Loving Highsmith’, a film by Eva Vitija
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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