Download or read book Empire to Welfare State written by Trevor Owen Lloyd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the two great currents of change in 20th-century England--the decline from status as a major world power and the improvement of domestic living standards--this revised edition provides a comprehensive history of Britain from Campbell-Bannerman's emergence as Prime Minister to the urban rioting of October 1985.