Old women in twentieth-century Britain

Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 207-231

  Thane, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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2. Pat Thane, 'The debate on the declining birth-rate in Britain: the "menace" of an ageing population, 1920s-1950s', Continuity and Change 5 (1990), no.2 pp.283-304.
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6. P. Thane, 'Old age: burden or benefit?', in H. Joshi, ed., the Changing Population of Britain (Oxford, 1989), pp.56-71
7. Pat Thane, 'Contributory versus non-contributory old age pensions, 1878-1908', in Pat Thane, the Origins of British Social Poliqy (London, 1978), pp.84-106
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