In this episode Harriet and Grahame are joined by internationally renowned historian Dominic Sandbrook of the Rest is History podcast to discuss the making of the modern British tax base.
In part one they cover the period from 1945 to the mid-1960s, discussing the birth of the welfare state, the socialisation of the economy under Labour, the post war consensus, and the impacts these events had on the tax policy and structure of the tax system of the UK.
Dominic Sandbrook is a leading historian and author of a series of books on post-war Britain including Never Had it So Good, White Heat, Who Dares Wins and State of Emergency. He has made several TV Series for BBC (including “the 70s” and “the 80s with Dominic Sandbrook”). He is the co-presenter of the podcast The Rest is History with Tom Holland. He also writes for the Daily Mail, Sunday Times and has authored a highly successful series of children’s history books called “Adventures in Time”.