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- Title
Identity Crisis.
- Authors
Higgs, Edward
- Abstract
Examines the history of identification systems in modern Great Britain. Purposes of the identification of every individual within a community; Requirements under the National Registration system set up in 1916 that was considered by Fabian Socialist Beatrice Webb and Register General Sylvanus Vivian in 1918; Reason behind the rejection of the recommendations of the committee of Webb regarding the system; Significance of national registration and identity cards to the military preparedness, welfare provision and economy of the country during the Cold War.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; IDENTIFICATION; RECORDING &; registration; WEBB, Beatrice, 1858-1943; VIVIAN, Sylvanus; FABIANISM; IDENTIFICATION cards; MILITARY readiness; COLD War, 1945-1991
- Publication
History Today, 2004, Vol 54, Issue 12, p16
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article