Publications
Below is a list of my publications, ordered by publication type.
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Books
Gareth Millward. Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Alex Mold, Peder Clark, Gareth Millward and Daisy Payling. Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-war Britain, 1948-2012. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Gareth Millward. Vaccinating Britain: Mass Vaccination and the Public since the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.
Book Chapters
Gareth Millward. "Diphtheria to corona: Vaccinating the welfare state." In Sarah Crook and Sarah Kenny (eds), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary History. London: Routledge, submitted; forthcoming 2025.
Gareth Millward. "Writing everyday life into law: the 'household duties test', disabled women, social security and assumed normality." In Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney and Daisy Payling (eds), "Everyday Health", Embodiment, and Selfhood since 1950. Manchester: Manchester University Press, in production; forthcoming 2024.
Gareth Millward. "Sick notes are a waste of time: Doctors' labour and medical certification at the birth of the NHS." In Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand (eds), Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions: Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, pp. 54-75.
Gareth Millward. "A history with web archives, not a history of web archives: A history of the British measles-mumps-rubella vaccine crisis, 1998–2004." In Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Web History. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2018, pp. 464-78.
Journal Articles
Gareth Millward. "'Its many workers and subscribers feel that their services can still be of benefit': Hospital Leagues of Friends in the English West Midlands, c. 1948-1998." Social History of Medicine 36, no. 3 (2023): 433-455.
Hannah Elizabeth, Gareth Millward and Alex Mold. "'Injections-while-you-dance': Press advertisement and poster promotion of the polio vaccine to British publics, 1956-1962." Cultural and Social History 16, no. 3 (2019): 315-36.
Martin Gorsky and Gareth Millward. "Resource allocation for equity in the National Health Service 1948-89: An advocacy coalition analysis of the 'RAWP'." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 43, no. 1 (2018): 69-108.
Gareth Millward. "'A matter of commonsense': The Coventry poliomyelitis epidemic 1957 and the British public." Contemporary British History 31, no. 3 (2017): 384-406.
Gareth Millward. "A disability act? The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and the British government's response to the pertussis vaccine scare." Social History of Medicine 30, no. 2 (2017): 429-47.
Gareth Millward. "Social security policy and the early disability movement: Expertise, disability and the government, 1965-1977." Twentieth Century British History 26, no. 2 (2015): 274-97.
Reports
Gareth Millward. Statutory Sick Pay Inquiry: Response to Call for Evidence. 2023.
Evidence submitted to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee and published as part of their inquiry into Statutory Sick Pay.
Gareth Millward. "Digital barriers and the accessible web: Disabled people, information and the internet." London: Institute of Historical Research, 2015.
Gareth Millward and Peter Border. "Assessing capacity for work." (PN 413). London: Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, 2012.
PhD Thesis
Gareth Millward. Invalid Definitions, Invalid Responses: Disability and the Welfare State, 1965-1995. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2014.