Care, free

This week: a brief history of social care reform, some disputed English monarchs and a cool mapping tool that turns cities into art.

In 2010, an ambitious young health secretary named Andy Burnham (whatever happened to him?) put forward a white paper outlining how the fourth term Labour government would create a National Care Service by 2016. That service would be funded by social insurance, and would provide people with care “free when they need it in return for a compulsory contrib…