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Gendering the History of Voluntary Action
Kate Bradley, University of Kent Gender is central to an understanding of voluntary action history, as it confronts us the moment we ask the question of who does what to whom. In one respect, gender...
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Podcast: The First Lady Almoner – The Appointment, Position and Findings of...
VAHS Seminar given by Lynsey Cullen of Oxford Brookes University on 27 September 2009 Powerpoint slides Download: vahs-20090928.mp3 ABSTRACT The work of the Almoning profession within the medical...
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Podcast: The History of the Carers’ Movement – A Remarkably Successful Story....
VAHS Seminar given by Timothy Cook on 26 October 2009 Download: vahs-20091026_2.mp3 ABSTRACT The carers’ movement is today one of the most successful of all the voluntary sector initiatives that began...
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Podcast: Fashioning Mothers of the Next Generation – Philanthropy in...
VAHS Seminar given by Elizabeth Harvey of UCL on 23 November 2009 Download: vahs-20091123_2.mp3 ABSTRACT This paper focuses on charitable activities towards destitute pregnant women and new mothers,...
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Podcast: A Century of Councils for Voluntary Service
VAHS Special Seminar commemorating a century of Councils for Voluntary Service on 23 January 2010 Speakers: Keith Laybourn (University of Huddersfield), Colin Rochester (Roehampton University), Oliver...
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Podcast: Following ‘The Absent-Minded Beggar’ – a case-history of a...
VAHS Seminar given by Dr John Lee of the University of Bristol on 22 November 2010 Download: vahs-20101122_0.mp3 ABSTRACT Kipling’s poem was written at the very beginning of the South African war to...
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Podcast: The Myth of the 1950s Housewife – Voluntary women’s organisations...
VAHS Seminar given by Caitriona Beaumont of London South Bank University on 6 December 2010 Download: vahs-20101206_0.mp3 Powerpoint slides ABSTRACT The changing role of women in post war British...
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Charity in the Novels of Charles Dickens
Frank Christianson, Brigham Young University “What connexion [sic] can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have,...
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Waifs and Strays at Christmas
Claudia Soares, University of Manchester Waif Girl in Bristol, c. 1890 For many nineteenth-century voluntary welfare organisations, there was a competitive market to obtain charitable donations. As...
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Feature: New Research on Save the Children
After winning the Economic History Society Bursary to attend our summer conference, Emily Baughan writes for our June feature on The Save the Children Fund, the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the...
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