23 January 2012 For our blog this week, Dr Kirsten Jarrett reviews Ada Chesterton’s 1926 account of two weeks living as a destitute woman in the capital. You can read and comment on In Darkest London: Investigating Destitution in the 1920s now.
20 January 2012 We are pleased to announce of details of the first event of our new transnational histories network. Professor Virginia Crossman will be hosting two workshops this year at Oxford Brookes University. The first will be on Wednesday 21 March. For more details see the Making Connections page of this website.
16 January 2012 Last year saw the first screening of Ken Loach’s controversial 1969 Save The Children documentary. For our blog this week Dr Leo Enticknap explores the ethical and archival issues around this case in Saving the Image of Save The Children.
9 January 2012 The case for a transnational approach to the history of voluntary action is made in our blog this week by Dr George Campbell Gosling and Dr Melanie Oppenheimer. This ties in with our new transnational histories network. If this is an area of reseach that interests you then you can read and comment on Transnational Histories of Voluntary Action now.
2 January 2012 As we start the new year, Colin Rochester and Meta Zimmeck consider for our blog the past year of challenges the voluntary sector and what the coming year might hold. You can read and comment on That Was The Year That Was: Farewell to 2011! now.
28 December 2011 We are pleased to announce the new members of VAHS New Researchers for 2012. In an open letter, the new chair of the group, Dr George Campbell Gosling, announces the new line up that will continue to promote postgraduate and early career research into the history of charity and civil society. For more information on the group and its activities, see the new researchers section of this website.
27 December 2011 The final part of Professor Hugh Cunningham’s series for BBC Radio 4 on the history of philanthropy was broadcast last night. You can listen now on the iplayer to The Two New Philanthropies and get more information and hear the whole series here. Have your say by reading and commenting on Professor Cunningham’s blog piece for us: How New is the New Philanthropy?
26 December 2011 The second part of our blog’s festive double bill is now available to read and comment on. Dr Andrea Pass examines what Christmas was like for missionary women in Carols and Curry? Christmas in the Indian Mission Field. You can also read Kathleen Vongsathorn’s discussion of the importance of Christmas celebrations at a mission leprosy settlement in Uganda.
22 December 2011 Episode 2 of Hugh Cunningham’s BBC Radio 4 series on the history of philanthropy is available to listen to on the iplayer. You can hear Victorian Philanthropy and Its Crtitics and you can read and comment his blog piece for us: How New is the New Philanthropy?
19 December 2011 In the first of our blog’s Christmas in the Missions double-bill, Kathleen Vongsathorn considers the social, religious, and charitable importance of Christmas celebrations at a mission leprosy settlement in Uganda.
15 December 2011 A conference will be held at Bangor University in September 2012 on ‘Community, Cohesion and Social Stability: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives’. The call for papers is out now. For more details see the event page on this website.
13 December 2011 Professor Hugh Cunningham’s BBC Radio 4 series ‘How New is the New Philanthropy?’ began last night and is available to listen to via the BBC iplayer. You can listen now and let us know your thoughts by commenting on his blog piece for us last week.
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