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Feature: Mental Illness and Childhood Migration: The Bright or Dark Side of Victorian Philanthropy?
Steven J. Taylor is a PhD researcher in the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Leicester. He discusses the challenges of locating —and interpreting— mental illness in charity archives and of assessing the ethics of philanthropic emigration schemes. My current research interests sit … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Steven J. Taylor, Uncategorized
Tagged children, disability, emigration, mental illness, youth
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Disability History Professional Workshop
Mike Mantin is a Research Fellow for the Wellcome Trust-funded project, Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields 1780-1948, at Swansea University. Here he shares his impressions of a recent multidisciplinary workshop on disability history. Disability history, by its … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events, Mike Mantin, New Researchers
Tagged disability, health, industry
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Feature: Exporting Visions and Saving Children- The Swedish Save the Children Fund
Ann Nehlin is a researcher at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. In March 2014, she gave a VAHS seminar on the relief efforts of the Swedish Save the Children Fund in the mid-twentieth century (listen to the podcast here). In … Continue reading
Posted in Ann Nehlin, Features, Research, Seminars
Tagged children, Save the Children, second world war, youth
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Time and Emotion Study at the Rowntree Cocoa Works in York
Michael Weatherburn is a PhD student at Imperial College London and a Byrne Bussey Marconi fellow at Oxford University, as well as an active New Researcher. On 12 June 2014, he will be delivering a VAHS seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in … Continue reading
Posted in Michael Weatherburn, New Researchers, Seminars
Tagged business history, private sector, Rowntree
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Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War
Peter Grant, Senior Fellow at City University London, and former chair of the Voluntary Action History Society, has just published a new book: Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War: Mobilizing Charity (Routledge, 2014). In this post, he … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Peter Grant
Tagged first world war, philanthropy, voluntary sector
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