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Findings from VAHS’s survey of members and friends: ‘Good to know you exist!’ Meta Zimmeck
For some time VAHS has wanted to be in closer touch with our members and friends in order to assess the strengths and weaknesses of what we are doing and, if possible, to make changes that might make our activities … Continue reading
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Celebrating 25 years of studying the history of voluntary action: VAHS’s Conference 2016
Colin Rochester first published the following blog detailing next year’s conference on HistPhil.org, a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with a particular emphasis on how history can shed light on contemporary philanthropic issues and practice. In … Continue reading
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Second Canadian Workshop on the History of Humanitarian Aid
Aid practitioners, archivists, and academics recently came together in Canada to explore how the history of humanitarian aid is researched, collected, and taught. Will Tait, a PhD candidate at the University of Carleton, shares his thoughts on the event and its outcomes. The … Continue reading
Feature: Philanthropy and the City of London
Rhodri Davies leads the Giving Thought policy programme at the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). He has just finished writing a book on the role of philanthropy in UK society from a historical and modern perspective, which is due to be … Continue reading
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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
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Tagged children, disability, emigration, mental illness, youth
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