The Voluntary Action History Society organises a wide range of events.
Our most regular events are our series of monthly seminars at the Institute of Historical Research in London. These bring together historians and other academic researchers with voluntary sector practitioners to hear about the latest research in the field.
At various locations around the UK, we also organise one-day workshops for New Researchers and for those working on transnational histories of voluntarism. These are in collaboration with a range of universities other partners.
We also host a major international research conferences, most recently in July 2011 at the University of Kent. The next conference is being planned for the summer of 2013.
Between 2009 and 2011, the Economic History Society provided funding for a series of New Researcher workshops. These offered an opportunity for postgraduate and early career researchers to share their experiences of working in this area with each other and leading scholars. We hope to hold more such workshops in collaboration with other groups in the future.
One-off events have also included the 2008 symposium on William Beveridge, which led to the publication of an edited volume with Manchester University Press in 2011.
