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		<title>News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6 March 2010 Booking is now open for the VAHS Research Conference which will be held 14-16 July 2010 in partnership with the Centre for Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social Justice at the University of Kent. See the conferences page for more details. The full conference programme is also now available to download.
25 January 2010 Students, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2010/01/news/</link>
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		<title>News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to announce that seminar has become the first at the IHR to offer podcasts of its monthly papers. The first four podcasts are now available on the IHR website Click here for podcasts
 

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Patriotic Volunteers in Cold War Britain
Matthew Grant, University of Manchester
Monday 22 February 2010, 5.30pm

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		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2008/08/seminar-programme-2008-2009/</link>
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		<title>VAHS Third International Research Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Wednesday 16 &#8211; Friday 18 July 2008
University of Liverpool
Keynote Speakers
Professor Miri Rubin: &#8216;Help and Need in Medieval Europe&#8217;
Dr Linda Mahood: &#8216;Feminism and Voluntary Action: The Life of Eglantyne Jebb,
Founder of Save the Children&#8217;
 
The final conference programme is now availalble to download. Final Conference Programme
 
Conference excursions
Social Policy Tour of Liverpool
This short evening field trip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2008/03/william-beveridges-voluntary-action-60-years-on/</link>
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		<title>Seminar Programme 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5.30pm
Wolfson Room, Institute for Historical Research, Senate House, London
Retirement from the noise and hurry of the world? The experience of
almshouse life 1650-1850
Alannah Tomkins
University of Keele
Almshouse accommodation comprised a heterogenous range of residential charity founded by testamentary endowment, royal edict and a variety of other means.  Ideally it offered free housing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2007/09/next-seminar-tuesday-9-october/</link>
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		<title>Call for Papers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voluntary Action History Society Third International Research Conference
University of Liverpool 16-18 July 2008 
Proposals for papers are invited on any aspect of the history of charity, voluntary organisations and volunteering. 
Themes will include: Health, hospitals and hospices &#8211; Education
Families and children &#8211; Environment and conservation &#8211; Housing
Religious missions &#8211; Sport and leisure &#8211; Archives and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2007/07/38/</link>
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		<title>Next Seminar: Tuesday 12 June</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Re-discovering sources for voluntary action history:
Toynbee Hall and its archives 
Followed by a voluntary action history walking tour of the East End
Kate Bradley
Centre for Contemporary British History, University of London
Date: Tuesday 12 June 2007
Time: Talk will begin at 5.30pm; Walk will leave from Toynbee Hall at 6.30pm
Venue: Barnett Research Centre, Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street,
London [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2007/05/next-seminar-tuesday-12-june/</link>
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		<title>Next Seminar: Tuesday 8 May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rowton and the Poor Man’s Hotel (1885 – 1995): An experiment in Conservative philanthropy
John Mason
Date: Tuesday 8 May 2007, 5.30pm
Venue: CIVITAS 77 Great Peter Street, Westminster, London SW1P 2EZ
Rowton Houses present an unusually clear-cut example of a single idea with no apparent or immediate parallel. The houses were not built by a chocolate or soap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2007/03/next-seminar-tuesday-8-may/</link>
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		<title>Next Seminar: Saturday 17 March</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Religion and Voluntary Action in Britain 1960s-1980s
Make love not war: The impact of the 1960s on The Salvation
Army in the UK
Helen Cameron, Wesley Centre, Oxford Brookes University
&#8216;Two nations, One Church?&#8217; The Church of England, the welfare state and voluntarism under Thatcher
Liza Filby, Centre for Contemporary British History 
Saturday 17 March 2007, 10.30am &#8211; 1pm
Institute of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2007/02/next-seminar-saturday-17-march/</link>
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		<title>Next Seminar: Tuesday 6 February 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Order of St John: its pathway to First Aid
Jonathan Morgan, Archivist, Dr William&#8217;s Library
The paper will look at how the Order of St John came to be perhaps the foremost voluntary organisation undertaking first aid training and practice. Historical continuity is vital to the Order, more so than to probably any other voluntary organisation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2006/11/next-seminar-tuesday-6-february-2007/</link>
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		<title>Next Seminar &#8211; Saturday 11 November</title>
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Volunteering and the First World War

Time: 10.30am &#8211; 1pm (refreshments available from 10.15)
Venue: Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ  (Room 3002)
Mobilizing Charity: Voluntary Action in the First World War
Peter Grant
The First World War saw the greatest act of volunteering ever witnessed in this country. Over two-and-a-half million men volunteered to fight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vahs.org.uk/2006/10/next-seminar-saturday-11-november/</link>
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