Past VAHS New Researcher events have included workshops and seminars, which since September 2009 have been made available as an online audio podcast.
Workshop reports
University of Manchester, 3 May 2011
‘Dependents of Welfare’: Voluntary Action and Child Poverty in Britain, 1800-2000
Queen Mary University of London, 19 March 2011
Youth, Recreation and Voluntary Action in association with the History Education Society and the British Society of Sports History
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 20 November 2010
Public Health and Voluntary Action
Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, 23 September 2010
Charity and the City: Medieval to Modern (programme)
Workshop report: pages 18-19 of Wellcome History, issue 46
University College London, June 2010
Imperial Benevolence: Voluntary Action and the British Empire
University of Warwick, March 2010
Charity Begins at Home: Approaches to the History of Domestic Space & Voluntary Action
University of Birmingham, November 2009
Campaigning in Contemporary Society: Histories and Policies
Oxford Brookes University, February 2009
Medicine and Charity in History
Seminar podcasts
10 October 2011
Sarah Flew (Open University)
Two Tier Philanthropy: The Philanthropists who Funded the Bishsop of London’s Fund and the Work that Fund Financed, 1863-1914
20 June 2011
George Campbell Gosling (Oxford Brookes University)
For the Sick Poor? Payment and Philanthropy and the pre-NHS Voluntary Hospital System, c. 1900-1948
14 March 2011
Raluca Musat
Transforming the Peasant: Mind, Body and Soul. Student Volunteers in Rural Romania, 1934-1938
14 February 2011
Charles Smith (University of Loughborough)
Gay NGOs and the formation of a ‘gay community’ in England, 1967-1985
25 October 2010
Eve Colpus (University of Oxford)
The geography of the matter: transnationalism and interwar British women’s philanthropy
23 January 2010
Oliver Blaiklock (IHR)
On the development of the Citizens Advice Bureau
23 November 2009
Elizabeth Harvey (UCL)
Fashioning Mothers of the Next Generation: Philanthropy in Birmingham and Sydney, 1860-1914
28 September 2009
Lynsey Cullen (Oxford Brookes University)
The First Lady Almoner: The Appointment, Position and Findings of Miss Mary Stewart at the Royal Free Hospital, 1895-1899
Ealier seminars not available as podcasts include:
15 June 2009
Stephen Soanes (University of Warwick)
‘Half-way Homes’: The Geographical Distribution of Voluntary Mental After-Care Charity in Relation to Public English Asylums, 1879-1939
18 May 2009
Bridget Yates (University of Gloucester)
“Treasuring things of the least”: Volunteer-rum Village Museums in England in the 1920s and 1930s
27 April 2009
George Campbell Gosling (Oxford Brookes University)
“Towards Unification”? The Hospital Contributory Scheme Problem in Bristol before 1948
13 October 2008
Ruth Davidson (Royal Holloway)
Women’s Health, Educational and Welfare work in Inter War Surrey
26 February 2008
Georgina Brewis (University of East London)
‘Fill full the mouth of famine’: Voluntary action in famine relief in India 1877-1900
17 March 2007
Eliza Filby (IHR)
‘Two nations, One Church?’ The Church of England, the welfare state and voluntarism under Thatcher
