VAHS New Researcher workshops have been held at universities across the UK on a wide range of topics. These have included child poverty, imperial benevolence and campaigning in contemporary society.
Workshop reports
University of York, February 2014
Oral Histories of Voluntary Action
The workshop was funded by the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York
University of Southampton, October 2012
Voluntary Work Workshop
The event was generously funded by the Work Futures Research Centre
Oxford Brookes University, March 2012
Making Connections: Transnational Networks in European Welfare History
in association with the Centre for the History of Welfare
See also Kevin O’Sullivan’s blog article
University of Huddersfield, March 2012
Gendering the History of Charity and Voluntary Effort
See also Kate Bradley’s blog article
University of Manchester, May 2011
‘Dependents of Welfare’: Voluntary Action and Child Poverty in Britain, 1800-2000
Queen Mary University of London, 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, November 2010
Public Health and Voluntary Action
Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, 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
