Since September 2009 podcasts of the Voluntary Action Seminars have been freely available to listen to at the Institute of Historical Research’s website.
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
26 October 2009
Timothy Cook
The History of the Carers’ Movement: A Remarkably Successful Story. Why?
23 November 2009
Elizabeth Harvey (UCL)
Fashioning Mothers of the Next Generation: Philanthropy in Birmingham and Sydney, 1860-1914
7 December 2009
Georgina Brewis (Institute for Volunteering Research) and John Hailey (City University)
Other Times, Other Places: Parallels from historical research and international practice
23 January 2010
Special Seminar Commemorating a Century of Councils for Voluntary Service
22 February 2010
Matthew Grant (University of Manchester)
Patriotic Volunteers in Cold War Britain
22 March 2010
Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield)
The Culture and Politics of Hospital Contributory Schemes
26 April 2010
Stephen Butters (former trustee of the RVA)
Returned Volunteer Action from 1966 to 2006: an assessment of the life cycle of the fly in the ointment of the British Returner Volunteer Programme
24 May 2010
Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Making the English Patient (Consumer): Patient Groups and Health Consumerism, 1960s-2000s
21 June 2010
Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library, London)
To Create Community: Some Contrasting Interwar Initiatives in the UK
