The Voluntary Action History Seminar forms part of the Institute of Historical Research’s programme. Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars will be held in the Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
If you are interested in giving a paper as part of this series, please contact the seminar convenor, George Campbell Gosling, at gcgosling(@)brookes.ac.uk
Monday 27 September 2010, 5.30pm
Eglantyne Jebb, 1876-1928: unlikely children’s champion?
Clare Mulley
Monday 25 October 2010, 5.30pm
The ‘geography of the matter’: space and the language of location in interwar British female philanthropy
Eve Colpus, University of Oxford
Monday 22 November 2010, 5.30pm
Following ‘The Absent-minded Beggar’: a case-history of a fund-raising campaign of the South African War
Dr John Lee, University of Bristol
Monday 6 December 2010, 5.30pm
The Myth of the 1950s Housewife: Voluntary women’s organisations and the challenge to idealised domesticity in post war Britain
Dr Caitriona Beaumont, London South Bank University
