Seminars
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
Patriotic Volunteers in Cold War Britain
Monday 22 February 2010, 5.30pm
Matthew Grant (University of Manchester)
The Culture and Politics of Hospital Contributory Schemes in Interwar Leeds and Sheffield
Monday 22 March 2010, 5.30pm
Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield)
Returned Volunteer Action from 1996 to 2006: An assessment of the life cycle
of the fly in the ointment of the British Volunteer Programme
of the fly in the ointment of the British Volunteer Programme
Monday 26 April 2010, 5.30pm
Steve Butters (RVA)
Making the English Patient (Consumer): Patient Groups and Health Consumerism, 1960s-2000s
Monday 24 May 2010, 5.30pm
Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
To Create Community: Some Contrasting Interwar Initiatives in the UK
Monday 21 June 2010, 5.30pm
Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library, London)
