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Industrial Co-Operation: Bridging Voluntary Action and Business

Michael Weatherburn, Imperial College London This April saw the European Social Science and History Conference come to Glasgow. The topics covered by speakers were diverse, but there were two panels that especially caught my eye. One was on co-operatives and … Continue reading

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Locating Female Philanthropy: Past and Present

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Eve Colpus, University of Oxford You don’t have to venture far today to see or hear about philanthropy. Placed at ‘the heart of the big society’ by leading coalition politicians in December 2010, as we head into 2012 it is … Continue reading

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Charity and Commerce: The Other Moving Frontier

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George Campbell Gosling, Oxford Brookes University Readers of this blog will be familiar with hearing the voluntary sector referred to as the ‘third sector’. It is not clear whether the public or private sector comes first, but there is no … Continue reading

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Business archives and voluntary action

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Tosh Warwick, University of Huddersfield In last month’s VAHS blog ‘Voluntary sector archives: A hidden casualty of the cuts?’ Georgina Brewis pointed to the threat posed to charity records by financial cuts and more practical considerations of space. While the … Continue reading

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