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Disability and Voluntarism in British Policymaking

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Gareth Millward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine When the Disability Discrimination Act received Royal Assent on 8 November 1995, the United Kingdom finally had the anti-discrimination legislation which had been recommended by a government commission in 1981. But … Continue reading

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What is an archive?

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Gareth Millward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine What is an archive? I’m sure when many of us begin our research on a project we scout out potential sources of information. When working in the history of small organisations, … Continue reading

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Including the Excluded: Cataloguing the records of disabled children

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Janine Stanford, The Children’s Society Many readers of this blog will be aware of the difficulties facing voluntary sector archives. These challenges have been exacerbated by recent spending cuts, as Dr Georgina Brewis has discussed in this blog. In this … Continue reading

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