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Tag Archives: philanthropy
Feature: Philanthropy and the City of London
Rhodri Davies leads the Giving Thought policy programme at the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). He has just finished writing a book on the role of philanthropy in UK society from a historical and modern perspective, which is due to be … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Rhodri Davies, Uncategorized
Tagged London, philanthropy, religion
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Crystal Palace Triangle Project: Studying Voluntary and Community Action in Crystal Palace
Colin Rochester was the founding Chair of the Voluntary Action History Society and is a founding partner of the Practical Wisdom R2Z Research Consultants. He has worked in and with the voluntary sector for over forty years. Why on earth have my … Continue reading
Posted in Colin Rochester
Tagged London, philanthropy, voluntary sector, volunteering, Wolfenden Committee
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Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War
Peter Grant, Senior Fellow at City University London, and former chair of the Voluntary Action History Society, has just published a new book: Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War: Mobilizing Charity (Routledge, 2014). In this post, he … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Peter Grant
Tagged first world war, philanthropy, voluntary sector
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Forthcoming 2015: Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-1948
Last week I signed a book contract with Pickering and Chatto for their Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine series. I’ll now be spending the rest of this year working on the manuscript for my first monograph on … Continue reading
Posted in George Campbell Gosling, New Researchers, Research
Tagged consumerism, health, philanthropy, private sector, social work, voluntary sector
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Ada Chesterton’s I Lived in a Slum (1936) – sensationalist reportage or valuable historical testimony?
In this post, Kirsten Jarrett asks about the value of social investigations such as those of Ada Chesterton to historians. Are they sensationalist reportage or valuable historical testimony? Bearing in mind the numerous comparable contemporaneous texts, as well as her … Continue reading
Posted in Kirsten Jarrett, Research
Tagged campaigning, environment, London, philanthropy, social work
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