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Tag Archives: voluntary sector
Feature: Community building in Notting Hill: online archive for nursery centre
Michael Locke is an independent writer, researcher and adviser, formerly employed by the University of East London, Volunteering England and NCVO. In this blog, Mike reports on a new archive of community history, which covers the ground of his witness … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, Features
Tagged education, social work, voluntary sector, witness, youth work
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Critical Thinking About Voluntary Action and Its History
In this month’s blog post, Colin Rochester introduces a journal which will take the study of voluntary action in a new direction. A group of academics and practitioners –and some who combine both roles– have decided to do something about their … Continue reading
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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