Category Archives: Events

A Different Kind of Conference: some reflections from Colin Rochester, one of the founders of the VAHS

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Kerrie Holloway

Those who haven’t taken part in any of the six previous international conferences on the history of voluntary action may not be expecting the distinctive experience of the seventh event scheduled for the University of Liverpool in July 2020. Yes, … Continue reading →

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Second Canadian Workshop on the History of Humanitarian Aid

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Blog Editor

Aid practitioners, archivists, and academics recently came together in Canada to explore how the history of humanitarian aid is researched, collected, and taught.  Will Tait, a PhD candidate at the University of Carleton, shares his thoughts on the event and its outcomes. The … Continue reading →

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Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Disability History Professional Workshop

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Blog Editor

Mike Mantin is a Research Fellow for the Wellcome Trust-funded project, Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields 1780-1948, at Swansea University.  Here he shares his impressions of a recent multidisciplinary workshop on disability history. Disability history, by its … Continue reading →

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Feature: Exporting Visions and Saving Children- The Swedish Save the Children Fund

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Blog Editor

Ann Nehlin is a researcher at the University of Stockholm in Sweden.  In March 2014, she gave a VAHS seminar on the relief efforts of the Swedish Save the Children Fund in the mid-twentieth century (listen to the podcast here).  In … Continue reading →

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Time and Emotion Study at the Rowntree Cocoa Works in York

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Blog Editor

Michael Weatherburn is a PhD student at Imperial College London and a Byrne Bussey Marconi fellow at Oxford University, as well as an active New Researcher. On 12 June 2014, he will be delivering a VAHS seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in … Continue reading →

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