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Profile: Stella Benson, 1892-1933
Katrina Gulliver, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich The following is an extract from Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity between the War, which was published by...
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Empire and Mission: Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet?
Andrea Pass, University of Oxford In September 1947, amidst ‘the vast horror of fear and suffering’ in post-Partition Delhi, Dr Ruth Roseveare, an Anglican missionary of St Stephen’s Community, drew...
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Intercultural Transfer and the History of Social Housing
Thomas Adam, University of Texas at Arlington History has traditionally been written in the form of national history. From its establishment as an academic discipline at the beginning of the nineteenth...
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Scandinavian Housing and Britain’s ‘New’ Co-Operatives in the 1960s
Glen O’Hara, Oxford Brookes University The following is an edited extract from Glen O’Hara, Governing Post-War Britain: Paradoxes of Progress, 1951-1973, which was published this month by Palgrave...
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Charity Begins at Home? Transnational Histories of Humanitarianism
Kevin O’Sullivan, University of Birmingham & University College Dublin Comfortably ensconced in Oxford Brookes University for the recent VAHS New Researchers workshop on ‘transnational...
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Podcast: Fashioning Mothers of the Next Generation – Philanthropy in...
VAHS Seminar given by Elizabeth Harvey of UCL on 23 November 2009 Download: vahs-20091123_2.mp3 ABSTRACT This paper focuses on charitable activities towards destitute pregnant women and new mothers,...
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Podcast: Other Times, Other Places – Parallels from Historical Research and...
Institute for Voluntary Action Research in association with the Voluntary Action History Society on 7 December 2009 Georgina Brewis of the Institute for Volunteering Research Download:...
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Podcast: Returned Volunteer Action from 1966 to 2006
VAHS Seminar given by Stephen Butters (former trustee of the RVA) on 25 April 2010 Download: vahs-20100426_0.mp3 Returned Volunteer Action from 1966 to 2006: an assessment of the life cycle of the fly...
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Podcast: To Create Community – Some Contrasting Interwar Initiatives in the UK
VAHS Seminar given by Lesley Hall of the Wellcome Library on 20 June 2010 Download: vahs-20100621_0.mp3 ABSTRACT This paper will consider some contrasting approaches to meeting the need for community...
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Podcast: Eglantyne Jebb, 1876-1928 – unlikely children’s champion?
VAHS Seminar given by Clare Mulley on 26 September 2010 Download: vahs-20100927_0.mp3 ABSTRACT ‘To succeed in life, you must give life’ Eglantyne Jebb once wrote. But she herself did not give life in...
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Podcast: Following ‘The Absent-Minded Beggar’ – a case-history of a...
VAHS Seminar given by Dr John Lee of the University of Bristol on 22 November 2010 Download: vahs-20101122_0.mp3 ABSTRACT Kipling’s poem was written at the very beginning of the South African war to...
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Blogging the History of Voluntary Action: The First Year
George Campbell Gosling, University of Liverpool Welcome back! Over the summer we’ve been posting podcasts from our archive of seminar and conference recordings (which you can browse here), but now...
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Making Connections: From Transnational Histories to Epistemic Communities
George Campbell Gosling, University of Liverpool It has been nearly a year now since the Voluntary Action History Society put out a call for expressions of interest in forming a new informal...
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Silent Spring: The Book that Made the Modern Environmental Movement
Mark Wilson, Northumbria University Since the end of the Second World War, there has been a growing environmental consciousness, largely influenced by various environmental disasters, such as the...
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Sati and the Civilising Mission
Andrea Major, University of Leeds Lord William Bentinck (1774-1839) The prohibition of sati (widow-burning) by Governor General Lord William Bentinck in December 1829 is often held up as one of the...
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Feature: Anti-Apartheid Protest in Ireland
This month sees the publication of Kevin O’Sullivan’s new book ‘Ireland, Africa and the End of Empire: Small State Identity in the Cold War, 1955-75′ with Manchester University Press. For our February...
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Feature: The YMCA at War
For our April feature, Jon Weier considers the role of the First World War in the development of the YMCA. This case study fits with the increasing focus of historians on the importance of charity work...
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Charity and the First World War
Download: vahs-20121119.mp3 Leanne Green, VAHS Seminar, 19 November 2013 (slides) Advertising War: The Visual Imagery of Charity Campaigns in the First World War How do we remember the First World...
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Feature: Kaiserwerth Deaconesses
For our May feature, Carmen Mangion reports back for us from an academic conference in Germany on the history of deaconesses, religious women who were part of a transnational movement at the heart of...
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Historians and Charities
Fresh from talking to Save the Children about their founders and their early days, Emily Baughan writes for us on what historians and charities can learn from each other. When I first began research in...
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