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Feature: 2012 – Another Grim Year for Voluntary Action
Last year, VAHS founder Colin Rochester and voluntary sector researcher Meta Zimmeck wrote a review of 2011, suggesting hard times might prompt a return to core values. For our January feature they...
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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 Other NHS
For our March feature, Clare Hickman of King’s College London writes for us on the National Health Society. She explains how this association of doctors and public health campaigners in the nineteenth...
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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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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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Feature: New Research on Save the Children
After winning the Economic History Society Bursary to attend our summer conference, Emily Baughan writes for our June feature on The Save the Children Fund, the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the...
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Feature: New Research on Oxfam’s Operation Oasis
Our July feature comes from Marie-Luise Ermisch of Canada’s McGill University, winner of the History Workshop Bursary to attend our international research conference this month. She writes on the topic...
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Feature: Barnardo’s Photographic Archive – wider issues
Our August feature brings a wide angle lens to a controversial issue at the moment. Photographic historian Michael Pritchard considers the worth of Barnardo’s extensive and historically valuable...
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Feature: The Domesticity of Victorian Children’s Homes
Our September feature is an edited version of the winning CGAP student prize paper at the VAHS’s summer 2013 fifth international research conference. ‘Institutional Homeliness: Charitable Initiatives...
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Feature: Anti-Slavery after Emancipation
Our November feature is an exclusive extract from Richard Huzzey’s ‘Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain’, published last year by Cornell University Press, in which he explains...
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Feature: The Influence of Disability Organisations
For our October feature article, Gareth Millward expands on his paper on how disability organisations have attempted to influence policymaking in Britain since the 1960s, which won the New Researchers...
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Feature: Armenia 1988
For our December feature article, Dr Jo Laycock of Sheffield Hallam University writes for us. As the 25th anniversary of the Armenian Earthquake approaches, she offers us a story of disaster and relief...
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Student Volunteering: The Long View
Today marks the start of Student Volunteering Week 2014, an annual celebration in England now supported by the National Union of Students (NUS) and Student Hubs. My new book argues that higher...
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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:...
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Feature: Exporting Visions and Saving Children- The Swedish Save the Children...
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...
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Steven J. Taylor is a PhD researcher in the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Leicester. He discusses the challenges of locating —and interpreting— mental illness in charity archives...
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Feature: Stop the Spread- The Disasters Emergency Committee, Ebola, and...
Andrew Jones is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham. His research examines the rise of modern humanitarian organisations in Britain, with a focus on those agencies connected to the...
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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...
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Feature: Charity in the Georgian Era: Lessons for Today?
Andrew Rudd is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter and has previously worked as the Parliamentary Manager at the Charity Commission. In this blog, he reflects on the lessons...
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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...
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