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Voluntary Action History
This seminar series is organised by the Committee of the Voluntary Action History Society (VAHS). VAHS aims to advance the historical understanding and analysis of voluntary action through seminars, occasional conferences and symposia. Please see http://www.vahs.org.uk for further information.
For podcasts of past Voluntary Action History seminars, see http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/voluntary-action-history-seminars
Convenor: Marian Flint m-flint@tiscali.co.uk
Co-convenors: George Campbell Gosling (Oxford Brookes University), Georgina Brewis (Insitute of Education), Peter Grant (Cass Business School), Jenny Harrow (Cass Business School), Sarah Lloyd (University of Hertfordshire), Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck), Alison Penn, Colin Rochester (Roehampton University), Bill Rushbrooke, Stephen Soanes (University of Warwick), Brenda Weeden (University of Westminster) and Meta Zimmeck
Venue: Torrington Room (104), 1st floor, South block, Senate House
Time: Monday 5.30pm
| 16 January | Professor Berry Mayall (Institute of Education) English children's work during the Second World War |
| 30 January | Gareth Millward (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Disability and Voluntarism in Britain, 1965-1995: an effective force in policy making? |
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13 February cancelled |
Please note: this session has been cancelled.
The speaker who had been engaged for this session has, with regret, been obliged to withdraw. |
| 27 February | Professor Nigel Goose (University of Hertfordshire) The Historical Geography of Philanthropy in England and Wales |
| 12 March | Dr Laura Balderstone (University of Liverpool) Mapping Membership: A social and spatial analysis of associational activity, 1950-2005 |
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| 21 May | Professor Chris Woolgar (University of Southampton) Food alms for the poor in late medieval England |
| 18 June | Dr Jennifer Jones (La Trobe University, Australia) Saving Aboriginal Children: Save the Children Aboriginal Preschools, white volunteers and the rural colour bar |
