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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.

Convenor: George Campbell Gosling (Oxford Brookes University)

Venue: Low Countries Room, IHR

Time: Monday 5.30pm
Spring Term 2010
23 January Professor Keith Laybourn (University of Huddersfield)
The Guild of Help and the New Edwardian Philanthropy, c.1904-1919

Colin Rochester and Meta Zimmeck (Roehampton University)
The Service of the Community is best fulfilled by Communities of Service: A Hundred Years of the London Voluntary Service Council

Oliver Blaiklock (IHR)
Voluntary Action and the Second World War: The Creation of the Citizens Advice Bureau

John Lansley
Liverpool CVS: From Mercantile Establishment to Social Entrepreneurial Agency
Special Seminar on the Councils for Voluntary Service
Please note: this session takes place on Saturday 23 January 2010, 10.30am in the Germany Room, 2nd floor, IHR

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22 February Matthew Grant (University of Manchester)
Patriotic Volunteers in Cold War Britain
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22 March Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield)
The Culture and Politics of Hospital Contributory Schemes in

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Summer Term 2010
26 April Steve Butter (former trustee of the RVA)
Returned Volunteer Action from 1996 to 2006: an assessment of the life cycle of the fly in the ointment of the British Returner Volunteer Programme
24 May Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Making the English Patient (Consumer): Patient Groups and Health Consumerism, 1960s-200s
21 June Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library, London)
To Create Community: Some Contrasting Interwar Initiatives in the UK

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