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Voluntary Action History

Venue: Online-via Zoom
Time: Mondays 18.00
Convenors: Mike Locke (University of Kent) (mike.s.locke@gmail.com) and Jayne Lacny (University of Kent)
Co-convenors: Ellie Munro (Sheffield Hallam University), Bob Snape (University of Bolton), Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich), Mandy Barrie (University of Greenwich), Rob Piggott (University of Huddersfield), Paul Beard (UCL), Marta Starostina ( University of Birmingham) and Meta Zimmeck (Practical Wisdom R2Z).

Term 1- Autumn 2022

Writing Histories of Transnational Activism

Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University)

Online- via Zoom

An ‘article of luxury and need’: voluntary action, military welfare and the provision of cigarettes to soldiers during the First World War

Michael Reeve (Bishop Grosseteste University)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2023

‘There is scarcely a greater plague that can infest society than swarms of beggars’: the rise and fall of the mendicity society movement in Ireland, 1815–45

Ciarán McCabe (Queen’s University Belfast )

Online- via Zoom

Road Building in the UK over the last 50 years: the influence of campaigning

Helen Baczkowska (writer and ecologist), John Stewart (Campaign for Better Transport), Rebecca Lush (Transport Action Network)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Saving the other at home and overseas: philanthropy and disability in nineteenth-century Britain and its Empire

Esme Cleall (University of Sheffield)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3: Spring/Summer 2023

Voluntarism in an Age of Empire: Rethinking development in colonial India

Sandip Kana (KCL)

Online- via Zoom

Lacemaking, Women and Humanitarian Aid

Wendy Wiertz (University of Huddersfield)

Online- via Zoom

Women’s Voluntary Activism in Early-Twentieth-Century Cambridge

Mary Joannou (Anglia Ruskin University)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

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