Social history
25 May 2010
The Origins of a Coming Ideal: Meritocracy in Britain 1750-1850
Penelope J. Corfield (Emeritus Professor)
25 Apr 2010
Returned Volunteer Action from 1966 to 2006: an assessment of the life cycle of the fly in the ointment of the British Returner Volunteer Programme
Stephen Butters (former trustee of the RVA)
24 Feb 2010
Trust – a Global History
Geoffrey Hosking (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies)
23 Jan 2010
Special Seminar Commemorating a Century of Councils for Voluntary Service
Keith Laybourn (University of Huddersfield); Colin Rochester (Roehampton University); Oliver Blaiklock (IHR); John Lansley (former employee of the LCVS)
7 Dec 2009
Other Times, Other Places: Parallels from Historical Research and International Practice
Georgina Brewis (Institute for Volunteering Research) and John Hailey (City University)
2 Dec 2009
Roundtable discussion of Michael Roper's The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War (Manchester, 2009)
Peter Barham, Deborah Thom (Robinson College, Cambridge), Sally Alexander (chair, Goldsmiths, University of London), with a response by Michael Roper (University of Essex).
23 Nov 2009
Fashioning Mothers of the Next Generation: Philanthropy in Birmingham and Sydney, 1860-1914
Elizabeth Harvey (UCL)
27 Sep 2009
The First Lady Almoner: The Appointment, Position and Findings of Miss Mary Stewart at the Royal Free Hospital, 1895-1899
Lynsey Cullen (Oxford Brookes University)
2 Jul 2009
09. Poor man, sick man, beggarman, thief: plebeian lives and the making of modern London
Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire)
2 Jul 2009
11. Women and the city: investment, banking and the spread of women’s financial activity in early eighteenth-century England
Anne Laurence (Open University)
2 Jul 2009
10. The rich becoming the poor: from riches to rags in the Georgian workhouse
Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle)