Voluntary Action History
Archived podcasts from the IHR's Voluntary Action History seminar series
29 Jan 2018
Building bridges of trust: child transports from Finland to Sweden during WWII
Ann Nehlin, University of Stockholm
6 Nov 2017
Witness Seminar: Working with voluntary organisations since 1975
Shirley Otto, Independent Researcher
23 Oct 2017
Richard Titmuss and Voluntary Action: From Problems of Social Policy to The Gift Relationship
John Stewart, Glasgow Caledonian University
12 Jun 2017
Citizens of the world: Birmingham Quaker women, transnational voluntary service, and the meaning of citizenship
Sian Roberts (University of Birmingham)
3 Apr 2017
Book Launch Seminar: Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48
George Campbell Gosling (University of Wolverhampton), Pamela Cox (University of Essex), Colin Rochester (Practical Wisdom R2Z), Pat Thane (King's College London), Mathew Thomson (University of Warwick)
20 Mar 2017
The Politics of Poverty: The Child Poverty Action Group, 1965-2015
Dr Ruth Davidson (King's College London)
6 Mar 2017
The first decade of the Overseas Doctors’ Association in the UK (1975-1985)
Julian M Simpson (University of Manchester)
20 Feb 2017
Witness Seminar: My Life in Volunteering in Three Stories
Dr Justin Davis Smith (Cass Business School)
13 Jun 2016
The Untold Story of the St Pancras House Improvement Society: More than Charismatic Leadership
Dr Michael Passmore
16 May 2016
'Not just a "club for girls" but "a women's movement": the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), citizenship and voluntary action in Britain during the interwar years
Dr Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank University)
15 Feb 2016
Humanities activists and humanitarian aid in the First World War: G.M. Trevelyan, the British Red Cross and the Italian wounded
Marcella Sutcliffe (University of Cambridge)
18 Jan 2016
A Study of Philanthropy: the Charitable Account Books of Lord Overstone, 1844-1883
Sarah Flew (LSE)
30 Nov 2015
I never wanted to participate in a charity: Women's relationship to voluntary work within the UK Women's Liberation Movement
Dr Bridget Lockyer (Canterbury Christ Church University)
16 Nov 2015
Witness Seminar: A Place in a Community
Michael Locke (Ex University of East London and Volunteering England)
15 Jun 2015
Volunteer Tourism: Development, Altruism or Narcissism?
Jim Butcher (Canterbury Christ Church University)
27 Apr 2015
Who decides how 'safe' is 'safe'? The pertussis vaccine scare and the Vaccination Damage Payments Act 1979
Gareth Millward (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
16 Mar 2015
'People of our condition have not any right to expect stability, or certainty of subsistence' - Middle-class men's experience of receiving charity in mid-nineteenth century England
Marian Flint
2 Feb 2015
Saving Winchester: Voluntary Societies, Historic Buildings and Urban Redevelopment
Michael Nelles (University of Southampton)
14 Nov 2014
Historicizing Citizenship in Cold War Britain: Obligations, Voluntary Action, and Exclusion
Dr Matthew Grant (University of Essex)
27 Oct 2014
Learning from Britain's development NGOs: a case study of Oxfam's Education Department during the Development Decades 1960-1980
Dr Don Harrison (University of Bristol)