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Launching the Campaign for Voluntary Sector Archives
Georgina Brewis, Institute of Education A new Campaign for Voluntary Sector Archives was launched last Monday at the House of Lords. The Campaign has grown out of concern for the neglect of archives...
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Disability and Children: The Children’s Society, 1889 to 1979
Janine Stanford, The Children’s Society The Children’s Society Archive represents one of the voluntary sector’s most important archive collections and services. It is an in-house archive managed by The...
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The Campaign goes on
Readers of this blog may have noticed a recent rare good news story in the press about charity archives. After several years of protracted negotiation, the records of leading development organisation...
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Historians and Charities
Fresh from talking to Save the Children about their founders and their early days, Emily Baughan writes for us on what historians and charities can learn from each other. When I first began research in...
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Feature: Barnardo’s Photographic Archive – wider issues
Our August feature brings a wide angle lens to a controversial issue at the moment. Photographic historian Michael Pritchard considers the worth of Barnardo’s extensive and historically valuable...
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Unexplored Riches in Medical History at The Children’s Society Archive
In this guest post, Janine Stanford updates us on the Unexplored Riches in Medical History Project at the Children’s Society Archive. The Children’s Society’s Unexplored Riches in Medical History...
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Feature: Community building in Notting Hill: online archive for nursery centre
Michael Locke is an independent writer, researcher and adviser, formerly employed by the University of East London, Volunteering England and NCVO. In this blog, Mike reports on a new archive of...
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Bethany Rowley is a PhD student at the University of Leeds. Her research examines religious charity and the experience of disabled ex-servicemen in inter-war Britain. She is a team member of the...
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Recording Leisure Lives: Cultures, Communities and Class in Leisure in 20th...
© Bolton Council. From the Humphrey Spender Worktown Collection of Bolton Library and Museum Services A Tenth Anniversary One Day Conference at the University of Bolton, presented by the University...
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Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change.
Bob Snape is a Reader in Leisure and Sport and also Head of the Centre for Worktown Studies at the University of Bolton. His research centres on the history of leisure 1850–1939. He has published on a...
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