Welcome to the online home of modern British historian George Campbell Gosling. This is where you’ll find my personal blog, details of my publications and the main projects I’ve worked on, including histories of healthcare & the NHS, the Child Poverty Action Group and charity shops.
My last book was on the mechanisms for and meanings of paying the hospital before NHS. My next one will be a collection of essays on histories of retail and community and after that a monograph on the history of charity shops.
I have taught at the universities of Liverpool, Warwick, Oxford Brookes, City, University of London and I am currently Programme Leader for History at the University of Wolverhampton.
I am currently co-convenor for Contemporary British History seminars at the IHR in London and one of the convenors of the Charity, Welfare and Humanitarianism strand at the Social History Society annual conference. I am also a former SHS Communications Officer and a former trustee of the Voluntary Action History Society.
A note on names: My married name is Gosling-Page, though I continue to use Gosling professionally, along with my middle name Campbell when I publish. They are all me.
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