of a social historian
Originally posted on the VAHS blog on 25 February 2013 I gave a seminar at Glasgow Caledonian University last week, which gave me a chance to return to some of my doctoral research into the voluntary hospitals that provided around one-third of Britain’s hospital beds before they were nationalised in the new National Health Service in 1948. …
Originally posted on the VAHS blog as Charity and the Coalition: Whatever Happened to the Big Society? on 30 April 2012 What’s wrong with the Big Society? It’s dead, that’s what wrong with it. It’s not just resting. I’m an historian, so I know a dead policy initiative when I see one and and the …
Originally posted on the VAHS BLOG Readers of this blog will be familiar with hearing the voluntary sector referred to as the ‘third sector’. It is not clear whether the public or private sector comes first, but there is no doubt these are the other two and that both come before voluntarism. Geoffrey Finlayson influentially …
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