Toynbee Hall, London | 25 November 2010 | 10.30-4.30  

This one-day workshop will consider the history of volunteering and social action by university students in Britain. We welcome proposals for papers on any aspect of the history of student social service, volunteering or social action. Topics could include university settlements and missions; workcamps, work with unemployed, general strike; wartime volunteering; campaigning; Student Community Action.

Professor Carol Dyhouse will talk on the history of the RAG movement and Mike Day will present new research on the history of the National Union of Students.

 Please send a 250 word abstract to Georgina Brewis, georgina.brewis@volunteeringengland.org by 30 September 2010. If you are interested in attending this event please register your interest at the same address. The event will be free to attend and there will be some travel bursaries available for presenters. Please ask for details.

STUDENTS, VOLUNTEERING AND SOCIAL ACTION: 1960-2000
WITNESS SEMINAR
24 June 2010 | 2.00-5.00 | NCVO, Regent’s Wharf, London
Register for free at http://groupspaces.com/studenthubs/item/63438

A witness seminar brings together key individuals in a chosen field to discuss and debate issues as they remember them.


This witness seminar will consider the history of volunteering and social action by university students in Britain between 1960 and 2000. Topics will include Student Community Action, NUS, Student Volunteering England and campaigning.

Confirmed witnesses include Alan Barr - 1960s; Mike Day - 1970s; Mike Aitken - 1980s.

This is part of the Students, Volunteering and Social Action: Histories and Policies project convened by Student Hubs and the Institute for Volunteering Research. For more details see www.studentvolunteeringhistory.org

We are pleased to report that we have recently received two grants from the Economic History Society and St John's College, Oxford. This will fund meetings of the working group, our witness seminar and one-day symposium in November.