This book challenges scholarship which presents charity and voluntary activity during World War I as marking a downturn from the high point of the late Victoria

This book challenges scholarship which presents charity and voluntary activity during World War I as marking a downturn from the high point of the late Victoria

This book provides the historical background to the rise of the Big Society. Voluntarism has evolved over the last hundred years to adapt to changing circumstan

The First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with par

This book explores the rich history of voluntary action in the United Kingdom over the past 100 years, through the lens of the National Council for Voluntary Or