Georgina Brewis reflects on the ‘Charity Archives and Records Now’ event on 13 May 2026.
Category: Events
Organisational records: An interdisciplinary summer school in July 2025
Find out about the July 2025 summer school ‘Researching voluntary and community organisations, charities, NGOs and philanthropy using organisational records’
UK Youth and the archives and records of youth charities: Preservation, access and research
Georgina Brewis outlines an event marking the transfer of the transfer of the records of the National Association of Boys’ Clubs (NABC) to join the rest of the UK Youth archive at the Cadbury Research Library.
Valuing Students’ Union Records and Archives
Students’ unions in the UK are multi-faceted organisations that support their members in a variety of different ways and draw on a range of organisational traditions. Developing at higher education institutions (HEIs) from the late nineteenth century, students’ unions today…
Voluntary Action History Society Conference
Paul Beard reports back on a fascinating few days in Liverpool discussing voluntary action history. The 7th International conference of the Voluntary Action History Society (VAHS) took place at the University of Liverpool between 13th and 15th July 2022 and…
From immersive exhibit to virtual tour: Using archive images to tell the history of charity shopping
On 18 November 2020 the project is running a virtual tour of charity shop history as part of the Being Human Festival of the Humanities. Before COVID changed everything, the ARP had been selected to feature as part of the British…