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…
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Introducing the ‘Charity and voluntary sector archives at risk’ PhD project
My name is Paul Beard, and I am the PhD student for ‘Charity and voluntary sector archives at risk: Conceptualising and contextualising a neglected archives sector’.
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…
Charity archives in a time of crisis?
Charity records and archives are always at risk, but the multiple and intersecting crises of 2020 are adding to this strain.
Please help!
We are delighted that we have a further five years of support from the British Academy to continue the project’s work until at least 2024 – watch this space for some new developments in 2020, including a podcast series on…
JUST LAUNCHED: Records Management Improvement Toolkit
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new and updated online toolkit to help charities, voluntary and community groups with records management. Record keeping is an important but often overlooked part of running a voluntary organisation. It is vital…