Mobilizing charity: non‐uniformed voluntary action during the First World War
Journal: City Research Online (City University London)
Year: 2012

This study proposes that the voluntary sector in the UK underwent major managerial and state‐directional change during the period of the Great War, as a concerted response to but also enabling it to make important contributions to the war effort. It provides an important challenge to that scholarship which presents charity and voluntary activity in this period as marking a downturn from the high point of late‐Victorian philanthropy, as representing far less serious activities than those undertak