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400 YEARS OF CHARITY A conference on the history of voluntary action University of Liverpool 11-13 September 2001 Outline proposals are invited for papers on the history of charity and voluntary action for a conference to be held at the University of Liverpool on 11 - 13 September 2001. The conference is being jointly organised by the Voluntary Action History Society, the School of History at the University of Liverpool and the Centre for Voluntary Organisation at the LSE. It is being timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Elizabethan Statute of 1601 which laid the foundations for the modern framework of charity and the 2001 United Nations International Year of the Volunteer. Whilst proposals on any aspect of the history of voluntary action will be considered, we particularly welcome contributions on the following themes: * relations between charities and the State * case studies of individual charities and voluntary organisations * the lives of individual philanthropists and voluntary sector activists * trends in volunteering, voluntary action and giving * mutual aid and self-help * international comparative research The conference is open to both academics and practitioners from the UK and overseas Conference fee to be confirmed, but will be in the region of £150 residential and £100 non-residential Outline proposals of no more than one page should be sent by 1 September 2000 to Pat Starkey School of History University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3BX email [log in to unmask] For further information please contact Pat Starkey at the above address or Justin Davis Smith at The Institute for Volunteering Research, 8 All Saints' Street, London N1 9RL. email [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%