A Historical Guide To Ngos In Britain: Charities, Civil Society And The Voluntary Sector Since 1945

A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945 Matthew Hilton, Nick Crowson, Jean-François Mouhot and James McKay A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain Also by the authors: Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nick Crowson & Jean-François Mouhot, The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) Matthew Hilton & James McKay (eds), The Ages of Voluntarism: How We Got to the Big Society (Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2011) Nick Crowson, Matthew Hilton & James McKay (eds), NGOs in Modern Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics since 1945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009) Matthew Hilton, Choice & Justice: Forty Years of the Malaysian Consumer Movement (Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia Press, 2009) Matthew Hilton, Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization (Ithaca, NY, 2009) Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel, Alain Chatriot & Matthew Hilton, (eds), Au nom du consommateur: la consommation entre mobilisation sociale et politique publique dans les pays occidentaux au XX siécle (Paris: La Decouverte, 2004) Matthew Hilton, Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement (Cambridge, 2003) Martin Daunton & Matthew Hilton, (eds), The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America (Oxford: Berg, 2001) Matthew Hilton, Smoking in British Popular Culture, 1800–2000 (Manchester, 2000) Nick Crowson, Britain and Europe: A Political History since 1918 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010) Nick Crowson, The Conservative Party and European Integration since 1945: At the Heart of Europe? (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006) Nick Crowson, The Longman Companion to the Conservative Party since 1830 (Harlow: Longman, 2001) Nick Crowson (ed.), Fleet Street, Press Barons and Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks, 1932–1940 (Cambridge University Press/Royal Historical Society, 1998) Nick Crowson, Facing Fascism: The Conservative Party and the European Dictators 1935–40 (London: Routledge, 1997) Jean-François Mouhot, Des Esclaves Energétiques: Réflexions sur le changement climatique (Seysel, Champ Vallon, 2011) Jean-François Mouhot, Les Réfugiés acadiens en France (1758-1785): l’impossible réintégration? (Québec: Septentrion, 2009; second edition, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012) Charles-François Mathis and Jean-François Mouhot, ed., Une Protection de l’Environnement à la Française (XIXe-XXe siècles) (Seysel: Champ Vallon, forthcoming) A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945 Matthew Hilton Professor of Social History, University of Birmingham Nick Crowson Reader in Contemporary British History, University of Birmingham Jean-François Mouhot Marie Curie Research Fellow, Georgetown University & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social, Paris James McKay Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham © Matthew Hilton, Nicholas Crowson, Jean-François Mouhot & James McKay 2012 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 ISBN 978-0-230-30444-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their right to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Des