Abstract
This article provides a personal narrative of a historian who pioneered research on volunteering, wartime patriotic funds and the voluntary principle in Australian history. It explores the tenacity often required to make inroads into new areas of academic discourse, especially when there are no international studies with which to compare and when there is an apparent lack of primary source material. Finally the article restates the importance of history as a discipline in showing us that many current ideas and theories about the third sector are not new, but rather reshaped and remodelled for contemporary contexts.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Third sector reveiw |
Publication status | Published - 2003 |
Keywords
- nonprofit organizations
- Australia
- World War, 1939-1945
- historiography
- volunteers
- voluntarism