Very cool project in #aidhistory @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social @kevinbrushett.bsky.social
"Rather than reflexively rushing to defend USAID and the FCDO, reformers need to acknowledge the long history of harm caused by international aid and take the opportunity to empower alternatives to the global humanitarian and development systems." #aidhistory
This is helpful #aidhistory
Talking now abt Hobhouse's work after the #FWW in Germany in establishing a feeding scheme (as a result of the British blockade) #Heroes2019 #AidHistory
Hobhouse is visiting the white camps as the representative of the South African Women's and Children's Relief Fund #Heroes2019 #AidHistory
MT @ICRC: Historians rejoice! Our AV archives are now freely available online: http://avarchives.icrc.org https://t.co/gG2WyCi8Nw #aidhistory
#ww1 & 1920s @afsc_org photos, films & documents now online http://afsc.org/content/world-war-i-and-its-aftermath https://t.co/pZch1d4VVF #aidhistory #fww #Quaker
MT @HistEdSocUK CfP Charity & Children's Literature, special issue networks.h-net.org/node/18732/discussions/9... HT @sianllroberts #histed #histchild #aidhistory
Catch up w #ww1 #Quaker Dr @Hilda_Clark_ on transport issues & helpful soldiers www.whitefeatherdiaries.org.uk/not-killing-people-prese... via @wfdiaries #histmed #aidhistory
Take out techniques assoc w settlement movement, in which many were involved, to #humanitarian work w ppl on Continent #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
Transmission of #humanitarian work thru generations, btwn local & global, & as part of lineage of #Quaker service #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
UK & US #humanitarian workers in #ww1 operated differently, but Barrow keen to foster shared mission #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
The dignity of work & the rhetoric&enablement of self-help important for Barrow & other #ww1 #humanitarian wmn workers #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
Florence stressed working w ppl/'recipients' on a personal level, some links made in #ww1 ctd for yrs afterwards #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
Many in Friends War Victims Relief Committee, incl Florence Barrow. For her,& others, #humanitarian work was lifelong #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
Final presentn, by wonderful @sianllroberts, spking abt #Birmingam #Quaker women & transnational #humanitarian relief #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
CfP 'A Quest for #Humanitarian Effectiveness?' (Manchester, Sept 2015), interdisc inc #aidhistory http://bit.ly/1CxUhF7 HT @HCRInstitute