Publications of the NGOs in Britain team

Principal academic publications

• Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson & Jean-Francois Mouhot, The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2013)

• Matthew Hilton, Nicholas Crowson, Jean-Francois Mouhot & James McKay, A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012).
  [Collection of date/encyclopedia designed to be essential reference guide for researchers]

• Matthew Hilton & James McKay (eds), The Ages of Voluntarism: Evolution and Change in Modern British Voluntary Action (Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2011). (see reviews)

• Matthew Hilton, 'Politics is ordinary: non-governmental organisations and political participation in contemporary Britain', Twentieth-Century British History, 22, 2011, pp. 230-268.
  [Sets out at an early stage the key arguments and theoretical insights to later appear in Politics of Expertise]
• Nick Crowson, Matthew Hilton, and James McKay (eds), NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-state Actors in Society and Politics Since 1945 (Palgrave, 2009). (see book presentation/flyer containing an abstract and a list of chapters and contributors, as well as reviews)

 

Electronic sources

• NGO Datasets
  [Contains raw data plus additional material for everything in A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain, freely available on the project website]
• DANGO Online searchable database of the archives of Non-Governmental Organisations in the UK
  [This was first launched under another project but has been maintained by the Leverhulme Project: contains data on 1,978 NGOs]

Policy documents

• Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson and Jean-Francois Mouhot, Civic Participation and Social Responsibility (2010)
  [Briefing paper for meeting with Strategy Unit of Cabinet Office, 15 June 2010]
• Matthew Hilton, 'Charities, voluntary organisations and non-governmental organisations in Britain since 1945', in Armine Ishkanian & Simon Szreter (eds.), The Big Society Debate: A New Agenda for Social Welfare  (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012) pp. 81-92
• Matthew Hilton, 'Is civic society really in decline', Birmingham Brief, June 2010
• James McKay, 'Lobbying - a necessary part of politics', Birmingham Brief, October 2011

Collaborative articles

• Matthew Hilton, Jean-Francois Mouhot and James McKay, 'Le greenrush. Essai d'interpretation de la <bulle verte> au Royaume-Uni dans les annees 1980', Vingtieme Siecle, 113, January-March 2012, pp. 67-81.
• Matthew Hilton, Jean-Francois Mouhot and James McKay, 'Les ONG et les mouvements de protection de l'environnement au Royaume-Uni: une autre maniere de faire de la politique?', Histoire & Societes, 27:1, 2009, pp. 58-89.

Witness seminars

• Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson & Herjeet Marway (eds), 'The voluntary sector in 1980s Britain', Contemporary British History, 25:4, 2011, pp. 499-519.
• James Mckay and Jean-Francois Mouhot (eds), The Green Breakthrough of 1989: Meaning, significance and legacy (London: Institute of Contemporary British History, 2012)

Further single-authored articles

• Matthew Hilton, 'International aid and development NGOs in Britain and human rights since 1945', Humanity, Winter 2012, special issue on social rights edited by Paul Betts, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, Andreas Eckert, Sandrine Kott and Malgorzata Mazurek.
• Nicholas Crowson, 'Introduction: The Voluntary Sector in 1980s Britain', Contemporary British History, 25:4, 2011, pp. 491-498.
• Nicholas Crowson, 'Revisiting the 1977 Housing (Homeless Persons) Act: Westminster, Whitehall and the Homelessness Lobby', Twentieth-Century British History, 2012.
• James McKay, 'Voluntary politics: the sector's political function from Beveridge to Deakin', in Melanie Oppenheimer & Nicholas Deakin (eds.), Beveridge and Voluntary Action in Britain and the Wider British World (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
  
   

 

 

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