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Professor Julie-Marie Strange's Outputs (4)

Humanitarian accountability, bureaucracy, and self‐regulation: the view from the archive (2015)
Journal Article
Roddy, S., Strange, J., & Taithe, B. (2015). Humanitarian accountability, bureaucracy, and self‐regulation: the view from the archive. Disasters, 39(s2), s188-s203. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12153

This paper contains a systematic exploration of local and national archives and sources relevant to charities and humanitarian fund appeals of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras (1870–1912) in Great Britain. It shows that the charitable world and... Read More about Humanitarian accountability, bureaucracy, and self‐regulation: the view from the archive.

The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870–1912 (2015)
Journal Article
Roddy, S., Strange, J.-M., & Taithe, B. (2015). The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870–1912. Journal of British Studies, 54(1), 118-137. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2014.163

This essay sheds new light on the supposedly familiar world of Victorian philanthropy by considering charity in relation to market regulation. Focusing on the “charity fraud,” we suggest that in the shaping of this exclusive and paradoxical marketpla... Read More about The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870–1912.