Anna Bocking-Welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 2434401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Bocking-Welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bocking-Welch |
| SIGNATURE | BOCKING-WELCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7131-4256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women's campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945-1997
Petitioning provided a flexible repertoire for women’s political activity in the decades after 1945. Petitioning was a popular, widespread practice: aside from voting, signing a petition was one of the few political activities that engaged a majority of women. Building on a long tradition of British women as active petitioners, petitioning was used by a variety of different groups—local action groups, voluntary associations, political parties, pr…
Dear Oxfam’: Consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991
This article is about complaint-making as a form of political participation in the NGO sector.It focuses on public scrutiny of Oxfam's use of Barclays Bank during the anti-apartheid boycott of the bank in the 1970s and 1980s and analyses pro-boycott and anti-boycott correspondence to Oxfam during this period.The article uses the Barclays boycott case to illustrate the dynamics of public-institution relationships during a period in which the NGO s…
Youth against hunger: Service, activism and the mobilisation of young humanitarians in 1960s Britain
Youth have been a malleable resource in the fight against hunger, variously conceived as volunteers, political activists, global citizens and financial donors. This article uncovers competing (and sometimes complementary) visions for the participation of British youth in Youth Against Hunger, part of the United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign. In doing so, it makes two key contributions to the field. First, by uncovering the professionals an…
Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire
In September 1965, Charles Chislett, a retired bank manager from the industrial town of Rotherham in Yorkshire, set off from Heathrow Airport for a four-month Thomas Cook tour in East Africa. Travelling with his wife, Grace, and his 16-mm cine Kodak camera, he described his sense of anticipation for the journey ahead: Even in the days of jet travel the start of a journey to Africa ...is something of an event-at least to the average person. Add to…
Imperial Legacies and Internationalist Discourses: British Involvement in the United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign, 1960–70
Between 1960 and 1965, the British public raised almost seven million pounds to support the Freedom from Hunger Campaign (FFHC), a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization initiative that funded agricultural development projects across the underdeveloped world in an effort to ‘help the hungry to help themselves’. With the involvement of more than 100 countries and affiliated NGOs, the FFHC was by a considerable margin the largest humanit…
Imperial Legacies and Internationalist Discourses: British Involvement in the United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign, 1960–70
Between 1960 and 1965, the British public raised almost seven million pounds to support the Freedom from Hunger Campaign (FFHC), a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization initiative that funded agricultural development projects across the underdeveloped world in an effort to ‘help the hungry to help themselves’. With the involvement of more than 100 countries and affiliated NGOs, the FFHC was by a considerable margin the largest humanit…
Youth against hunger: Service, activism and the mobilisation of young humanitarians in 1960s Britain
Youth have been a malleable resource in the fight against hunger, variously conceived as volunteers, political activists, global citizens and financial donors. This article uncovers competing (and sometimes complementary) visions for the participation of British youth in Youth Against Hunger, part of the United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign. In doing so, it makes two key contributions to the field. First, by uncovering the professionals an…
Imperial Legacies and Internationalist Discourses: British Involvement in the United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign, 1960–70
Between 1960 and 1965, the British public raised almost seven million pounds to support the Freedom from Hunger Campaign (FFHC), a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization initiative that funded agricultural development projects across the underdeveloped world in an effort to ‘help the hungry to help themselves’. With the involvement of more than 100 countries and affiliated NGOs, the FFHC was by a considerable margin the largest humanit…
Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire
In September 1965, Charles Chislett, a retired bank manager from the industrial town of Rotherham in Yorkshire, set off from Heathrow Airport for a four-month Thomas Cook tour in East Africa. Travelling with his wife, Grace, and his 16-mm cine Kodak camera, he described his sense of anticipation for the journey ahead: Even in the days of jet travel the start of a journey to Africa ...is something of an event-at least to the average person. Add to…
Youth against hunger: Service, activism and the mobilisation of young humanitarians in 1960s Britain
Youth have been a malleable resource in the fight against hunger, variously conceived as volunteers, political activists, global citizens and financial donors. This article uncovers competing (and sometimes complementary) visions for the participation of British youth in Youth Against Hunger, part of the United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign. In doing so, it makes two key contributions to the field. First, by uncovering the professionals an…
Dear Oxfam’: Consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991
This article is about complaint-making as a form of political participation in the NGO sector.It focuses on public scrutiny of Oxfam's use of Barclays Bank during the anti-apartheid boycott of the bank in the 1970s and 1980s and analyses pro-boycott and anti-boycott correspondence to Oxfam during this period.The article uses the Barclays boycott case to illustrate the dynamics of public-institution relationships during a period in which the NGO s…
Women's campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945-1997
Petitioning provided a flexible repertoire for women’s political activity in the decades after 1945. Petitioning was a popular, widespread practice: aside from voting, signing a petition was one of the few political activities that engaged a majority of women. Building on a long tradition of British women as active petitioners, petitioning was used by a variety of different groups—local action groups, voluntary associations, political parties, pr…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)