It is World Book Day again, so I thought I would do a follow-up to a blog I did last year on “The 11 Best Books on the History of Philanthropy”. Partly because that post proved to be quite popular, and also because I have come across a few more great philanthropy books recently that […]
Philanthropy has a long history in the UK. From the mid 1500s, the modern notion of philanthropy, based on secular concerns about poverty and the social issues of the day emerged to replace the medieval concept of almsgiving, which was all about securing your immortal soul by carrying out your religious duty to give via […]