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date: 14 December 2024

Charity and Charitable Organizations. 

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
Author(s):
Bernard HarrisBernard Harris

The years since the 1980s have seen a substantial rise in the amount of attention paid to the role played by charity and philanthropy in the history of welfare provision. Within the Anglophone world, this has been reflected in the work of historians such as ... ...

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