If you’ve enjoyed or been inspired by what you’ve read on this site, please consider volunteering and help us further this great cause.
Ways to get involved
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Can you read your GP’s handwriting? Are you a time-travelling Victorian? If so, we have just the job for you. Transcription of old documents is crucial to furthering our research, ensuring consistency, legibility and ease of access for the public to these important records: if you’re an expert at de-tangling old handwriting, we need you.
Research
Our work first and foremost is about telling true stories, not porkies, of the past. We carefully research each and every one of our institutions, their staff and residents to ensure not only a factually accurate report, but an emotionally compelling narrative. So if you’re a keen writer or are looking to learn how to, please contact us below and begin your research journey.
Artifact Finder
Are you a dab hand at eBay? Maybe you’re an Amazon intellect? We’re looking for keen volunteers to search out invaluable items, online or off, so that we can continue to buy and preserve these for posterity.
Design
History isn’t always pretty, but websites can be. If you have any skills in web design, photography or visual communication, we’re be excited to hear from you.
Fundraising
None of the above would be possible without the tireless work of our fundraising team, ensuring a steady supply of coffee and, more importantly, the funding which keeps these projects moving. If you’re interested in joining us raising finances, please get in contact.
Why Volunteer with us?
The Institutional History Society is geared towards enriching communities around the world, devoting time and money to the study and dissemination of research into the lives of history’s forgotten peoples.
By volunteering with us, you will be supporting local communities, learning new skills, interacting with like-minded people and will have the opportunity to learn something new.
If you have any questions about any of the above, please drop us a message at institutionalhistory@gmail.com.