The Civic Society Initiative (CSI), set up to assess the demand for a national body for Civic Societies in England, is looking for volunteers to help chart the history of the movement from the early 1840s to the present day.
CSI has secured a promise of some funding, and is seeking more, for a small project that will provide a history of the civic movement for the first time. It would like to set up a network of local volunteers (enthusiastic local historians involved with civic societies) able to give time and energy to the project. The final arrangements have still to be decided but it is likely to focus initially on two or three key periods and also develop the history of a number of individual societies in their wider context.
CSI would also welcome copies of local civic societies’ own publications or pamphlets on their history.
