Afterword: Biography and Humanitarianism

Abstract

ABSTRACT This ‘Afterword’ summarises the main themes of the papers, especially the motivation for international humanitarianism and the difficulty of researching it given the paucity of sources, as is all too common with the histories of mainly female activities. Nevertheless, the authors have successfully achieved invaluable analyses of the lives of a fascinating variety of women, and one man, working for deprived people across the world.