On 30 October we launched our new catalogue of JD Bernal's peace collection. Thanks to sponsorship from the late Beryl Huffingly and the hard work of Project Archivist Joseph Dance, this internationally significant archive on the world peace movement can now be searched on our online catalogue here. At the launch event daughter Jane Bernal paid tribute to her brilliant, endlessly curious father whose commitment to the peace movement knew no bounds.

Visualising Class

Class and the Visual Arts Today (1980-2019)

The University of Manchester, November 15, 10am-18.30pm

Room G7, Bridgeford Street Building.

Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens. Studies have been conducted both at a macro and a micro level, at a global and at a local scale and with regional and national approaches aimed at analysing cultural, social and economic phenomena associated with the world of work. Yet, there is still new ground to be covered.

Mostra “Meccanica e passione. Giuseppe De Vecchi e le origini dell’industria dell’auto a Milano”

12 novembre/12 dicembre 2019 | Sesto San Giovanni

The present call of paper sollicits chapter proposals to complete a peer-reviewed collection of original research papers on the topic “Western Hegemonies and their Contestations”. This collection is inspired from the international and multidisciplinary conference “The End of Western Hegemonies ?” held in Jyväskylä, Finland, in June 2019, organized by The West Network. The proposed chapters must fall within one of the following categories:

The 8th Biannual conference of the European Early American Studies Association invites established scholars, post-doctoral students and graduate students to re-examine the fundamental concept of Atlantic history in light of current research on the themes of colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions, from 1492 to 1848. It is also an opportunity to examine the history of transformations in early America and, broadly, the early modern world, by taking fuller account of scholarship on the politics of primitive globalisation.

L’Institut CGT d’histoire sociale est heureux de vous inviter au colloque pluridisciplinaire,

organisé par le Centre d’histoire sociale des Mondes contemporains (Université Paris 1), le Laboratoire Triangle (Université Lyon 2) et lui-même,

les 21 et 22 novembre 2019