This issue of Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal aims to reflect on European colonialism in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, trying to explain, through current historical knowledge, the colonial fact —one, similar, transversal in its ideas and practices— structured in different territorial and national strands, and highlighting the deconstruction of myths, ideas and theories that have succeeded each other and metamorphosed to legitimise and justify colonial violence.

Dr Natalie Thomlinson is to deliver the Society’s third annual John L. Halstead Memorial Lecture at the University of Huddersfield on Saturday 9 November 2024. Titled Remembering the Strike: the miners’ strike of 1984-5 in popular memory, the lecture will draw on Dr Thomlinson’s research on women’s stories of the strike.

International Conference

Families and Historical Change
Relational Dynamics and Social Transformations. A global perspective, 13th-20th centuries

Albacete (Spain) on 7, 8 and 9 May 2025.

All the information on the event is available at the following link:

https://eventos.uclm.es/118494/detail/congreso-internacional-familias-y…

Linz/Austria, 26-28 September 2024

The 59th ITH Conference is organized by the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) and kindly supported by the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, the Chamber of Labour of Vienna, the Austrian Society for Political Education, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the City of Linz.

by Jean-Numa Ducange

Sources inédites, approche internationale…. LA biographie définitive du fondateur du parti socialiste.

Résumer la vie et l’œuvre de Jean Jaurès (1859-1914) en quelques lignes est une gageure. Normalien, philosophe, professeur, député (à seulement 26 ans), brillant orateur, journaliste éclairé ou encore patriote internationaliste, il est incontestablement une figure emblématique de l’histoire française et européenne.

The XVI Nordic Labour History Conference, taking place at Tampere University, Finland from 7th to 10th May 2025, continues the trajectory set forth by previous conferences in Copenhagen 2022 and Reykjavík 2016 of broadening the scope of labour history with new approaches. This includes defining what constitutes labour, examining where labour occurs and under what conditions, reconsidering the notions of the working class and ‘the worker,’ and acknowledging diverse forms of labour organising, collective action as well as working-class culture.

Lyon, 24-25 April 2025

Ces journées d’études visent à interroger, dans une approche pluridisciplinaire, les grandes dynamiques du travail agricole au prisme du genre en entendant cette approche dans toute sa dimension critique. Vous trouverez l'appel complet en pièce-jointe. 

University of Fribourg/Switzerland, 12-13 June 2025

Organisers: Laure Piguet, Léa Renard & Alix Heiniger

This issue of Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal aims to reflect on European colonialism in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, trying to explain, through current historical knowledge, the colonial fact —one, similar, transversal in its ideas and practices— structured in different territorial and national strands, and highlighting the deconstruction of myths, ideas and theories that have succeeded each other and metamorphosed to legitimise and justify colonial violence.