Hello,

I am an archivist and member of the Kate Sharpley Library and am doing a
research project into the history and current collection practices of archives
and libraries collecting anarchist material. I would very much appreciate your
participation in the below survey, you answers will help give me a much better
picture of the universe of current practices. Please also consider spreading
this questionnaire far and wide. The results of this survey and research will
be published and shared with all interested parties.

Copies of archival and audio-visual items from the anti-apartheid and southern Africa solidarity collection of the IISH will be transferred to South Africa. The archival transfer project is funded by the Dutch embassy in Pretoria and runs from October 2012 until April 2013. The main recipients will be the Archives of the African National Congress, the South African History Archives (SAHA) and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, both in Johannesburg.

On Monday, November 5, 2012 the Open Society Archives at Central European University in Budapest is organizing a one day workshop to exchange knowledge in the field of digitizing cultural heritage collections in non-state institutions in Central Europe, and to share best practices on digital collection management, digital preservation and providing online access.

Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 03.04.2013-06.04.2013, Salzburg

Deadline: 10.12.2012

European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)

11.09.2014-14.09.2014, Paris

[Die französisch- und deutschsprachige Ankündigung findet sich weiter unten.]

University of Warwick; Humanities Research Centre Warwick
19.04.2013, Coventry, University of Warwick, Campus

Deadline: 30.11.2012

Outil de communication graphique et plastique, l’affiche est l’un des supports privilégiés de l’écrit dans la rue.

Aujourd’hui très largement associée aux messages publicitaires, elle fut avant tout l’expression d’une parole publique forte. Nombreux sont les exemples qui ont marqué l’histoire : des affiches révolutionnaires de 1789 à celles de mai 68, les écrits politiques n’ont eu de cesse de recouvrir les murs de la ville, faisant de la rue le terrain d’affirmation de la démocratie.

Call for Papers, deadline 30 November

During the past 250 years, agrarian labor regimes throughout much of the world have undergone radical changes, with an impact on billions of people. The transformation of the global countryside might indeed be one of the most significant historical processes of the modern era.

Colóquio Internacional "Educação Libertária: 100 anos da Escola Moderna de São Paulo", organizado na Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo, a ser realizado entre o 5 e 9 de novembro de 2012.

Saiba mais no site: http://coloquioeducacaolibertaria.wordpress.com/

Dear all

Please read this important article by Hilda Kean about the destruction of archives at Ruskin College, pioneer of working-class education, as it moves to a new site.
http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/whose-archive-whose-history-destruction-of-archives-at-ruskin-college-oxford/

Despite an offer from another archive (the Bishopsgate Institute) to take the material, it is being destroyed--some has already gone.