This session will answer how freedom and slavery have contributed to the making of the modern world. One of the main questions in present day historiography is the role of slavery and slave trade in early modern globalization, world trade, development of modern labour regimes, migration and global economic divergence. Recent scholarship has begun to excavate the different histories of slavery across the globe. Beyond the Atlantic, new insights are being developed into the widespread character of slavery in the Mediterranean, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.

CEU's Department of History offers students interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on the history and culture of Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe in conjunction with the Ottoman, Middle Eastern, and larger Eastern Mediterranean world.

Migration and ethnicity in mining history (worldwide) - Call for papers for a Special Issue of the International Review of Social History 2015

Scoláire Staire
The Free Online Irish History Magazine
Volume 3, Issue 4, October 2013

Lockout 1913
A Special Issue on labour and class history to mark the centenary of Ireland’s best known industrial dispute

Editorial
Letters
News

Articles:
'Cork and the 1913 Lockout' - John O'Donovan
'Living in Plato's Cave: Class History in Ireland' - David Convery
Interview with Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913.
'Representing Class on Television' - David Toms
'PhD Diary' - Shay Kinsella

Call for Papers: Workshop on Historical Social Mobility in a Global Perspective

Date: 7 March 2014
Format: 1-day workshop
Venue: Department of Economic and Social History, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Organizers: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, and Jacob Weisdorf

Huddersfield Local History Society and the University of Huddersfield would like to invite you to the inaugural Luddite Memorial Lecture on Thursday 16 Jan 2014 at 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm) , Canalside East CEG/28

Dr Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University) will be speaking on

'Luddism through the Chartist-Looking Glass: Shirley and the Modernisation of Popular Protest'.

If you would like to attend this event please rsvp huddhistorysecretary@gmail.com.

The Marxists Internet Archive, Holt Labor Library and the Riazanov Library Project have completed another set of digitization of important journals published by North America revolutionary orgnizations:

The Agitator/The Syndicalist (1910 – 1913), the journal of the Syndicalist League of North America before WWI, it was William Z. Foster's first organization in the working class and represented the transplant of France's revolutionary syndicalism to the United States.

In 'The Dutch State as a Pimp', an (English-language) research article in the new issue of TSEG 10 (2013) 3, the history of the largest open-air brothel in the world, Campo Alegre on the Caribbean-Dutch island Curaçao is unfolded. Dutch authorities started this state brothel in 1949 in an attempt to stop the spread of venereal diseases.

Articles

Akin Sefer 'From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire' [summary]

Kevin Morgan 'Class Cohesion and Trade-Union Internationalism: Fred Bramley, the British TUC, and the Anglo-Russian Advisory Council' [summary]

Steven Parfitt 'Brotherhood From a Distance: Americanization and the Internationalism of the Knights of Labor' [summary]

Survey

Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global Survey is the title of IRSH special issue vol 58 (December 2013) edited by Clare Anderson, Niklas Frykman, Lex Heerma van Voss and Marcus Rediker.