The HOPE project brings together a partnership of thirteen European social history institutions with highly significant but scattered collections, comprising to date at least 3 million digital items (pictures, books, archival documents, sound, moving image et cetera). The project will make these items available through Europeana, the European digital library. The collections will also be searchable via LabourHistory.net.
The latest issue of TSEG, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis (vol 9 no 2), presents research articles on Film Distribution in Ghent, Belgium, and on Luxury Product Consumption in 18th century Cape Colony.
The latter paper by Johan Fourie and Jolandi Uys ascertains the nature, growth and distribution of luxury good ownership in the Cape Colony. The survey reveals a marginal increase over the course of the eighteenth century in household ownership.
I am deeply saddened to tell you that that Mike Nash, the Head of the Tamiment Library, passed away Tuesday evening (July 24). This comes at the end of long and difficult illness, at a time when he seemed to be near fully recovered. Many of us spoke with him only yesterday and found him optimistic, full of plans, and counting the days until he could get back to the Tamiment Library and his colleagues. This is tragic news; we lose a friend and colleague whose contributions to the libraries, the university, and to scholarship are too numerous to count.
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double
issue] has just been posted on the site.
You can get to the contents
here http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/kd52m9 or read the full pdf here http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/j0zqnm.
Contents:
Exhibition, The People's History Museum, Manchester, UK
30 June 2012 — 24 February 2013
The Temperance Movement, in which people took the pledge not to drink alcohol, effectively began in the North West and played an important part in the lives of many in the region. Despite this, it is a little remembered aspect of our history.
Call for papers - International Conference : II International Conference Strikes and Social Conflicts, May 2013
II International Conference Strikes and Social Conflicts - Combined approaches to conflicts (Eighteenth century to the present)
Maison des Sciences de L'Homme
Dijon, France
15, 16, 17, 18 May 2013
Organization:
Maison des Sciences de L'Homme
International Association Strikes and Social Conflicts
Convenors: Serge Wolikow, Jean-Marc Bourgeon, Nélia Roulot, Raquel Varela, Sjaak van der Velden
Amsab-nieuwsbrief 7e jaargang, nr. 5, juli 2012
Jules Van Biesbroeck jr. in Ons Huis
Op 14 juli 2012 om 11 uur openen ABVV, Linx+ en Amsab-ISG in Ons Huis de tentoonstelling Jules Van Biesbroeck jr. (1873-1965): tekenaar – schilder – beeldhouwer – ontwerper. Iedereen van harte welkom!
Boekenverkoop
Newsletter, n. 6, 20 June 2012
Per uscire dalla crisi. Democrazia e bene comune.
Scuola di cultura politica 2012-2013
Gli elementi essenziali per orientarsi nella crisi che sta cambiando il mondo.
Otto moduli distribuiti in otto fine settimana dall'ottobre 2012 al maggio 2013.
Le iscrizioni si aprono il 1° settembre 2012
Online il nuovo "Testo ritrovato"
Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre
RAPPORTS SUR LES PRINCIPES DE MORALE POLITIQUE
Call for Applications
The International Research Center "Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History" at Humboldt University in Berlin, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) invites scholars to apply for 10 to 15 international research fellowships (senior scholars and postdoctoral candidates) for the 2013-2014 academic year. Applications are due in Berlin on 31 August 2012.
