Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-University Bochum 06.09.2012-08.09.2012, Bochum, House for the History of the Ruhr, Clemenstr. 17-19, 44789 Bochum

Network "Radical Americas"/ Institute of the Americas, University College London 28.01.2013-29.01.2013, London, Institute of the Americas, University College London
Deadline: 30.09.2012

"To be a radical is no more than... to go to the roots".
José Martí, "A la raíz" in Patria (26 August, 1893)

Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen; Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz; Stiftung Demokratie Saarland; Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarbrücken 23.11.2012-25.11.2012, Otzenhausen, Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen Europahausstraße 35, 66620 Nonnweiler, Fon +49 6873 662-0, Fax +49 6873662-150

Ein Tagungsbericht von Sarah Graber Majchrzak.

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.

Call for Contributions

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.