50th anniversary of the Society for the Study of Labour History marked with journal special issue

The Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) marks its 50th anniversary in May 2010 with a special issue of its journal Labour History Review on Making History: Labour Organizations Since 1960. The issue comprises of four articles tracing the development of labour history societies in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales:

Introduction: Fifty Years On
John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, John Halstead and David Martin

Call for Papers for the
I. Workshop on "Dimensions of Socialisms"
November 18-19, 2010

International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Founding Meeting of the Network "History of Societies and Socialisms"

Deadline for Proposals: May 20, 2010

Goals & Intentions:

IALHI is proud to announce an ambitious project: HOPE. Within this project, co-financed by the European Commission, thirteen IALHI members are going to make their digital collections available.

HOPE - Heritage of the People's Europe

Thirteen IALHI members are going to make their digital collections available in the framework of an ambitious new EU project: Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE).

The worker's collective representation. Normative procedures in France, 1936-1968

Comité d'histoire des Administrations chargées du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Formation Professionnelle (CHATEFP), Ministère du Travail, de la solidarité et de la fonction publique
Deadline: 01.09.2010

CFP: "Women of the world": Women's International Activism in National Contexts from the 19th to the mid-20th Century

UFR Angellier "Langue, Littérature et Civilisations des pays anglophones", Université de Lille 3 13.05.2011, Lille
Deadline: 15.07.2010

This workshop is to focus on the articulation between women's international mobilisations and the national contexts in which they are set. What we wish to cover is the strategies of local, regional, national or supra-national women's organisations towards these new forms of international activism.

zwischenWelten: Frauen in Migrationsprozessen (18.-21. Jh.)

Frauen & Geschichte Baden-Württemberg e.V.; in Zusammenarbeit mit der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg, Bad Urach 25.06.2010-27.06.2010, Haus auf der Alb, Hanner Steige 1, 72574 Bad UrachDeadline: 01.06.2010

Talk on the C19th gangs of Manchester and Salford

On Wednesday 12 May at 6pm the Working Class Movement Library will host the latest in a series of talks accompanying the exhibition 'Invisible Histories: Salford's Working Lives'.

In 'The Gangs of Victorian Salford and Manchester' Andrew Davies will tell tales of scuttling and knife-crime on 19th century streets, and ask what can be learned from Victorian attempts to deal with youth gangs.

50th anniversary of the Society for the Study of Labour History marked with journal special issue

Call for articles
Perseu: história, memória e política
Number 6, 2010 (Portuguese)

The Centro Sergio Buarque de Holanda (CSBH) was established by Fundação Perseu Abramo as a centre for Brazilian Worker's Party history and memory. It produces Perseu: história, memória e política, a history peer-reviewed journal that diffuses researches and reflexions about the left political wing in Brazil and abroad.

Forschungsbericht: Das kurze "1968" zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Erinnerungskultur: Neuere Forschungen zur Protestgeschichte der 1960er-Jahre

Von Philipp Gassert, Philologisch-Historische Fakultät, Universität Augsburg
E-Mail: [mailto]philipp.gassert@phil.uni-augsburg.de[/mailto]

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