[Sephis (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development) posted the latest issue of their e-magazine.]

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts on 'Workers' Struggles and Nationalist Movements in the Arab World, 1900-present.' We are directing a workshop on this theme at the Tenth Mediterranean Research Meeting which will take place near Florence (Italy) on 25 -28 March 2009.

Mikron Theatre perform their new show Fair Trade this Sunday, 7 September 2pm in The Annexe at the Working Class Movement Libray, 51 Crescent, Salford.

Entrance £4, payable on the door.

Fair Trade: Reaping the Dividends, the story of the co-operative movement.

New items on the IISH website in August 2008:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/mandemakers.php[/url]
Kees Mandemakers, senior researcher at the IISH, has been appointed Professor of Large Historical Databases at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/research/global-black.php[/url]
Call for papers for the workshop "A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1908-2008".

The 39th Conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions will take place at Johannesburg, South Africa, from 9 till 13 September 2008.

For more information and the programme, see

[url]http://www.ialhi.org/conferences.php#present [/url]

Lehrstuhl für deutsche und österreichische Studien der Karls-Universität Prag gemeinsam mit dem Goethe-Institut Prag, dem Herder-Institut Marburg und der Historischen Kommission für die böhmischen Länder, Prag, Prag
25.09.2008-26.09.2008, Goethe-Institut Prag, Masarykovo nábreží 32, 2.Etage

Dans le cadre des Journées du patrimoine, le Carhop, en partenariat avec le CIEP-MOC Hainaut Centre et Loisirs et Vacances, vous invite au vernissage de l'exposition "Mouvement ouvrier et Culture". Il se déroulera le vendredi 12 septembre à 18h30 aux Ateliers des FUCaM à Mons. L'exposition sera accessible de 9h30 à 17h30 les 13 et 14 septembre.

Outre l'exposition, ne ratez pas la nuit blanche du Patrimoine le samedi 13 septembre à partir de 20h30. Au programme: concerts de Slam, de guitares manouches et de djembé.

Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Germany, Britain, Scandinavia and other Countries 1860-1929
International Conference, Hamburg, 13-15 September 2008
Hosted by Institute for the History of Jews in Germany, University of Hamburg and organized in conjunction with:

- Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS), Universität Osnabrück
- Historisk Institutt, Universitetet i Bergen
- Parkes Institute, University of Southampton

The conference is funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Cologne.

ITH Newsletter

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

anbei [[url]http://www.ith.or.at/start/[/url]] der aktuelle ITH-Rundbrief Nr. 44/3.
Dieser Rundbrief enthält das Programm der 44. Linzer Konferenz der ITH: "1968 - Ein Blick auf die Protestbewegungen 40 Jahre danach aus globaler Perspektive". Anmeldungen sind kurzfristig noch bis 2. September möglich!

Remembering Ruth and Eddie Frow

The Trustees of the Working Class Movement Library would be very pleased to hear from anyone with a suggestion on how best to remember Ruth and Eddie Frow, the joint founders of the library.

Eddie died in 1997, Ruth died earlier this year. In establishing the WCML they made an incalculable contribution to saving and popularising the history of working class social, industrial and cultural movements of the last 200 years.