Noel Butlin Archives Centre Annual Lecture & Friends of NBAC Membership Renewal

Dear Friends,

I am writing to provide details of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre Annual Lecture, and to call for Membership Renewals for the year 2008-9.

The Annual Lecture, to be presented by Michael Piggott is titled "Alchemist Magpies? Collecting Archivists and Their Critics", and will be held on Tuesday 16 September, from 5.30pm-7pm in the McDonald Room of the Menzies Library, ANU. Refreshments will follow the lecture. Further details are available at:

The workshop, to be held on 12-13 December 2008, is cancelled
The IISH invites scholars to submit papers for a workshop "A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1908-2008". The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 October 2008.

Neue Rezensionen im Archiv für Sozialgeschichte - Stand Juli 2008

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

wir freuen uns, Ihnen heute wieder Buchbesprechungen zur Sozial- und Zeitgeschichte präsentieren zu können.

Die Rezensionen verstehen sich als Teil des Rezensions-Apparats von Band 48 (2008) des Archiv für Sozialgeschichte und sind im Internet als Volltexte zugänglich: [url]http://library.fes.de/afs-online/fr-rezensionen.html[/url]

Sandro Pertini, Filippo TuratiBook ann: Piero Lacaita
La Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" comunica:

Sono usciti per la collana Società e Cultura i volumi:

Gianluca Scroccu
La Passione di un socialista
Sandro Pertini e il Psi
dalla Liberazione agli anni del centro-sinistra

Piero Lacaita Editore
collana Società e Cultura pp. 251
Euro 20,00

Boletín Digital de Actividades
número 39 - junio - julio de 2008

Actos Conmemorativos

RG5-001. Office of the General Counsel. Lawyers Coordinating Committee Oral History Project: consists of oral history transcripts (3 at present)conducted by the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee as part of an ongoing project to capture the insights, experiences and stories of lawyers who have played seminal roles in the life of the labor and civil rights movements around the country over the past several decades.

Call for papers - World Economic History Congress Utrecht, 3-7 August 2009

Proposed session - Industrious women and children of the world? Jan de Vries' 'industrious revolution' as a conceptual tool for researching women's and children's work in an international perspective

Session organizers:

Jane Humphries (Oxford University, All Souls College)

Ariadne Schmidt (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Leiden University, History Department)

Mikron Theatre Company perform Fair Trade: reaping the dividends
Sunday 7th September, 2pm

Steindorff, Ludwig; Schulz, Günther; unter Mitarbeit von Heeke, Matthias; Röttjer, Julia; Savin, Andrej (Hrsg.): Partei und Kirchen im frühen Sowjetstaat. Die Protokolle der Antireligiösen Kommission beim Zentralkomitee der Russischen Kommunistischen Partei (Bol'seviki) 1922-1929 (= Geschichte: Forschung und Wissenschaft 11). Münster: LIT Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-825-88604-2; brosch.; 458 S.; EUR 39,90.

Migev, Vladimir: Prazkata prolet '68 i Bulgarija/ The Prague Spring '68. Sofia: Iztok-Zapad 2005. ISBN -; 307 S..

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Stefan Troebst, Universität Leipzig
E-Mail: [mailto]troebst@uni-leipzig.de[/mailto]