Call for papers ESSHC Lisbon 2008
Network: Labour

'Working for wages 1300-1800: Conditions and forms of pre-industrial labour contracts'

Conference to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, London, Saturday 2 February 2008.

Throughout many of the events organised in Britain to commemorate the bicentenary of the British abolition of the slave trade, one voice has been missing: that of the rebellious slaves themselves, in particular those of St. Domingue/Haiti, the authors of the only successful slave revolt in history, and the people who did more than Wilberforce or anyone else to bring the slave system to an end.

The Continuing History of the Spanish Civil War
A Tamiment Library Symposium and Exhibition Opening "Art and Politics: Posters From the Spanish Civil War"

April 27, 2007
4 PM - 8 PM

Speakers:

John Brademas (NYU) "Communists and Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War."

Peter Carroll (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives) "Toward a New Paradigm of Spanish Civil War History."

Gabriel Jackson (University of California, San Diego, emeritus "The Problem of Historical Memory and the Spanish Civil War."

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Demande de communications
Thème : Le rôle des femmes et de leur travail dans le contexte de l'histoire publique
26-27 octobre 2007
Ottawa, Ontario
Présentée par l'Association canadienne sur le rôle des femmes dans l'histoire publique

Web-Materialien-Quellen

Ferdinand Lassalle. Nachgelassene Briefe und Schriften (Deutschland)
[url]http://www.historische-kommission-muenchen-editionen.de/lassalle/[/url]

Announcement: 2007 Kenny Prize Lecture, Wednesday, May 2nd, 4pm, University of Toronto

This year the Robert S. Kenny prize for outstanding work in the field of Marxist and labour/left studies has been awarded to Faith Johnston for her book A Great Restlessness-The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen published by the University of Manitoba Press.

Neue Rezensionen im Archiv für Sozialgeschichte - Stand Januar/Februar 2007

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 47 (2007) des Archiv für Sozialgeschichte und sind im Internet als Volltexte zugänglich:
[url]http://library.fes.de/afs-online/fr-rezensionen.html[/url]

't Is een schande! Over klerikale onbeschaamdheden en liberale kindertuinpolitiekers. Tentoonstelling in het Amsab-museum. klik snel door naar:
[url]http://www.amsab.be/am2/nieu/2jaargnr3.htm[/url]

Verder ook nog in de Nieuwsbrief van Amsab-Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis:

Session: "Between idea(l)s and reality: labour as non-state actor in international relations"

Dear Friends and Colleagues,