New online publications on the website of the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli:

Giuseppe Mazzini, La questione italiana (PDF)

Le opere di Giuseppe Mazzini possedute dalla Fondazione (PDF)

Mark Curthoys. Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. viii + 284 pp. Bibliography, index. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-1992-6889-4.
Jose Harris, ed. Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 319 pp. Bibliography, index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-1992-6020-6.

Fran Lisa Buntman. Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 358 pp. Index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-5210-0782-8.

Reviewed by: Noel Solani, Department of Education, Pretoria, South Africa.
Published by: H-SAfrica (June, 2005)

Nick Thomas. Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003. xv + 277 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 9-8597-3645-9; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 1-8597-3650-5.

Reviewed by: Michael L. Hughes, Department of History, Wake Forest University.
Published by: H-German (June, 2005)

Call for Paper Proposals

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University,October 19-22, 2006

Rethinking Worlds of Labour:
Southern African labour history in international context.
A conference from Friday 28th to Monday 31st July 2006
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Organised by the History Workshop and the Sociology of Work Unit, at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Call for papers

ITH - International Conference of Labour and Social History
Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria

Labour Biographies and Prosopography
September 15 to 18, 2005
AK-Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof
Römerstr. 98a, A-4020 Linz

41st Linz Conference, organized by International Conference of Labour and Social History and Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria kindly supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the City of Linz, the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.

Call for Papers: Child Labour’s Global Past (1500-2000)
International conference, Amsterdam, 15-17 November 2006

We live in an age when child labour is almost extinct in some parts of the world, and an enduring phenomenon in others. Depending on the definitions used, the estimated number of child labourers ranges from 180 to 250 million worldwide. Notwithstanding a gradual decline in some parts of the world, overall progress remains inadequate. The eradication of child labour seems to be an insurmountable problem.

The annual North West Labour History Journal (England) will be published this autumn. Please send details of any historical seminars, meetings, social, cultural and other events happening in autumn 2005 and in 2006 for inclusion as soon as possible to the editor Bob Hayes - email:

Heritage Open Days 2005

Please note that the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, England, will be taking part in the Heritage Open Days 2005.

The library is one of the most important collections in the country of the history of the trade union and labour movement from the late c18th to the present day. It was founded in the 1950s by Ruth and Edmund Frow in their own home and since 1987 has been housed in Salford. It is now a Charitable Trust.