The ESRC/AHRB 'Cultures of Consumption' Research Programme is seeking applications for an International Visiting Fellowship for 2003-4, tenable for 3 to 6 months. The fellowship will be based at Birkbeck College, London.
Requirements: PhD or equivalent, research of international excellence, institutional affiliation outside the UK.
Dead-line for applications: 30 May 2003
More information: www.consume.bbk.ac.uk
The Society for the Study of Labour History and the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library, invite applications for an Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary for 2003.
The Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary was established by the Society in honour of one of its distinguished founders and past Presidents. It is tenable at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, up to a value of £200 per annum, in order to support research in the Centre's archives. Eligible applicants are postgraduate research students working on a PhD topic in labour history.
From Dr. Bernhard H. Bayerlein dr.bayerlein@uni-koeln.de
Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Mikhail Narinski, Brigitte Studer, Serge Wolikow: Moscou-Paris-Berlin 1939-1941. Télégrammes chiffrés du Komintern. Direction éditoriale Denis Peschanski, Paris, Tallandier, 2003. 614 p. 21 Euros.
Fifth European Social Science History Conference
Berlin, Germany, 24-27 March 2004
Call for papers
The deadline for proposing sessions and papers for the fifth ESSHC has been extended to May 15. The Fifth European Social Science History Conference will be held at the Humboldt University in Berlin, on 24-27 March 2004.
The network on Labour and Working Class History will use this extension to round of the formation of a number of session on which we have room for one more paper. The topics of these sessions are:
Jock McCulloch. Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State in South Africa. African Issues Series. Oxford: James Curry, and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. xviii + 252 pp. Tables, map, photographs, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-253-34127-2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-253-21541-2.
Visitors can now search the collections of the People's History Museum (Manchester) online. Over 650 objects are available to browse, and a wide range of searches is possible. Please visit www.peopleshistorymuseum.org.uk and click on the 'Search our Collections' link.
Upcoming exhibitions at the museum:
From: Juliet Barnes jbarnes@cup.org
Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870
By Beverly J. Silver
From: Emma Goldman Papers Project emma@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Announcing H-Peace: H-Net Network on Peace History and Peace Studies
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University
ABOUT H-Peace
H-Peace is an international scholarly network that seeks to broaden understanding about historical and contemporary peace and justice concerns. An affiliate of the Peace History Society, H-Peace provides an easy way to stay informed of the latest developments in Peace History and Peace Studies, and to communicate with other scholars working and teaching in these fields.
The Labour Movement and Fascism
A conference organised by the Society for the Study of Labour History and the School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds
Saturday 8 November 2003, 10.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: Continuing Education Building, University of Leeds
