Third International Round-Table on Urban Environmental History of the 19th and 20th Century
The Making of European Contemporary Cities: an Environmental History
University of Siena, June 24-27, 2004

Call for Papers

The conferences on urban environmental history hosted by the University of Clermont-Ferrand in May 2000, and by the University of Leicester in June 2002, were valuable opportunities to set out the 'state of art' in this field, to exchange information and to share and establish common research agendas.

A meeting on the occasion of the publication of John Saville’s Political Memoirs to discuss Marxism and History.

• Eric Hobsbawm
• Dorothy Thompson
• John Saville

Friday May 16 2003
Meeting, 6 pm–7.30 pm
Stapleton House, London Metropolitan University,
277-281 Holloway Rd., London N7 8HN

Tickets are £5 in advance available from Working Lives Research Institute, 277-281 Holloway Rd. London N7 8HN, Email: workinglives@londonmet.ac.uk.

LUCAS is pleased to announce that the programme and booking form for the major international conference "Political Pressure and the Archival Record" is now available on its website at

www.liv.ac.uk/lucas/Political_pressure_files/polpressurehome.htm

Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963

New Volume in Cold war International History Project Book Series Available

Ilya Gaiduk, former CWIHP Fellow and Kennan Institute ECA Regional Exchange Scholar is the author of the latest volume in the CWIHP Books Series (Stanford University Press/WWC Press).

Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the conflict was radically transformed.

Political Transfer: The Use of Foreign Examples in Politics, 1789-1960
International Conference
Groningen, the Netherlands, 14-16 January 2004

First Announcement and Call for Papers

A new book on the Spanish Communist Party has just been published:

Víctor Manuel Santidrián Arias, Historia do PCE en Galicia, 1920-1968, Sada, Ediciós do Castro, 2003.

Fundación 10 de Marzo
República do Salvador, 15, 5º
15701 Santiago de Compostela
Galicia-España
Tel: +34 981 591816, +34 981 599765
Fax: +34 981507081
Email f10m.sn@galicia.ccoo.es

In 2000 IISH researcher Sjaak van der Velden wrote a dissertation analysing 14,000 database records on Dutch strikes between 1830 and 1995. The IISH is about to publish this database on it's Website. In the mean time Van der Velden worked on another project, a database containing more than 800 records on Dutch lock-outs between 1830 and 2000. This data will also be published on the IISH-Website later this year.

H-Net Network on American communism and anticommunism
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University

ABOUT H-HOAC

Social Democratic Politics in Britain 1881-1911 by Graham Johnson

The first phase of an exciting new online resource was launched last week. THE UNION MAKES US STRONG website at www.unionhistory.info will present a history of the British trade union movement since the early 19th century, based on digitised images from the TUC Library Collections.

This first phase includes a Timeline of images and documents from 1815-1960 and a History of the 1888 Match Workers Strike including digitised pages from the Strike Fund Register.