Twenty Years On! The Great Miners Strike in Historical and International Perspective
Saturday November 1st 2003
Institute of Historical Research
Malet St, London
March 2004 marks the twentieth anniversary of the start of the 1984/5 British miners strike, one of the great labour struggles of the second half of the twentieth century.
The 39th conference organized by the International Conference of Labour and Social History and the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria will be held in Linz, Austria, on September 11-14, 2003. Its topic is 'Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System'.
The conference program is now available and may be ordered from christine.schindler@doew.at. The conference website is at www.ith.or.at.
Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie, eds. Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. viii + 324 pp. Tables, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2735-5; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-5410-7.
Reviewed by Kathleen Blain Roberts, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published by H-SAWH (March, 2003).
Beyond the Plantation Household
Twenty-Sixth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 21-23, 2004
Free colour leaflets giving full details of the festival are now available for display and/or distribution from TUC Publications, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Please state quantity required and full postal address for delivery.
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.
