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
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.
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
