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.

Book presentation on the occasion of the Leipzig Book Fair 2003

Hermann Weber, Bernhard H. Bayerlein (eds.): Der Thälmann-Skandal. Geheime Korrespondenzen mit Stalin, Berlin, Aufbau-Verlag, 2003. app. 365 p. Series: Archive des Kommunismus - Pfade des XX. Jahrhunderts, vol. II

Reading and discussion with Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Hermann Weber and Dr. Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Werner Bramke
Saturday, 22.03.2003, 17.30 h
Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, Grimmaische Straße 6, 04109 Leipzig (near the marketplace)

Gender- und Frauengeschichte im Historischen Forschungszentrum der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : Bestaende im Archiv der Sozialen Demokratie und in der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Sabine Boltzendahl und Ilse Fischer. - Bonn : Historisches Forschungszentrum der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2003. - 190 S. : Ill. ISBN 3-89892-148-4.

DATABASE OF AMERICAN LABOR GRAPHICS AND SIDEWALK CONTRACTOR STAMPS

Two projects of Lincoln Cushing (lcushing@library.berkeley.edu):

The first at

www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/LaborGraphicsProject.html

tries to identify labor graphic collections -- graphics, prints, posters depicting workers, labor organizations, labor culture etc. The second at

The 2nd Sources of Radicalism conference will take place in Manchester on Saturday 10th May 2003. SoR is a unique event which brings together labour historians, trade unionists and political activists to discuss the past, present and future of the radical and labour movement.