The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick is a partner in a project funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme entitled “A Mine of Information: Cataloguing the South Wales Coalfield”. The project is led by the University of Wales, Swansea. Its aim is to improve access to research resources relating to the South Wales Coalfield. It will do this by creating online catalogue records for the relevant material located in partner institutions. The records will be held in EAD and MARC databases at UWS. Researchers will be able to cross-search these via the Web.

The new edition of the 'Guide to the Asian Collections at the International Institute of Social History' (Amsterdam, 2001) is now downloadable from the web as a PDF file. The printed edition will be available in a few weeks.

See: www.iisg.nl/asia/collect1.html.

For more information: Eef Vermeij [MAILTO]eve@iisg.nl[/MAILTO].

Posted: 6 March 2001

The international contact group for research in former Soviet archives on issues of historical political economy now maintains awebsite at www.soviet-archives-research.co.uk.

The site includes indexes of

The latest issue of the National Library of Australia News contains an article commemorating the centenary of the birth of the Australian trade union leader Dr Lloyd Ross. Dr Ross was a working-class educator in the 1920s and a trade union campaigner in the 1930s and again in the mid-1950s and 1960s. He was also involved in the political activities of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party.

The article is written by Dr Stephen Holt, the author of a biography of Dr Ross published by University of Queensland Press.

Socialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it effects workers at the beginning of the 21st Century. Theoretical contributions explore: today's old and new working classes, workers 'north' and 'south', peasants and workers, gender and the working class, migrant workers, tele-working. Other essays examine critically important regional experiences in East Asia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Russia, Europe and North America.

Contents

Call for papers:
Industrial Environments - Creativity and Consequences, 1800-1940
A seminar series at Rutgers University’s Center for Historical Analysis

Call for papers for a workshop organised by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, January 25-26, 2002

The IISH invites PhD students
- involved with historical research on gender and welfare states in the 20th century
- interested in reconsiderations of maternalism and
- eager to discuss the pitfalls of international comparisons to participate in a two-days-workshop

'Maternalism reconsidered: Mothers and method in 20th century history'

Odd Arne Westad, ed, Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963. Cold War International History Project Series. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998. xxii + 404 pp. Appendix and index. $ 45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-3484-4; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8047-3485-2.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Matthew Young, Department of History, Bowling Green State University.
Published by H-Russia, February 2001.

Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Media Release
15 February 2001

A step forward for Archives, at last, but only a first step

Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
by David E. Bernstein
Duke University Press
ISBN 0-8223-2583-7, cloth $39.95
February 2001, 216 pages

Website, with links to the Preface and Introduction: mason.gmu.edu/~dbernste/Redress.html.