Conference announcement

Friendly Societies Research Group Spring conference in the UK:

Membership involvement: milestone or millstone? How members' involvement affects mutuality past, present and future

'Voices of a Twentieth Century Nation', the biennial Oral History Association of Australia National Conference, will be held in Australia's capital city, Canberra, from August 30 to September 2, 2001.

Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. 412 pp. $22,95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8223-2491-1; $64.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8223-2454-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Gregory Clark, Department of Economics, University of California-Davis.
Published by EH.NET, March 2001.

On the eve of International Women's Day, 8 March, the International Institute of Social History (IISH) has published on its Web server the first two parts of a Guide to Sources for Women's History in the IISH to highlight the presence of women and women's organizations in the Institute's rich collections. The URL is: www.iisg.nl/~womhist/womarc.html.

Women's History in the IISH

Call for Papers

The European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) is an international postgraduate network incorporating more than 60 European universities. The network organises research training in the form of annual series of Advanced Seminars on specialised themes within Economic and Social History. Each seminar can host a maximum of 15 postgraduates from European universities who are given the opportunity to discuss their work with a number of renowned senior scholars in their field of research. The network language is English.

REPORT FROM SECRETARY OF THE FRIENDS

The A.G.M. of the Friends of the Library was held on Sunday 25th of February in the Annexe. This was the first event held in the hall since Hazel Blear's colleagues painstakingly (and painfully) cleaned and painted the hall. Friends were delighted to be able to use the Annexe once again and a very happy atmosphere was generated.

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