The North West Labour History Group now has a website at www.wcml.org.uk/nwlhg/home.html.

Michael Herbert
m.herbert@notes.manchester.gov.uk

Posted: 10 April 2001

This is to announce that the Wisconsin Labor History Society now has a website at URL wisconsinlaborhistory.org. Links to the site are welcomed, of course.

Bibliography Also Available

Of special interest at our site is the first version (with about 200 items) of the "Wisconsin Labor History Bibliography"; three ways are provided for viewing the bibliography: by author, by the geographic place discussed, and by the topic discussed.

All or part of this seminar on France may be of interest to you, to students, colleagues or trade unionists.

Wednesday May 2
University of North London
Holloway Rd
Henry Thomas Room
Technology Tower (opposite Holloway Road tube station)

Keith Wrightson, Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xii + 372 pp. $35 (cloth), ISBN: 0-300-08391-2.

Reviewed for EH.NET by David Stead, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Published by EH.NET, March 2001.

In the April 2001 issue of the National Library of Australia News Dr Stephen Holt describes how the works and beliefs of the American Populist Ignatius Donnelly influenced pre-Federation Australia and the early Australian Labor Party, and are still echoed in the beliefs of the anti-globalisation movement today. The article was written to mark the centenary of Donnelly's death.

For more information on Ignatius Donnelly centenary activities in Australia please contact stephenholt34@hotmail.com.

Posted: 6 April 2001

Amy Knight, Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery.New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. xiv + 331 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, and index. US$26.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8090-64049.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Frank Schauff, PhD candidate, Department of Eastern European History, University of Cologne.
Published by H-Russia, March 2001.

The Greatest Mystery?

Rebellion on the Border
United Kingdom Exhibition

Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the study of social movements

First Call for Papers

June 26-28, 2002, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, England

Conference sponsors:
Social Movements Research Group, London Socialist Historians Group, Historical Materialism

Confirmed Speakers:
Brian Manning, author The English People and the English Revolution; Bryan D Palmer, author E.P. Thompson: Objections and Oppositions; Ellen Wood, author Democracy Against Capitalism

The Societal Consequences of Deindustrialization, 1750-2000
Call for Papers

Deindustrialization is due to various causes, principal among which is loss of competitiveness (as a result of sources being exhausted, inferior product quality, a generally high level of costs, or adverse government policy); it can also be the result of technological advances, however, or management decisions to relocate production facilities, for whatever reason.

The Ewan MacColl wing of the Working Class Movement Library website is now open and can be entered at www.wcml.org.uk/em/timeline.html.

Ewan MacColl will be known to most people as a songwriter, and as a singer, but he was also of significant influence in the worlds of theatre and radio broadcasting. He was a committed socialist all his life and his political sensibilities underpinned all his creative activities.