1917 was an important year for historical change on a global scale - not only due to the American entry into the War and the Russian Revolution. The year can rightly be considered the turning point of the First World War and the foundations for the decisive structures of the short 20th century. Contemporary observers recognized these global connections very well. But in the historiography limited to the Nation State these global connections did not matter for decades. This has changed during recent years.

Radical Women, 1880-1914 - call for papers for a one-day public conference at the Working Class Movement Library (Salford, UK)

The Library is delighted to issue a call for papers for a conference to be held here on Saturday 17 September.

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Sheila Rowbotham, Manchester University
Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University

We would like to invite your students to participate in the next edition of ‘Global Histories: A Student Journal’. For this edition, we are seeking articles of between 5000 and 7000 words on the topic of migration from a global history perspective.

We are looking for papers considering migration from all time periods and geographic regions. We are happy to discuss proposals and/or abstracts, but please send them well in advance of the final deadline, the 31st April 2016. 

FICEDL is the Fédération internationale des centres d’études et de documentation libertaires. It unites archives and libraries from around the world. It began in Marseille in 1979 and since then it has met periodically in different places.

The meeting articulates in two days.

Saturday 9 April
11am: Meetings and greetings followed by lunch provided by Berneri

3pm: Introductory meeting, participatory organisations will have a chance to introduce themselves and what they do, current projects and future plans.

On 25 February 2016 the seventy-fifth anniversary of the February Strike will be commemorated in front of the synagogue and the Dokwerker [Dockworker] Monument in Amsterdam. Exactly seventy-five years ago, on 25 February 1941, a general strike broke out in Amsterdam in protest at the German occupation and persecution of the Jews. It was commemorated for the first time in 1946, and then in every subsequent year.

The struggle for self-determination and independence of Portuguese colonies benefited from an international solidarity promoted by different entities, namely governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations, such as churches, trade unions or political, student and women's organizations. The solidarity was instigated by different ideological commitments across the national boundaries and aimed different goals.

Journal de la BDIC - la bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine & ses lecteurs

N°40 - Février 2016

Page 1. Internationales graphiques

Page 2. Le mot des lecteurs : Former les lecteurs de licence d’histoire à l’usage et à la fabrication de la source orale

Page 3. Suivre la BDIC sur les réseaux sociaux

Pages 4 et 5. Exposition : Internationales graphiques. Collections d’affiches politiques 1979-1990

Join a Salford WW1 conscientious objector as he tells his story
We are so looking forward to the 30-minute free performances of our Living History play about WW1 conscientious objector James Hudson, commissioned as part of our Heritage Lottery Fund WW1 project.

Rapper dance - its creation and what it meant to working communities
On Wednesday 2 March at 2pm our free Invisible Histories talks series starts up again with a talk by Tom Besford.

Labour (dis)united. Disputed legitimacies within the British labour movement

Monday 4 April 2016
People's History Museum, Manchester

Conference organised by the Centre for Research on the English-speaking World (CREW / Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
and sponsored by the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) and the Labour Movements Group of the Political Studies Association (PSA)

PROGRAMME

9 - 9.30 Emmanuelle AVRIL & Yann BELIARD (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
Registration, welcome address and introduction

The School of Management & Business at King’s College London invites applications for a series of funded, full-time PhD studentships to start in the 2016-17 academic year.

PhD students who want to pursue a critical approach to any topic in the sociology of work and organizations, labor markets or comparative political economy. Any interested students can contact Dr Matt Vidal directly: matt.vidal [at] kcl.ac.uk