Practices of charity and alms giving as well as the organization of poor relief or mutual assistance always imply a sense of 'community'. All assistance and relief is in one way or another reserved for a specific group considered 'deserving', be that co-religionists, fellow townsmen, members of a particular guild, confraternity or quarter, etc. When allocating aid or relief to one specific group, the in-group is formed while its boundaries are being sharpened to outsiders.

The European Labour History Network will be hosting its first conference in December 2015 at the University of Turin. The aim of the Network is to connect scholars working in the various sub-fields associated with labour history, one of which is imperial labour history. The convenors of the Imperial Labour History Working Group, Yann Beliard and Gareth Curless, are organising a two-day workshop as part of the conference on the subject of 'New Directions in Imperial Labour History':

James Keir Hardie, 15 August 1856-26 September 1915: a one-day public conference at the Working Class Movement Library - CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speaker: Professor David Howell, University of York

Saturday 26 September 2015 will mark the centenary of the death of James Keir Hardie at the comparatively young age of 59. But in those 59 years Hardie had changed the political landscape of Britain.

THE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN LABOUR HISTORIANS and V.V. GIRI NATIONAL LABOUR INSTITUTE, 21-23 MARCH 2016 AT V.V. GIRI NATIONAL LABOUR INSTITUTE, NOIDA/New Delhi, INDIA

The Theme: Workers, Labour and Mediation

HISTORIES ON THE FRINGES AND BETWEEN THE MARGINS

Unofficial Histories is a public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.

It aims brings together those who wish to consider historical engagements and understandings that take place within, on the edges of, or outside “official” sites that produce and transmit historical knowledge and ideas.

Roll up, roll up! The fourth annual Unofficial Histories conference will take place in Amsterdam over two days:

In March 2015, IISH staff members Andreas Admasie, Stefano Bellucci and Marien van der Heijden visited the Bahir Dar Textile Factory in Ethiopia to start a digitization project, a cooperation between IISH, the factory and Bahir Dar University. The factory has a probably complete set of personel files, which gives a unique view on workers' life courses.

Actividades culturales

Desde aquella primera reunión en 2007 se han multiplicado los trabajos relacionados con el anarquismo y su presencia en Argentina y en otros países de América Latina. En estos pocos años se digitalizaron y compartieron cientos de archivos, se escribieron varias tesis y se publicaron decenas de libros y artículos.

La quinta edición de nuestros encuentros es una excelente oportunidad para hacer un balance. Es por eso que lo/as invitamos a encontrarnos nuevamente el SÁBADO 13 DE JUNIO DE 2015 en la sede del CeDInCI (Fray Luis Beltrán 125, Flores, Buenos Aires).

Page 1. Un laboratoire de et pour la recherche

Page 2. Le mot des lecteurs : Interview de Bernard George : De la Grande Collecte à la recherche

The final free talk in our Invisible Histories series is by Sheila Cohen on Wednesday 22 April at 2pm - Notoriously militant: the story of a union branch at Ford Dagenham.
Sheila Cohen's book Notoriously militant, based on original research and oral history, covers the history of Ford's Dagenham plant - and its roots in Henry Ford's early US activities - from 20th century shop floor struggles to the 21st century fight against plant closure.