WCML Newsletter, May 1, 2015
Welcome to our new-look newsletter, which is part of our new-look Web site.
If you head to www.wcml.org.uk today you can explore the new mobile friendly site. We’ve added a lot of information about library resources you can come here and read, on a vast range of topics. And there’s a whole mini-site devoted to Ewan MacColl, just in time for the centenary event we are holding at the University of Salford on 10 May*.
Op 1 mei 2015 wordt de 125e Dag van de Arbeid gevierd. Amsab-medewerkers Luc Peiren en Mario Van Driessche maakten naar aanleiding van die verjaardag een montage. In een eerste deel spoelen ze letterlijk de tijd terug. In een tweede deel focussen ze op het prille begin: het jaar 1890.
Om 1 May 2015 Labour Day is celebrated for the 125th time. Amsab-staff members Luc Peiren and Mario Van Driessche made a video montage for this occasion. In the first part they literally rewind time; in a second part, they focus on the very beginning: the year 1890.
11.5.2015, 18 bis 19 Uhr: Öffentliche Präsentation
Säubern, Spenden, Abschied nehmen – Das Kriegsende 1945 in den Beständen des Schweizerischen Sozialarchivs
Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs vor 70 Jahren stellte auch für die Schweiz einen bedeutenden Einschnitt dar. In den Beständen des Sozialarchivs finden sich aus jener Zeit interessante Dokumente etwa zu den "Säuberungen" von ausländischen Nazis und Faschisten, den vielfältigen Schweizer Hilfsaktionen in Europa nach Kriegsende sowie der Umstellung des Sozialarchivs von der Kriegs- auf die Friedenszeit.
By popular demand, we have shifted the deadline for paper and session proposals 2 weeks to May 15, 2015. But we urge you not to wait to the very last minute to register your paper and session proposals.
https://esshc.socialhistory.org/news/deadline-call-papers-extended-may-…
For the sixth time, de Volkskrant and the International Institute of Social History are organizing the annual Volkskrant-IISH Thesis Award. Therefore we are looking for students who have written an outstanding thesis on a national or international historical subject. Students of disciplines other than history are also cordially invited to apply for this award.
In her assessment the jury will look at theses that have a clear innovative approach. This could be a new subject or an innovative approach to an already frequently researched topic. See for previous winners
Labour history is a thriving field of research. Over the last decades, national and international comparative research in labour history has been complemented by attention to connections and circulations between different regions, and a truly global approach to the field covering increasingly larger time frames has been developed.
Het IISG doet geavanceerd onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van werk, werkenden en arbeidsverhoudingen op mondiale schaal en verzamelt daartoe gegevens, die ook ter beschikking worden gesteld aan andere onderzoekers.
Het IISG is op zoek voor de afdeling Dienstverlening en Collectiebehoud naar een
Projectmedewerker digitalisering
(30,4 uur per week, 0,8 fte)
Voor de duur van 12 maanden
De afdeling Dienstverlening en Collectiebehoud stelt collecties ter beschikking aan onderzoekers en is verantwoordelijk voor conservering en digitalisering.
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.
