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.

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.

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