Working Class Movement Library Newsletter

1. Our popular free Invisible Histories talks are underway again in their usual Wednesday 2pm slot.
Wed 25 March ''Red Nelson": the English working class and the making of C.L.R. James - Christian Hogsbjerg
The ten months that the black Trinidadian writer C.L.R. James spent in the cotton textile town of Nelson in NE Lancashire from 1932-33 were 'ten months that shook his world'. This talk will discuss how James's experience in Nelson shaped his emergence as one of the most important socialist intellectuals in Britain during the Great Depression.

Arbeiter | Kultur | Geschichte. Arbeiterfotografie der Weimarer Republik im Museum

Veranstalter:

Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V. und das Stadtmuseum Dresden in Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig, dem Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln und den Kunstsammlungen Zwickau

Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Sächsischen Landesstelle für Museumswesen

27. und 28. März 2015

im Stadtmuseum Dresden

Together and Apart. The Urban Family in Russia in the Twentieth Century

On 6 March the IISH exhibition Together and Apart. The Urban Family in Russia in the Twentieth Century opened its doors in the Russian port-city of Vladivostok.

Formerly on show in de Drenths Museum in Assen, in Moscow and in St. Petersburg, Together and Apart is based on the results of IISH research and shows the impact of Russia’s turbulent twentieth century on the form, function and evolution of the family and household in Russia.

Global Connections in Labour History: Collecting and Discovering Migrant Workers’ Heritage

46th Annual Conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI)

Call for Papers

Global Connections in Labour History: Collecting and Discovering Migrant Workers’ Heritage

16-19 September 2015, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

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