Dear Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre,

The Ninth Annual Archives Lecture of the ANU Archives Program and the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre is coming up next month. Dr Peter Stanley, head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia will speak on the topic:

Smiths in Stasiland: Archival Reminders of an Uncomfortable Australian Past
Tuesday 14 September 2010, 5.30-7pm
McDonald Room, Menzies Building, Fellows Road, ANU

A global approach to feminist labour history adds new contents and insights. Our intention with this overview of available sources at the Labour Movement Archives and Library (ARAB) is to inspire researchers, both academics and those actively interested in researching their own history, to look beyond national borders.

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Mittelweg 36, Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung 19 (2010), 4

Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser,

in der am 15. August erscheinenden Ausgabe des Mittelweg 36 (4/2010) mit dem Schwerpunkt "Zur Kommunikation des Beschweigens" liest Júlia Garraio in Reinhard Jirgls "Die Unvollendeten" und Hans-Ulrich Treichels "Der Verlorene" Vergewaltigung als Schlüsselbegriff einer misslungenen Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Dem Beitrag schließen sich einige Anmerkungen zur Wirkungsmacht des Beschweigens an.

Craig Phelan and Gerald Friedman, the editors of Labor History, and Routledge would like to congratulate the winners of the Labor History prizes for 2009:

Best articles

Best article, US topic
Timothy J. Minchin, 'It Knocked This City To Its Knees': The Closure of Pillowtex Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina and the Decline of the U.S.
Textile Industry
Labor History 50:3

North American Anarchist Studies NetworkCFP: 2nd Annual Conference, Toronto Jan 2011
2nd Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference

Toronto, Canada
January 15-16, 2011
Deadline for Proposals: November 1, 2010

Solidarity: A RetrospectiveSolidarność: Retrospektywa

Symposium jointly organised by the School of History, University College Cork, and the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Sympozjum zorganizowane przez School of History, University College Cork, wspólnie z Instytutem Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków.

Boole IV Lecture Theatre, University College Cork

Saturday 18th September 2010

Sala Wykładowa Boole IV, University College Cork
Sobota 18 Września 2010

Arm und Reich. 24. Arbeitstagung der Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Jubiläumsveranstaltung zum 50-jährigen Bestehen der GSWG

Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (GSWG), Bonn 16.03.2011-19.03.2011, Bonn
Deadline: 09.10.2010

Gorshkov, Boris B.: Russia's Factory Children. State, Society, and Law, 1800-1917 (= Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2009. ISBN 978-0-8229-6048-5; brosch.; 216 S.; EUR 51,99.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Katharina Kucher, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Universität Tübingen
E-Mail: [mailto]katharina.kucher@uni-tuebingen.de[/mailto]

Calling the Law into Question: Confronting the Illegal and Illicit in Public Arenas Radical History Review, Issue Number 113

Charles James Hendley PapersAnn: a new guide at Tamiment
The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives announce the opening of the Charles James Hendley Papers. With the assistance of a grant from the New York State Archives Documentary History Program, this collection has been fully processed and is now open for research.