The North West Labour HIstory Society are holding a history lecture on the Irish and trade unionism on Sunday 18th April 2010, 2pm at the Working Class Movement Library, 51 Crescent Salford M5 4WX. [url]http://www.wcml.org.uk[/url]
There will be two speakers: Sonja Tiernan and Francis Devine
The Newberry Library Seminar in Labor History
Co-sponsored by the History Departments of Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Labor and Working Class History Association
Call for Papers
for the 2010-11 academic year
Deadline for Submission: 25 April 2010
Call for Papers
Workshops on the Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry (1908 - 2008)
Date: 2-3 December 2010
Location: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 July 2010 (300-500 words)
Deadline for submission of papers: 15 October 2010
Boletín Digital de Actividades
número 53 - febrero 2010
Actividades Culturales
Koller, Christian: Streikkultur. Performanzen und Diskurse des Arbeitskampfes im schweizerisch-österreichischen Vergleich (1860-1950). Münster: LIT Verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-643-50007-6; 672 S.; EUR 59,90.
Rezensiert für Clio-online und H-Soz-u-Kult von:Knud Andresen, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH)E-Mail: [mailto]andresen@zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de[/mailto]
Chris Hall will be talking about his book Not just Orwell and will be bringing to life the experiences of those British and Irish volunteers who fought alongside George Orwell in the Independent Labour Contingent in the Spanish Civil War.
Peoples History Museum,
Spinningfields,
Manchester.
M3 3 ER
Tel: 0161 838 9190
[url]http://www.phm.org.uk[/url]
Date: Saturday May 8th
Time; 2-3PM.
Call for papers: Climate change and union activism
It is with great pleasure that the Research Committee of the Labour Movement Archive and Library wishes to announce a conference on trade unionism and climate change. The conference will take place on 10-11 February 2011 in Stockholm.
Das Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung möchte Ihnen heute die neuesten "Archiv-Nachrichten", den elektronischen Newsletter des AdsD, präsentieren.
Den Link zu unserer neuesten Ausgabe finden Sie hier:
[url]http://www.fes.de/archiv/adsd_neu/inhalt/news.htm [/url]
Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
The British Academy, London
Thursday 13 January – Saturday 15 January 2011
Proposals are invited for this conference, to be held in January 2011 at the British Academy in London.
The relationship between state communism and music behind the Iron Curtain has been the subject of much scholarly interest. The importance of communism for musicians outside the communist bloc, by contrast, has received little sustained attention.
This conference aims to examine:
5e jaargang, nr. 3, maart 2010
Nacht van de Geschiedenis
Tijdens de Nacht van de Geschiedenis op 23 maart kan je van 20 tot 22 uur de tentoonstelling Amsab Revisited! bezoeken. Een van de themata die belicht worden, zijn de vrijzinnige begrafenissen. Er is ieder uur een rondleiding. Daarna wordt een drankje aangeboden.
