International Women's Day events at the Working Class Movement Library
Saturday 6th March 2010,

Two events to mark International Women's Day.
Working Class Movement Library, 51 Crescent Salford M5 4WX

"Dear Sisters of the Earth": A History Walk Celebrating Manchester's Rebellious and Revolutionary Women
Sunday 28 February 2010.
Meet 10:45am, outside Central Library, St Peters Square.
The charge is £5.00
The walk will be led by Michael Herbert

This walk will explore the exciting history of Manchester's rebellious and revolutionary women. It will include the stories of women at Peterloo, the forgotten feminists of the 1830s, suffragists and suffragettes, the 2nd wave of feminism in the 1970s, Mrs Gaskell, Mother Ann Lee and Mary and Lizzie Burns.

Call for applications

To encourage the study of labor, Labor History is pleased to announce an annual Dissertation Prize for labor studies, broadly defined. In keeping with the journal's dedication to a multi-disciplined approach to the field, and its commitment to chronological and geographical breadth, the prize will be awarded to the best Ph.D. dissertation on a labor topic, historical or contemporary, in the US or worldwide, regardless of discipline.

Newsletter n. 2 – 9 febbraio 2010

Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
[url]http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it[/url]

Il Risorgimento e la nascita dell’Italia contemporanea è un progetto promosso dalla Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, in collaborazione con l’Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia e con la Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, e sostenuto dal contributo di Fondazione Cariplo.

Please find below [...] details of a forthcoming conference of the London Socialist Historians' group.

The Vote: WHAT WENT WRONG?

Saturday 27 February at 9.30am
Institute of Historical Research
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1

The recent scandal over MPs' expenses has raised major questions about parliamentary democracy and its relationship to the labour movement and the left.

From: Gerald Ronning, [mailto]gronning@alb.edu[/mailto]

The Labor Network of the Social Science History Association invites papers and panels sessions for its 2010 Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago from November 18-21.

London School of Economics and Political Science
Department of Economic History
African Economic History Workshop

Call for Papers

Wednesday 28 April 2010
LSE Room H.101 (Connaught House), 2.00-7.00 PM

This is to announce the sixth in our annual series of informal research workshops aimed at the exchange of ideas, and the provision of feedback, on any aspect of the economic history of Sub-Saharan Africa. It will be based on participants committing themselves to read the papers in advance.

Boletín Digital de Actividades
número 52 - diciembre de 2009 / enero 2010
Actividades Culturales

Exposición Carlos Giménez. Viñetas de la historia de España
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Servir la classe ouvrière. Sociabilités militantes au PCF

Julian Mischi
Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010

Neue Rezensionen im Archiv für Sozialgeschichte - Stand: November 2009
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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

wir freuen uns, Ihnen heute wieder Buchbesprechungen zur Sozial- und Zeitgeschichte präsentieren zu können.

Die Rezensionen verstehen sich als Teil des Rezensionsapparats von Band 50 (2010) des Archivs für Sozialgeschichte und sind im Internet als Volltexte zugänglich.