The Working Class Movement Library will be holding a meeting to mark the 25th anniversary of the Miners Strike 1984-1985. On Saturday 21 November at 2.30pm speakers Granville Williams, editor of Shafted: the Media,the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath (2009), and Paul Kelly (Ex-Agecroft Miner) will look back at the personal, political and economic effects of the strike.
Book event, 4 November, London: Guilty and Proud of it! Poplar's rebel councillors andguardian 1919-1925
Janine Booth gives a presentation about her new book: Guilty and Proud of it! Poplar's rebel councillors and guardians 1919-25.
Wednesday 4 November, 7pm
Venue: Pages of Hackney bookshop, 70 Lower Clapton Road, London Sponsored by Hackney TUC
Free entry. Refreshments provided. The book will be on sale at this event at the reduced price of £10 (RRP £12.95)
The Australian Settlement and the Fisher Government
Conference, Business and Labour History Group, The University of Sydney,
30 April 2010
Call for Papers
Conference convenors: Mark Hearn, Modern History, Macquarie University; Nick Dyrenfurth & Harry Knowles, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted by 12 February 2010 to: [mailto]N.Dyrenfurth@econ.usyd.edu.au[/mailto]
SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing); University of Helsinki (History, Folklore Studies, Church History); The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland; Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies; The Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and Reading; Finnish Literature Society 17.08.2010-21.08.2010, Helsinki
Deadline: 30.11.2009
Wir waren so frei ... Momentaufnahmen 1989/1990 (Deutschland)
[url]http://www.wir-waren-so-frei.de[/url]
"Das Internet-Achiv zeigt private Filme und Fotos der Umbruchzeit 1989/1990 in Deutschland. Gesammelt werden persönliche Eindrücke und Stimmungen. Damit eröffnet sich ein anderer Blick auf die historischen Ereignisse und deren Auswirkungen auf den Alltag in Ost und West."
Free Labour? Women and work in slave and post-slave societies
Economic History Society Women’s Committee, 20th Annual Workshop
14th November, 2009
Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation
Oriel Chambers
27 High Street
Kingston upon Hull
HU1 1NE
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For a list of abstracts, [programme and booking form] please visit [url]http://www.ehs.org.uk/society/women.asp[/url]
Newsletter n. 27 - 19 ottobre 2009
Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
[url]http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it[/url]
In occasione dell'uscita del libro di Giovanni De Luna
Le ragioni di un decennio, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli editore
Mercoledì 28 ottobre 2009
La Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli e la Giangiacomo Feltrinelli editore organizzano il convegno'1969-1979. Dieci anni che non ci hanno Dimenticato
Please note the deadline for booking this conference is 30 October 2009
The Cultural and Literary Meaning of the Spanish Political Exile of 1939
Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation
Hispanic Studies, Department of Modern Languages. School of Arts, Languages and Literatures
University of Exeter, Reed Hall
November, 9 to 11th 2009
Call for Papers
International Conference
Strikes and Social Conflicts in the Twentieth Century Lisbon, 17, 18, 19 March, 2011
Call for Papers
VIIIth International Conference of Labour History
March 18-20, 2010
Delhi India
The Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH) in collaboration with the V V Giri National Labour Institute( VVGNLI) is organizing the 8th International Conference to be held at Delhi on March 18-20, 2010.
We invite proposals for paper presentation at the conference from historians, social scientists, labour activists and organizations on the themes outlined below.
Labour History: Expanding the Frontiers
