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.
Portal de Archivos de la Unión General de Trabajadores
Transportation as a lifeline of tourism development in socialist countries
International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M)
Theme Group: Tourism in Socialist Countries
New Delhi 02.12.2010-05.12.2010, National Rail Museum (NRM), New Delhi, India
Deadline: 01.05.2010
br>A new publication by IISH-researcher Jan Lucassen.
Edited by Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen and Patrick Manning, Migration History in World History : Multidisciplinary Approaches Studies in Global Social History, 3. Leiden: Brill, 2010. ISBN 978-90-351-3501-7 (hardback), x + 290 pp.
Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung; Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas
Berlin 09.04.2010-10.04.2010, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
Tagung und Buchpräsentation gemeinsam mit dem Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas und dem Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung
Jana K. Lipman. Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. Berkeley University of California Press, 2009. x + 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-25539-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-25540-1.
Reviewed by Robert S. Robinson (Ohio University)
Published on H-Diplo (March, 2010)
Commissioned by Dustin Walcher
GTMO and Guantánamo: Labor Relations between Cuba and the United States
