The Autumn 2008 issue of the London Socialist historians group newsletter has been published.

L'Archivio Pinelli pubblica due volte l'anno un Bollettino illustrato, destinato ai propri soci, composto da articoli e schede a contenuto prevalentemente storico su documenti rari o inediti posseduti dall'Archivio Pinelli o da altri archivi libertari. Sul Bollettino, si possono inoltre trovare informazioni bibliografiche ed editoriali, testimonianze orali originali o inedite, presentazioni di ricerche universitarie di studiosi e studenti fatte presso l'Archivio, e ancora le segnalazioni dei convegni, seminari, conferenze, ecc.

Art and Labour's Cause is One: Walter Crane and Manchester 1880 - 1915
[url]http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/waltercrane/[…]

This exhibition, featuring illustrations, political cartoons and socialist emblems, reveals how Walter Crane's connections to Manchester were central to his fusion of art and politics at the turn of the century.

Changing Europe Summer School: "Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe before and after the End of Socialism" - Kyiv, Ukraine 07/09
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Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen in cooperation with the EU Institute for Security Studies at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"with funding from the Volkswagen Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine 27.07.2009-31.07.2009, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Deadline: 11.01.2009

6 - 7 November 2008
Senate Chamber, Academic Building, Groningen

Programme

Vol.4 no.5 (October 2008)

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The following are the contents of this issue.

Contents

Editorial

Articles

Dan Tschirgi, Culture as an Element in Violent Reactions to Economic Development: An Historical View of Upper Egypt and the Gama'a al-Islamiyya

Yýlmaz Çolak, The Headscarf Issue, Women and the Public Sphere in Turkey

Le projet de publier les écrits libertaires d'Albert Camus existait depuis plusieurs années et vient de voir le jour grâce aux éditions Egrégores. Lou Marin a présenté et rassemblé ces textes. Ils mettent en évidence les sympathies politiques d'Albert Camus qui fréquentait et appréciait les anarchistes, les anarcho-syndicalistes, les syndicalistes révolutionnaires et les marxistes non totalitaires. Il a été aux côtés des Espagnols anti-franquistes, des objecteurs de conscience, des victimes des systèmes totalitaires ...

Foreign Labour in Wartime Germany: the Gender Perspective - Brussels, Belgium 12/08
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SOMA-CEGES Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society, Brussels 16.12.2008-16.12.2008, Brussels, Belgium

Symposium on 90th anniversary of German, Austrian,Hungarian revolutions and Polish nation-state

The Socialist History Society invites you to attend a symposium on the 90th anniversary of the German, Austrian, and Hungarian revolutions and the foundation of the Polish nation-state.

It will be held on Saturday 15 November 2008 at Marx House, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU.

Programme:

11.00 short introduction. Kevin Morgan (Manchester University)

Anti-Union Employer Strategy: An Historical Analysis Symposium Monday 10 November 2008

Business and Labour History Group, University of Sydney

Organisers: Rae Cooper and Greg Patmore

Full details can be found at [url]http://blhg.econ.usyd.edu.au/[/url]

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