Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read,
edited by Michael Paraskos and published by the Freedom Press, London

The Freedom Press has just published a new collection of essays on the anarchist writer Herbert Read (1893-1968).

Based on the papers given at the 2004 Herbert Read Conference, held in London, the book includes essays by sixteen writers, including Allan Antliff, Jerry Zaslove and Dana Ward. The topics range from Read's anarchist politics, to his own literary work, as well as his theories of art, literature and culture.List of essays:

IISH News Service May 6, 2008
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New items on the IISH website in April 2008:

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On 29 April the American sociologist and historian Charles Tilly died. For twenty years he served the IISH as a formal and informal adviser, and made significant contributions to our academic and editorial policies.

ArcheoBiblioBase directory

Call for Papers: Kommunistische Bewegung in Westeuropa seit 1945Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2010

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 Rezensions-Apparats von Band 48 (2008) des Archiv für Sozialgeschichte und sind im Internet als Volltexte zugänglich:
[url]http://library.fes.de/afs-online/fr-rezensionen.html[/url]

Out now, a collection of articles on the Ragusa anti-draft revolt of 1945:Rebellious Spirit : Maria Occhipinti and the Ragusa Anti-Draft Revolt of 1945. As well as the revolt and its aftermath (including an extract from Occhipinti's story of being imprisoned afterwards) it includes writings by and about some of its leading figures, Maria Occhipinti and Franco Leggio.
Find out about a time when "Stop the War" meant "Start the Revolution".

La Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" comunica

E' uscito per la collana Società e Cultura il volume:

Maurizio Degl'Innocenti
Garibaldi e l'Ottocento
Nazione, popolo, volontariato, associazione
Piero Lacaita Editore
collana Società e Culturapp. 267 €. 10,00

Forskningsrådet vid Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek har utsett Jimmy Engren till 2008 års Rudolf Meidner-pristagare.

Se utdrag ur pressmeddelandet:

Engren är en av de få svenska historiker som har gett sig i kast med ett icke-svenskt ämne, och spännvidden av undersökningsområdet i denna mycket väl genomförda avhandling imponerar, även när det gäller undersökningsperiodens längd.

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The International Institute of Social History presents "A Very Short History of Secret Societies" ([url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/secretsocieties/[/url]). It consists of a general introduction and brief notes on the Freemasons, Jesuits, Illuminati, Carbonari, Burschenschaften, the mysterious Great Firmament, societies in France, Germany, Russia, the USA and Asia, and older precursors.

The texts are enriched by twelve illustrations from the IISH collections:

German Migrants and European Development: In-migration, acculturation and identity from the eighteenth century to the present day