From: Peter Kardas,

Ports, Borders, and Labor in the Pacific Northwest
The 38th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
Co-Sponsored by the Labor Center at The Evergreen State College
June 2 - 4, 2006
Location: Olympia (WA) Campus, The Evergreen State College

We invite your ideas and participation in planning a conference which will bring together union and community activists and scholars. Workshops, Panels, & Cultural Presentations will focus on (among other things):

Call for Applications

International Centre for Russian Studies - Summer History Workshop, 22-24 June 2005, Moscow(www.icrs.ru/news/)

Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies in History, Economy and Society (Moscow, Russia)
Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (Moscow, Russia)
State Socio-Political Library (Moscow, Russia)

H-Net Book Review
Published by [MAILTO]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/MAILTO] (April 2005)

Douglas Hay and Paul Craven (eds.), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955. Studies in Legal History Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi + 592 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2877-7.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Phil Withington, Department of History, University of Aberdeen

From: Grütter Thomas ()

Peter Lang - European Academic Publishers are pleased to announce a new book by Kevin Morgan / Gidon Cohen / Andrew Flinn (eds.), Agents of the Revolution. New Biographical Approaches to the History of International Communism in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2005. 319 pp., 6 tables, ISBN 3-03910-075-0 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6891-6 pb.

Giornata di studi "Camillo Berneri. Singolare plurale"

28 Maggio 2005

Reggio Emilia
Sala Convegni Hotel Posta
Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo
Piazza del Monte 2

Presentazione e programma:
http://raforum.apinc.org/article.php3?id_article=2753&lang=it

Announcement: SandS - Socialism and Sexuality Discussion List

The SandS discussion list is part of an academic network promoting scholarly work on socialism and sexuality. For a history of the network's activities, see the Socialism and Sexuality Homepage, www.iisg.nl/~womhist/socandsex.html.

Labor History, the flagship journal of historical labor studies, takes great pride in announcing the winners of its Best Articles in Labor History, 2004 competition. These are the first winners of what will be annual prizes to promote excellence in labor scholarship. Further competitions - and details of how to apply -- will be announced later in the year.

Annemarie Steidl, Auf nach Wien! Die Mobilität des mitteleuropäischen Handwerks im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der Haupt- und Residenzstadt. Sozial-und Wirtschaftshistorische Studien, Institut für Wirtschafts-und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien. Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 2003. 333 pp. Index. EUR 49.80 (paper), ISBN 3486567381.

Reviewed by: Dieter Anton Halbwidl, Independent Scholar (Montréal, Canada).
Published by: H-German (January, 2005)

Natalia Tikhonov ()

Call for papers
History, Gender and Migration (Atlantic world XIXth and XXth century)

A conference organised by the Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXe Siècle (Université Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne) and L'Équipe Réseaux, Savoirs, Territoires (École Normale Supérieure)

Location:
Paris, École Normale Supérieure and Université Paris I
Dates: 27-29th of March 2006
Proposal submission deadline: 10/1/2005

The Summer 2005 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and can be downloaded from the LSHG web site.

This issue contains an obituary of the Egyptian labour historian, Taha Sa'ad Uthmann, by Anne Alexander, a review of David Renton's books on Classical Marxism and Dissident Marxism by Nik Howard, and a review of David Black's new biography of Helen Macfarlane by Keith Flett.

It also contains, as usual, news and announcements of forthcoming seminars and other events of interest to socialist historians in the London area and beyond.