British Miners Strike 1984-5

Twenty Years On! The Great Miners Strike in Historical and International Perspective

Saturday November 1st 2003
Institute of Historical Research
Malet St, London

March 2004 marks the twentieth anniversary of the start of the 1984/5 British miners strike, one of the great labour struggles of the second half of the twentieth century.

Working Women of the Old South

Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie, eds. Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. viii + 324 pp. Tables, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2735-5; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-5410-7.

Reviewed by Kathleen Blain Roberts, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published by H-SAWH (March, 2003).

Beyond the Plantation Household

Tolpuddle Festival

Free colour leaflets giving full details of the festival are now available for display and/or distribution from TUC Publications, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Please state quantity required and full postal address for delivery.

Cultures of Consumption

The ESRC/AHRB 'Cultures of Consumption' Research Programme is seeking applications for an International Visiting Fellowship for 2003-4, tenable for 3 to 6 months. The fellowship will be based at Birkbeck College, London.

Requirements: PhD or equivalent, research of international excellence, institutional affiliation outside the UK.

Dead-line for applications: 30 May 2003

More information: www.consume.bbk.ac.uk

Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary

The Society for the Study of Labour History and the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library, invite applications for an Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary for 2003.

The Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary was established by the Society in honour of one of its distinguished founders and past Presidents. It is tenable at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, up to a value of £200 per annum, in order to support research in the Centre's archives. Eligible applicants are postgraduate research students working on a PhD topic in labour history.