The London Socialist Historians Group is pleased to announce the establishment of the Socialist Historians Message Board, atwww.londonsocialisthistorians.org/messageboard.

Sources of Radicalism - a major conference on the history of radical political, industrial, social and cultural movements - will take place in Manchester on 11th May.

There will be a wide range of topics discussed including Anti-fascism, the Irish in Britain, Women Trade Union League, the 1945 Pan African Congress in Manchester, the General Strike of 1926, 1970s radical press, contemporary trade unionism, politics and the internet, punk and disco music and Palestine.

A transnational project co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of Culture 2000 Programme

Project leader: Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico (Italy)

Co-organisers:
AMSAB (Belgium)
Discoteca di stato (Italy)
Institut CGT d'Histoire sociale (France)
Istituto per il lavoro (Italy)
Narodni filmovy archiv (Czech Republic)
Työväen Arkisto (Finland)

A Critical Condition? Class and the Practice of History in the Twenty-first Century
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
15th June 2002
Department of History, University of Essex

Final Call for Papers

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Steve Smith - University of Essex
Dr Simon Gunn - Leeds Metropolitan University

XXII MEETING APHES
Aveiro (Portugal) 15-16 November 2002

Call for Papers

The Portuguese Economic and Social History Association (Associacao Portuguesa de Historia Economica e Social - APHES) holds its XXII Meeting in Aveiro, on 15-16 November 2002.

The general theme of the XXII Meeting is "Enterprises and Institutions in Historical Perspective." However, following the practice of previous meetings, papers on other themes of economic and social history are welcome.

Last night at the University of Melbourne the Hon Justice Geoffrey M Giudice, President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, launched a unique online resource to provide labour and trade union history scholars with a one-stop-shop to source material.

6th Annual Conference
University of Missouri-St. Louis
May 31st-June 1st, 2002

Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov. Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents. Documents compiled by Ludmila Kosheleva, Larisa Rogovaia, Lewis Siegelbaum, Andrei Sokolov, Vladimir Telpukhovsky, and Sergei Zhuravlev. Translated by Thomas Hoisington and Steven Shabad. "Annals of Communism" series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xvii + 460 pp. Includes bibliographical references, photographs, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08480-3.

Robert Harms. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xxv + 466 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-465-02871-3.

Reviewed by Thomas N. Ingersoll, Department of History, Ohio State University, Lima.
Published by H-Atlantic (February, 2002).

Into those Waves, Never to Return

Christian F. Ostermann. Uprising in East Germany 1953: The Cold War, The German Question, and The First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain. National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2001. xxxvii + 451 pp. Index. $63.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9241-17-2.

Reviewed by Ruud van Dijk, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Published by H-German (March, 2002).