Socialists and marriage
International Socialism & Sexuality conference at the Laboratoire de Démographie historique de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS - Paris), Paris, France, 6-7 October, 2006.

Les socialistes et le mariage
Socialisme et sexualité: session des 6 et 7 octobre 2006. Laboratoire de Démographie historique de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS - Paris)

Call for papers
Send a brief abstract (250 words) and a short CV - Deadline: January 15, 2006.

Journées d'études internationales
Bruxelles, 21-22 Octobre 2005

Presse communiste, presse radicale (1919-2000): rôle, organisation et perspectives

De la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, une presse écrite radicale (allant de la gauche à l'extrême gauche, à travers toutes les nuances qu'a revêtues cette dernière) a scandé l'actualité et le combat politiques, s'érigeant en porte-parole, en agitateur, en organisateur et parfois même en raison d'être de multiples organisations.

Barbara Freese. Coal: A Human History. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $14.00 (paper), ISBN 0142000981.

Reviewed for H-Environment by Jan Kunnas, University of Helsinki

An Inhuman History with a Happy End?

Dear Labor Scholars,

Cold War History: Call for submissions

As the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, scholars of contemporary international affairs started taking a new look at the basic conflicts that had dominated the latter part of the twentieth century. Over the last fifteen years a new historical literature on the Cold War era has come into being, greatly helped by the increase in access to archives and other source materials in most countries of the world, from the former Communist states in Europe, to China, to South Africa and elsewhere.

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La situación social en España
Este libro presenta los resultados de la investigación realizada por una red de diversos centros y universidades españolas, bajo la dirección de Vicenç Navarro, que ha tenido como objetivo documentar la situación social de España.

As part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the 8 hour day in Melbourne, Australia in 2006, two conferences, run on consecutive days, will be held to explore both historical and contemporary dimensions of working time issues. Below is the call for papers for each conference.

Working to Live: Histories of the 8 Hour Day & Working Life History Conference
20-21 June 2006
Call for Papers

The Tamiment Seminar in Labor and Social History is designed to bring together faculty and graduate students to discuss work in progress. We believe that we have an exciting program this year. The seminar is transnational in focus and defines the disciplines of labor and social history rather broadly. Papers are pre-circulated.

The seminar meets in the Tamiment Library conference room from 6:30 - 8:30 (10th floor, New York University's Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South).

H-NET Book Review
Published by H-Albion (June 2005)

Marc Brodie. The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. viii + 240 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-1992-7055-4.

Reviewed by: Michael Childs, Department of History, Bishop's University, Quebec, Canada.
Published by: H-Albion (June, 2005)

H-NET Book Review
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Martin Mevius. Agents of Moscow: The Hungarian Communist Party and the Origins of Socialist Patriotism 1941-1953. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiii + 295 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-927461-4.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Johanna Granville, Fulbright scholar, Urals State University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Hungarian Nationalism to Sell Socialism: Caveat Emptor