Social Democratic Politics in Britain 1881-1911 by Graham Johnson

The first phase of an exciting new online resource was launched last week. THE UNION MAKES US STRONG website at www.unionhistory.info will present a history of the British trade union movement since the early 19th century, based on digitised images from the TUC Library Collections.

This first phase includes a Timeline of images and documents from 1815-1960 and a History of the 1888 Match Workers Strike including digitised pages from the Strike Fund Register.

Book presentation on the occasion of the Leipzig Book Fair 2003

Hermann Weber, Bernhard H. Bayerlein (eds.): Der Thälmann-Skandal. Geheime Korrespondenzen mit Stalin, Berlin, Aufbau-Verlag, 2003. app. 365 p. Series: Archive des Kommunismus - Pfade des XX. Jahrhunderts, vol. II

Reading and discussion with Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Hermann Weber and Dr. Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Werner Bramke
Saturday, 22.03.2003, 17.30 h
Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, Grimmaische Straße 6, 04109 Leipzig (near the marketplace)

Gender- und Frauengeschichte im Historischen Forschungszentrum der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : Bestaende im Archiv der Sozialen Demokratie und in der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Sabine Boltzendahl und Ilse Fischer. - Bonn : Historisches Forschungszentrum der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2003. - 190 S. : Ill. ISBN 3-89892-148-4.

DATABASE OF AMERICAN LABOR GRAPHICS AND SIDEWALK CONTRACTOR STAMPS

Two projects of Lincoln Cushing (lcushing@library.berkeley.edu):

The first at

www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/LaborGraphicsProject.html

tries to identify labor graphic collections -- graphics, prints, posters depicting workers, labor organizations, labor culture etc. The second at

The 2nd Sources of Radicalism conference will take place in Manchester on Saturday 10th May 2003. SoR is a unique event which brings together labour historians, trade unionists and political activists to discuss the past, present and future of the radical and labour movement.

Chris Ward. Stalin's Russia. London, New York: Edward Arnold. Distributedin the USA by Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1993. 2nd edn. co-published in the USA by Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. xxvi + 278 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, bibliography and index. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-340-73151-6.

Reviewed for H-List by Andreas Umland, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

How Much Self-Reflection Does Stalinism Studies Need?

New Documents from Todor Zhivkov's Personal Records

The latest issue of Matériaux pour l'Histoire de Notre Temps, (no 68, octobre-décembre 2002) is dedicated to 'Historiens et usages publics du passé. Allemagne, Italie, Russie'.

This is the table of contents:

The New York Labor History Association (NYLHA) invites submissions of articles for its Labor History News Service.

Since 1984 NYHLA has offered labor newspapers a Labor History News Service that distributes to subscribers a labor and working class history article every month. These articles appear in dozens of subscribing labor union publications around the United States.

We would like to invite submission of articles for distribution. We are now paying $100 for each 800-word piece we accept.