In the latest issue of the International Review of Social History (volume 60 part 1, April 2015), Niall Whelehan compares cartoons on revolting peasants in British and Italian 19th century satirical magazines. In some 19th century British satirical magazines, ape-like facial features were employed to illustrate anarchists and nihilists, in order to personify visually political threats to order and stability. During periods of rural unrest in Ireland, however, the figures of simian and reptilian monsters became primarily attached to Irish agitators and peasants.

Workers’ consent to populist/fascist/extreme-right movements
Call for papers

First Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN),
Turin (Italy), 14-16 December 2015

Wolfgang Emmerich: Lebensläufe von ganz unten.

Vortrag im Begleitprogramm zur Ausstellung

"Durch Nacht zum Licht. Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung 1863-2013".

Der Vortrag ist eine Kooperationsveranstaltung zwischen dem LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Zollern und dem Fritz-Hüser-Institut.

Autobiographien erfreuen sich immer wieder einer zahlreichen Leserschaft, erhofft sie sich doch von der Lektüre Einblicke und Erkenntnisse über die schreibende Person und ihr Handeln, die ansonsten der Öffentlichkeit verborgen geblieben wären.

Please find the call for collaboration on a project initiated by the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands.
With this project we aim at collecting data on labour conflicts on a global scale from 1500 to the present.
This new project is a follow-up of the repository https://collab.iisg.nl/web/labourconflicts/ where data is presented from a number of countries.

Recently, Roger Knight’s Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1885 appeared. This book brings together the findings of Knight’s decades of research on the Java sugar industry. We would like to invite you to a discussion seminar on this important work at the International Institute of Social History on Wednesday 10 June at 15.30.  

Programme:

15.30-15.40 Welcome by Ulbe Bosma (Senior Researcher IISH)

15.40-16.00 Roger Knight

16.00-16.20 Comment by Alicia Schrikker (Lecturer Institute for History Leiden University)

1st Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) 14 – 16 December 2015, Torino/Turin (Italy)

Pre-industrial labour history group

Giulio Ongaro (University of Verona), Fabrizio Novellino (University of Trento)

Women’s work in the rural areas: a long-term perspective (XII-XXI century)
Call for papers

First Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN), Turin (Italy), 14-16 December 2015

ELHN – Feminist Labour History Group; SISLav – Labour and Rural Workers Group

Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv Newsletter 3/2015

Vor 70 Jahren:
Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa und die Schweiz

Invitación FFLC "Prensa obrera (1964-1982): De la clandestinidad a la legalización", 21 de mayo, 18,30 h. Salón de actos del Archivo Histórico Nacional

Il y a 70 ans en France, les femmes se rendaient pour la première fois aux urnes... l'occasion pour la BDIC de vous faire redécouvrir "The Suffragette", une collection emblématique de la presse féministe.
Ces militantes de la "première vague" (fin 19ème-début 20ème s.) ont contribué à faire avancer et reconnaitre les droits politiques des femmes en Europe.
Le mot clé "Périodiques du féminisme" vous permet d'accéder aux titres déjà numérisés dans l'Argonnaute. Ce fonds sera amené à s'enrichir très prochainement.