After 19 years as Librarian here, Alain Kahan is retiring at the end of March. He will still be around for a couple of days a week while his replacement is found and trained in.

The Trustees are advertising for a Librarian to assist them in the transfer of control from the local authority and to lead in continuing the development of this valuable collection as a major educational and research resource. Any qualified librarians interested in the post should contact us for more details.

23 de marzo de 2006

"60º Aniversario de la muerte de F. Largo Caballero 1869-1946"

12 horas:
Ofrenda de flores en el Cementerio Civil de la Almudena
Participan:
Antón Saracibar, Presidente de la Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero
José Ricardo Martínez, Secretario General de UGT-Madrid

The Society for the Study of Labour History and Historical Studies inIndustrial Relations

The History of Strikes, Lock-Outs and General Strikes

ConferenceKeele University
6 May 2006

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the British General Strike and miners lock-out, the Society for the Study of Labour History and Historical Studies in Industrial Relations have jointly organised a conference on the historical experience of strikes.

To recognize serious study in labor and work history among undergraduate students, the New York Labor History Association will award the Barbara Wertheimer Prize of $100.00 for the best research paper written during the 2005-2006 academic year. The winning entry will, with permission, be posted in the NYLHA website. Please encourage your best undergraduate students to submit their work.

Papers on any aspect of labor or work history will be considered. Entries will be evaluated on the basis of scholarship and literary merit.

Applications are invited for the Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary. The bursary has been established by the Society for the Study of Labour History 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, in the value of up to £200 per annum, in order to support research in the MRC archive.

The Labour History Archive and Study Centre holds the archives of the Labour Party and the British Communist Party as well as collections that document many aspects of the history of radical political struggle in the UK since the mid-nineteenth century.

As part of a programme of activities designed to promote the study of the collections to new audiences we are organising a day conference called Culture in Radical Politics.

S.L. Publications has published a facsimile edition of Fight For the Fourth International, which ran from October 1936 to November 1937 and was the first Trotskyist periodical in Britain to express the views of an independent Trotskyist organisation: 218 pages, A4 format paperback, price: £ 20, US$ 35, 280 Skr + freight

Contents:

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas is pleased to announce the winners of its first Best Article prize competition.

John Donoghue, 'Unfree Labor, Imperialism, and Radical Republicanism in the Atlantic World, 1630-1661' in Volume 1 Number 4. Reminding us that religious, political, and economic ideas flowed in myriad channels throughout the Atlantic world, Donoghue provides new insights into how the experiences of Puritan refugees in New England shaped their subsequent resistance to Cromwell in Old England.

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The editors of Encyclopedia of Revolutions, Uprisings, and Popular Movements, a 5 volume reference set edited by Immanuel Ness, to be published by Facts on File are looking for entries on Eastern Europe.

This project is intended as a major reference work on social unrest and revolutions in history. We are searching for authors of entries on Eastern Europe, in particular on: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine.

Seminar Announcement:

For the first time ever, the story of New Zealand's involvement in the Spanish Civil War will be publicly examined. The Trade Union History Project will host a major seminar in Wellington, NZ on the weekend of 4-5 November 2006. A number of specialist experts, both academic and otherwise, have agreed to speak on subjects such as the New Zealanders in the International Brigade, New Zealand non-combatants such as doctors and nurses, the role of NZ trade unions to the civil war, the position of the Catholic Church, and the Quaker fundraising campaign.