To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Louise Michel's death, the IISH presents a selection of documents of her life. As a communarde, determined revolutionary, and romantic writer, Louise Michel's revolutionary engagement originated in her opposition to Napoleon III during the Second Empire. In 1871, with the Paris Commune, her opposition to the bourgeois republic led by Adolphe Thiers became increasingly pronounced, and by 1880, her anarchist views clashed with the policies of the Third Republic.

From Carol Murphy, Library SIPTU College, Dublin,

Globalised cinema presents very few opportunities to working men and women to see films that portray the lives and struggles of those individuals who take on the rich and powerful so as to lift ordinary people out of poverty and oppression. Too often, cinema presents a fantasy world in which glamour and celebrity are elevated and in which the interests of the elite are served against the best interest of workers and the marginalised.

Hans-Ulrich Wehler Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte--Vierter Band: Vom Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs bis zur Gruendung der beiden deutschen Staaten 1914-1949. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2003. xxiv + 1173 pp. Index. EUR 59.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-406-32264-6.

Reviewed by: David F. Crew, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
Published by: H-German (June, 2005)

From Mrs Christine Woodland,

Family and Household in Urban East and Southeast Europe (20th century)
Workshop, Graz, May 18-20, 2006

The workshop will be organised by the Department of South East European History (University of Graz, Austria) and the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Balkan Societies and Cultures (CSBSC).

Participants: 15-20

Household Strategies in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe: Coping with Demographic and Economic Shock
Session 81 of the XIVth International Economic History Congress

Calling for papers. For further inquiries, please contact the session organizer.

Household Strategies in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe: Coping with Demographic and Economic Shock

International appeal for a French Centre d'histoire internationale contemporaine

The BDIC is launching a a Support Network for the reunification of the BDIC Library (Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine - Paris, Nanterre) and its Museum (Musée d'histoire contemporaine - Paris, Hôtel des Invalides)

I would be pleased to hear from anybody who would like to contribute a book review to the 2005 issue of the North West labour history journal. This will be our 30th annual issue. The journal is aimed at those with a general interest in the history of the working class and labour movement in the North West of England. We welcome contributors and reviewers from all backgrounds. We wish to include a wide range of reviews of cultural, social and political history of books, films, drama and other forms.

Please contact Michael Herbert, reviews editor, .

Authors needed to write entries for the Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History, (Eric Arnesen, editor) to be published in three volumes by Routledge in November 2006.

Study Group on the Russian Revolution
XXXII Conference
Nottingham, United Kingdom
3 - 5 January 2006

Call for papers
The call for papers for the study group's thirty-second conference is now open. Proposals for panels and for individual papers are welcomed, covering the period from the 1880s up until 1932. We welcome papers that draw on ongoing or recent research relating to revolutionary Russia.

Papers can be submitted and presented either in English or in Russian. Papers in Russian should be accompanied by an English abstract.