The Spanish Civil War began on 17 July 1936, when a military coup, aided by Italian and German forces, attempted to overthrow Spain’s democratically elected government. Spanish Morocco fell under military control with little resistance, as did the Canary and Balearic Islands. On 18 July 1936, General Francisco Franco spoke on a radio broadcast from the Canary Islands, announcing the military takeover. On the mainland, however, the revolt faced stiff resistance, especially in the urban and industrialised centres.

Call for Papers: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Women's Cinema in the GDR and Poland 1945-1989

International Workshop: Leipzig, 14-16 November 2019

Socialist networks and the remaking of European international policy after 1945:

power, solidarity and normative regimes in transnational perspective

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London

21-22 November 2019

With the support of the Institut universitaire de France

The large-scale digitisation of newspapers over the past decade has facilitated access to newspaper collections but also raised a series of issues for both libraries and users, and more specifically researchers: What does it mean to work in new ways with the traditional historical source that are newspapers? How does the formal transformation of this source from analogue, microfilm and paper collections to digital ones affect research practices and questions?

Tackling Coerced Labour Regimes in Asia: Towards a Comparative Model

Call for Papers

For a panel proposal ‘Tackling Coerced Labour Regimes in Asia: Towards a Comparative Model’ for the Sixth Conference of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) on 25-28 June 2020 in Turku, Finland.

Organizers: Kate Ekama (University of Stellenbosch) and Matthias van Rossum (International Institute of Social History)

Acaba de aparecer el libro digital Internacionalismo obrero: experiencias del sindicalismo internacional (1888-1986), editado por la Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero y dirigido por Manuela Aroca.