New items on the IISH website in April - May 2010:
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4 June 2010: Lecture by Ervand Abrahamian on the role of crowds in Iranian history.
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Contents, summaries, and bibliography of volume 55 part 1 of the 'International Review of Social History'.
Call for Papers - Towards a global history of the consumer co-operative movement
Please see the call for papers below. We would be very pleased to hear from researchers working on the history of consumer co-operation in any part of the world, in any period. For more information please contact Mary Hilson, [mailto]m.hilson@ucl.ac.uk[/mailto]
Business & Labour History Symposium:
Globalisation and Labour in the Pacific: Re-evaluating the 1890 Maritime Strike,
9.00-5.30pm, Thursday 4 November 2010, Copthorne Hotel Auckland City, New Zealand.
50th anniversary of the Society for the Study of Labour History marked with journal special issue
The Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) marks its 50th anniversary in May 2010 with a special issue of its journal Labour History Review on Making History: Labour Organizations Since 1960. The issue comprises of four articles tracing the development of labour history societies in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales:
Introduction: Fifty Years On
John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, John Halstead and David Martin
Call for Papers for the
I. Workshop on "Dimensions of Socialisms"
November 18-19, 2010
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Founding Meeting of the Network "History of Societies and Socialisms"
Deadline for Proposals: May 20, 2010
Goals & Intentions:
IALHI is proud to announce an ambitious project: HOPE. Within this project, co-financed by the European Commission, thirteen IALHI members are going to make their digital collections available.
HOPE - Heritage of the People's Europe
Thirteen IALHI members are going to make their digital collections available in the framework of an ambitious new EU project: Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE).
The worker's collective representation. Normative procedures in France, 1936-1968
Comité d'histoire des Administrations chargées du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Formation Professionnelle (CHATEFP), Ministère du Travail, de la solidarité et de la fonction publique
Deadline: 01.09.2010
CFP: "Women of the world": Women's International Activism in National Contexts from the 19th to the mid-20th Century
UFR Angellier "Langue, Littérature et Civilisations des pays anglophones", Université de Lille 3 13.05.2011, Lille
Deadline: 15.07.2010
This workshop is to focus on the articulation between women's international mobilisations and the national contexts in which they are set. What we wish to cover is the strategies of local, regional, national or supra-national women's organisations towards these new forms of international activism.
zwischenWelten: Frauen in Migrationsprozessen (18.-21. Jh.)
Frauen & Geschichte Baden-Württemberg e.V.; in Zusammenarbeit mit der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg, Bad Urach 25.06.2010-27.06.2010, Haus auf der Alb, Hanner Steige 1, 72574 Bad UrachDeadline: 01.06.2010
Talk on the C19th gangs of Manchester and Salford
On Wednesday 12 May at 6pm the Working Class Movement Library will host the latest in a series of talks accompanying the exhibition 'Invisible Histories: Salford's Working Lives'.
In 'The Gangs of Victorian Salford and Manchester' Andrew Davies will tell tales of scuttling and knife-crime on 19th century streets, and ask what can be learned from Victorian attempts to deal with youth gangs.
