Free colour leaflets giving full details of the festival are now available for display and/or distribution from TUC Publications, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Please state quantity required and full postal address for delivery.
The ESRC/AHRB 'Cultures of Consumption' Research Programme is seeking applications for an International Visiting Fellowship for 2003-4, tenable for 3 to 6 months. The fellowship will be based at Birkbeck College, London.
Requirements: PhD or equivalent, research of international excellence, institutional affiliation outside the UK.
Dead-line for applications: 30 May 2003
More information: www.consume.bbk.ac.uk
The Society for the Study of Labour History and the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library, invite applications for an Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary for 2003.
The Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary was established by the Society 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, up to a value of £200 per annum, in order to support research in the Centre's archives. Eligible applicants are postgraduate research students working on a PhD topic in labour history.
From Dr. Bernhard H. Bayerlein dr.bayerlein@uni-koeln.de
Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Mikhail Narinski, Brigitte Studer, Serge Wolikow: Moscou-Paris-Berlin 1939-1941. Télégrammes chiffrés du Komintern. Direction éditoriale Denis Peschanski, Paris, Tallandier, 2003. 614 p. 21 Euros.
Fifth European Social Science History Conference
Berlin, Germany, 24-27 March 2004
Call for papers
The deadline for proposing sessions and papers for the fifth ESSHC has been extended to May 15. The Fifth European Social Science History Conference will be held at the Humboldt University in Berlin, on 24-27 March 2004.
The network on Labour and Working Class History will use this extension to round of the formation of a number of session on which we have room for one more paper. The topics of these sessions are:
Jock McCulloch. Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State in South Africa. African Issues Series. Oxford: James Curry, and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. xviii + 252 pp. Tables, map, photographs, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-253-34127-2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-253-21541-2.
Visitors can now search the collections of the People's History Museum (Manchester) online. Over 650 objects are available to browse, and a wide range of searches is possible. Please visit www.peopleshistorymuseum.org.uk and click on the 'Search our Collections' link.
Upcoming exhibitions at the museum:
From: Juliet Barnes jbarnes@cup.org
Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870
By Beverly J. Silver
From: Emma Goldman Papers Project emma@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Announcing H-Peace: H-Net Network on Peace History and Peace Studies
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