Local Labour History Seminars
The Labour and Society Research Group has launched a series of seminars, to be held at the universities of Newcastle and Northumbria. Starting in February 2010, these events will feature papers by leading scholars in labour history and will stimulate methodological reflection on future approaches to labour history.
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 4:00 pm:
Marcel van der Linden: Global Labour History: What’s New?
Research Beehive, Room 2.22, Old Library Building, Newcastle University
Marcel van der Linden is the Research Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. His publications cover the full range of labour history, including trade unionism in national and international contexts, Marxist theories and movements, as well as theoretical approaches to the study of labour. He has recently published Workers of the World: Essays Towards a Global Labour History (Leiden: Brill, 2008). Prof. van der Linden is the Executive Editor of the International Review of Social History; since 2005, he has also been President of the International Social History Association.
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 4:00 pm:
Steve Smith: Doing Comparative Labour History
Teaching room 4, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Steve Smith is Professor of History at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, having previously been a professor at the University of Essex. He has published widely on the Russian Revolution and on Chinese labour history (with a special focus on Shanghai). His most recent book is Revolution and the People in China and Russia: A Comparative History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). His new project compares efforts by the Soviet and Chinese Communist regimes to combat ‘superstition’ in popular culture and to disseminate science and instrumental rationality. Alongside Lyndal Roper, Prof. Smith is the editor of the journal Past and Present.
Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 5:30 pm:
Chris Wrigley: Memories, Spaces and Places: Red May Days 200 Years Ago
Room 121 (Gallery Suite), Lipman Building, Northumbria University
Chris Wigley is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Nottingham. Alongside books on both A.J.P. Taylor and Winston Churchill, he has dedicated much of his research to British industrial relations since 1875, including a monograph on British Trade Unions Since 1933 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). He was President of the Historical Association, Vice President of the Royal Historical Society, and Chair of the Society for the Study of Labour History. His current research deals with Britain’s economic and social history after 1945, including work on the coal industry between 1982 and 2002.
Labour and Bombing Workshop
On 12 March 2009, LSRG members are involved in the organisation of a workshop on ‘Labour and Bombing’, held at Newcastle University. This event is part of a larger project on Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-45, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and based at the universities of Exeter, Reading and Newcastle. To find out more about this event, please contact Claudia Baldoli (claudia.baldoli@ncl.ac.uk).
