Tag: Colonialism

Events

CFP: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour

Labour and Empire Working Group, ELHN Conference 2026: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour. University of Barcelona, 16-19 June 2026. Call for papers deadline 30 June 2025 Following up on a long-term project on working-class anti-imperialism, explored in publications (Beliard, Kirk 2021) and at conferences (most recently in Bristol 2023 and Uppsala), the European Labour History Network’s Labour & Empire Working Group … Continue reading CFP: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour

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Events, Grants

Conference: HistoryLab+ at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

Registration is now open and a final programme is available for the HistoryLab+ 2024 conference, taking place on 25-26 July 2024 at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. Find out more and register. Speakers at panel sessions include Dr Chris Townsend on ‘The Economics of Antislavery Verse’, and Alexandra Dold on ‘Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Novels: Representing … Continue reading Conference: HistoryLab+ at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

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Bursary reports, Research bursaries

Eleanor Strangways (Loughborough) on British and French anarchists and anti-imperialist movements in Africa

My PhD research seeks to examine the relationship between anarchism and imperialism, and looks specifically at the interaction between anarchists in Britain and France and the anti-imperial movements and intellectuals across Africa from 1945-1970.   In the summer of 2023, thanks to a bursary from the Society for the Study of Labour History, I had the opportunity to visit two international archive centres: the International Institute … Continue reading Eleanor Strangways (Loughborough) on British and French anarchists and anti-imperialist movements in Africa

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Events

Labour and Empire seminar series

The European Labour History Network (ELHN) Labour & Empire Working Group is organising a series of seminars for 2022-2023. Seminars will be at 4pm UK time/5pm Central European time on Zoom. They will last one and a half hours, with up to 45 minutes of presentation and 45 minutes of Q&A. To receive the Zoom link of the events and for any information, please contact the group organisers at: … Continue reading Labour and Empire seminar series

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