Labour History number 101 is out now

The November 2011 issue contains 10 high-quality articles covering a wide variety of topics as well as a bumper crop of book reviews. Click here for more information.

Other News

• Labour and Anzac. A one-day conference is being held on Friday 21 September 2012 at the National Archives of Australia, Canberra, to consider what labour history and labour historians have to contribute to an understanding of the history of Anzac. Selected papers from this conference will be published in a special ‘thematic’ issue of Labour History. Click here, for more information. Expressions of interest and abstracts of 200 words should be sent to frank.bongiorno@anu.edu.au by 28 May 2012.
• A new ASSLH constitution was approved by a Special General Meeting held Thursday 19 April 2012, Macquarie University. For a copy of the constitution, click here.
• Michael Hogan (ed.), Labor Pains: Early Conference and Executive Reports of the Labor Party of NSW, volumes 4 (1918-25) and 5 (1926-39). These two volumes contain valuable documents that trace the history of the NSW Labor Party during the 1920s and 1930s, some of the stormiest and most faction-ridden years of a party well used to internal conflict. They also chart the rise of Jack Lang to a virtual dictatorship within the party. While the first three volumes of this work were published by The Federation Press, the last two are freely available online via the Sydney eScholarship Repository: http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/7879
• The Redmond Barry Fellowship for 2012 is now open for applications. Applications close 27 April 2012. The fellowship is named in honour of Sir Redmond Barry (1813-1880), a founder of the University of Melbourne and the State Library of Victoria. Up to $20,000 is awarded to scholars and writers to facilitate research and the production of works of literature that utilise the collections of the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne. For more information, click here.
• Eric Fry Research Grant. The Canberra Region Branch of ASSLH and the Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA) at the ANU invite honours and postgraduate students to apply for a $1,000 grant to do research at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre. For more information, click here.