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The purpose of WG LiM is to connect researchers interested in mining issues all over the world. Collaboration and mutual exchange are highly valued by all our members. This is why we frequently launch...
Monthly Archive: January 2021
Seminar : La Mine, une affaire d’Etat (Mines, an affaire for the State) – beginning February 4th
The Seminar La Mine, une affaire d’Etat (in French) – organized by the Centre Norbert Elias and coordinated by Christine Demmer (chargée de recherche au CNRS; Boris Deschanel (maître de conférences à l’Université d’Avignon); Marion...
Online event: book launch “Coal Country” about Scottish mining history
The Institute of Historical Research and University of London Press organise a online conference for the launch of Coal Country. The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland by Ewan Gibbs (University of...
Selected Proposals for ELHN-WORCK Vienna 2021
We are glad to release the titles of papers selected for LiM Sessions in the next 4th ELHN-WORK Conference, that will take place from the 30th of Augurst to the 1st of September 2021...
CFP Twentieth Century Communism journal : Miners and Communism.
CFP Miners played a major role in the international communist movement. They often provided its most important activists and leaders, from Edvard Gierek to Mick McGahey. Coalfields often became political micro-climates where embattled Reds...
Conference: Comparing the Copperbelt, Oxford 17-19 June 2021
Originally planned for February 2021, the conference is postponed to June 2021. Click here for more information
Articles’ selection #7: winter 2020
Overviews Geerkens Éric, Leboutte René, Péters Arnaud, “Le travail des ouvriers mineurs en Belgique (ca 1830-1930) “, Revue du Nord, 2020/2 (435), p. 289-309. Politics Duncan Money, Hans Otto Frøland, Tshepo Gwatiwa, Africa–EU relations and...
Books’ selection #1 : 2019-2020
2019 Stefan Berger, Peter Alexander, Making Sense of Mining History. Themes and Agendas, Taylor and Francis, 20119. Sergio Tonatiuh Serrano Hernández, La golosina del oro. La producción de metales preciosos en San Luis Potosí...
