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Associations and Societies
Specialized Associations and Societies
International Associations and Societies
Lists of Associations and Societies
Specialized Associations and Societies
- After Slavery This international research collaboration (Queen’s University Belfast, the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina and the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University) promises to make available scanned copies of original documents from freedpeople, their allies and adversaries; contemporary images and interactive maps; extensive searchable bibliographies; blogs, podcasts and online interviews featuring some of the leading scholars in the field and other materials.
- Agricultural History Society General information, journal.
- Alcohol and Drugs History Society Formerly the Alcohol and History Temperance Group. The website is the online home of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal (SHAD), formerly The Social History of Alcohol Review and contains news, reviews and other texts on the use of alcohol and drugs and temperance in the USA and other parts of the world.
- Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft (Vienna). Keeper of the records of the Kommunistische Partei Österreichs. General information.
- American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
- American Printing History Association Newsletter, journal.
- American Sociological Association Information about the Association and its sections and committees, which include sections on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Family, History of Sociology, International Migration, Labor and Labor Movements, and Marxist sociology.
- American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements General information, newsletter, calls for papers and other announcements.
- Amis des Combattants en Espagne républicaine General information.
- Anarchist Librarians Web A network of radical and anarchist librarians. Links, reference, list server.
- Anarchist Studies Network A Political Studies Association (UK), Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism. General information, calls for papers, news, links.
- Arbeitskreis für Moderne Sozialgeschichte German association for modern social history. General information.
- Arbeitskreis für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Schleswig-Holsteins General information, project information, a timeline.
- Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung German working group for peace history and peace studies
- Archivo Guerra y Exilio Circulars of the association, online documents.
- Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (AABI)
- Asociación Mexicana de Archivos y Bibliotecas Privados
- Asociación para el Estudio de los Exilios y Migraciones Ibéricos Contemporáneos Review, bulletin.
- Associaçăo Portuguesa de História Económica e Social General information, a directory, online bulletin, links.
- Association for Economic and Social Analysis (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). Journal (Rethinking Marxism), bibliography, conferences.
- Association for History and Computing Journal, links.
- Association for the History of the Northern Seas (AHNS) Founded to promote research and co-operation in the maritime history of the Northern Seas area, from the Baltic to the North Atlantic, and the encouragement of international links between scholars, scholarly institutions, museums and students.
- Association of European Migration Institutions General information, links.
- Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Newsletter, journal, links.
- Association of Masonic Museums, Libraries and Archives AMMLA General information, listings of museums, libraries and archives, interactive information service.
- Association of Public Data Users General information.
- Association pour l'Etude de l'Histoire du Mouvement Ouvrier (AEHMO) Swiss organization for the collection and preservation of documents of the labour mouvement. Information about the Association's and other collections, and AEHMO publications including the 'Cahiers d'histoire du mouvement ouvrier'.
- Associazione nazionale Sandro Pertini Overview of his personal papers, biography, photo's.
- Australian Mining History Bibliography Compiled on behalf of the AMHA by Mel Davies, University of Western Australia, 1997
- Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Directory, journal.
- Australian Society of Archivists Home Page Membership information, and a directory of archives in Australia.
- BASEES Study Group on the Russian Revolution This study group of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies aims to help promote new approaches to the study of the Russian revolution between the 1880s and 1932. It has an annual international conference and a journal, Revolutionary Russia
- British Universities Industrial Relations Association The UK association of academics in industrial relations and associated disciplines, at Keele University. Newsletter, links.
- bundism.net A transnational network of scholars who have a common interest in the history and ideas of the Jewish Labor Bund. Apart from general info about the network the website will publish a sorted link list, a bibliography on the Bund and various other information.
- Canadian Association for the History of Nursing / l'Association canadienne pour l'histoire du nursing (CAHN/ACHN) General information, newsletter, a Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
- Canadian Committee on Labour History Directory, journal, links.
- Canadian Industrial Relations Association Directory, list of publications, links.
- Centro studi Feliciano Rossitto (Ragusa). Overview of its collections, mainly on the socio-political history of Sicily.
- Centro Studi Francesco Saverio Merlino Website devoted to the Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism, Francesco Saverio Merlino (1856-1930).
- Centro Studi Francesco Saverio Merlino Website devoted to the Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism, Francesco Saverio Merlino (1856-1930), an Italian lawyer.
- CESSDA The Council for European Social Science Data Archives CESSDA promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe. Directory, data portal.
- Cliometric Society Directory, list of publications.
- CODHOS Collectif des centres de documentation en histoire ouvričre et sociale Association of labour history institutions in France. The website provides detailed information on the collections, addresses, opening hours etc. of the member institutions.
- Comité Régional Nord Pas-de-Calais
d’Histoire de la Sécurité Sociale
et de la Protection Sociale
"Dictionnaire des acteurs sociaux de la région"; periodical Prévoyance, Passé, Présent, Avenir.
- Committee of Industrial Relations Librarians Directory.
- Communal Studies Association Conferences, journal, newsletter
- Conference of Socialist Economists CSE is an international organisation committed to developing a materialist critique of capitalism. It organises and supports conferences and seminars and, since 1977, has published Capital & Class.
- Dansk Sygeplejehistorisk Selskab The Danish Society of Nursing History. General information, online articles, English page.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie: Arbeitskreis Migration - Integration - Minderheiten The German Society for Demography's working group for migration, integration and minorities. General information, conferences.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pflegewissenschaft General information on the German Society of Nursing Science, an independent forum for the development and promotion of nursing science and nursing research in Germany.
- Dirk van Eck-Stichting Leiden: sociale en economische geschiedenis van Leiden en omstreken An organization for the popularization of the social and economic history of Leiden, the Netherlands. General information in Dutch.
- Dublin Labour Studies Group "A forum for the discussion of issues in labour economics". Working papers and other publications.
- Economic and Social History Society of Ireland (Dublin). General information about the Society and its journal - Irish Economic and Social History.
- Espaces Marx General information.
- European Association of Labour Economists Directory, conference information, bulletin board.
- Family and Community Historical Research Society General information.
- Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF) Founded in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of the world's leading film archives whose purpose has been to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures. Today, more than 120 archives in over 65 countries collect, restore, and exhibit films and cinema documentation spanning the entire history of film.
- Förderverein für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Berlin). A German association established in 1992 for the promotion of researching and educating the history of the labour movement and other social movements. General information, tables of contents of their JahrBuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung.
- Fourier, Charles - charlesfourier.fr Website of the Association d'études fouriéristes and the Cahiers Charles Fourier.
- Friendly Societies Research Group A UK based international network to promote research into the history and operation of friendly societies. General information, an online newsletter, a list of -mainly British- current societies.
- Génériques Association for French migrant history working to preserve migrants' organizations archives and personal papers and to make them accessible. Its site gives acces to various resources, including guides to archival collections, databases for posters, newspapers, and biographical information.
- GERME (Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements étudiants). Documents on the French student movement, 1968-1986. Under construction.
- Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (GfE) (Marburg). An international interdisciplinary organization founded in 1984; publisher of Exilforschung. Ein internationales Jahrbuch and a newsletter, Neuer Nachrichtenbrief.
- Gramsci - International Gramsci Society Website offering resources on the life and work of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), the Italian socialist, political theorist, and activist. The IGS also publishes the International Gramsci Journal.
- Greater New Haven Labor History Association General information, a "starter's list of printed sources for the New Haven labor historian", a few web links.
- Grupo de Estudios sobre la Historia Contemporánea de Extremadura (GEHCEX)
- H.R. Nicholls Society Proceedings of its conferences.
- Illinois Labor History Society Articles about the Haymarket Tragedy and other important events in Chicago labour history, educational materials, links to other American labour history websites.
- Immigration and Ethnic History Society Aims to promote the study of the history of immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world, including studies of the background of emigration in the countries of origin; to promote the study of ethnic groups in the United States, including regional groups, native Americans and forced immigrants.
- Industrial Relations Research Association Directory, list of publications.
- International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility T2M General information, news, conference.
- Kommission Arbeitskulturen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. Information about the Commission's activities and publications, contact information.
- Kritische Geschichte. Netzwerk Gesellschaftskritik und Geschichtswissenschaft Website of a German network for social criticism and history. You need to open a uswer account.
- Labor and Working Class History Association LAWCHA: an organization of scholars, union members, students and citizens promoting a wider understanding of the history of working class people, their communities, and their organizations in the United States.
- Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists
- Labor History Museums, Centers and Societies A list of mainly US institutions from the Labor and Working Class History Association LAWCHA website
- Labour Movements Group of the Political Studies Association. Conference proceedings, links.
- Latin American Labor History Conference General information.
- Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society Llafur's aims include bringing together those interested in the history of the working class and its organisations, unions, co-operative societies or political bodies.
- London Socialist Historians Group The official blog of the LSHG
- Manchester's Radical History The Manchester Radical History Collective's blog devoted to the city's radical and grassroots history.
- Mémoire, Industrie, Patrimoine en Provence Directory, journal Industries en Provence, Musée industriel virtuel
- Memorial - Moscow Documentary and research centre on human rights in past and present. Cyrillic font.
- Memorial - Ryazan' Regional department of the Memorial society.
- Memorial Italia L'associazione Memorial Italia is a society for studying the history of 20th century Russian History focusing on human rights then and now.
- Mining History Association (MHA) The MHA (USA) holds an annual meeting, publishes a scholarly journal and a quarterly newsletter, and provides a forum for discussion of the history of mining
- Morris - William Morris Society Web Site hosted by the City University of New York.
- New York Labor History Association Information about NYLHA and its activities, labor history news, announcements of events, and sources for researching New York State's labor history.
- North American Anarchist Studies Network - l'Association Nord-Américain des Etudes Anarchistes North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN)
- North East Labour History Society Britain's oldest regional labour history society is dedicated to the study of working people's history in the region, particularly during the modern period. The website offers information about the Society and its annual journal North East History, a reading list and links to other sites.
- North West Labour History Group General information, journal table of contents, some online articles.
- Oral History Association (U.S.) In addition to fostering communication among its members, the OHA encourages standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, dissemination and uses of oral testimony. OHA publishes Evaluation Guidelines on ots website.
- Pacific Northwest Labour History Association General information, links.
- Peace History Society Extensive general information.
- Proudhon - Société Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Infomation on its annual conference, a list of its publications, Les Travaux de l'Atelier Proudhon and Les Cahiers de la Société Proudhon, links.
- Réseau international de Recherche sur les Pays d'Europe centrale et orientale (RIDECO, Nanterre). General information, weekly chronicle.
- Scottish Labour History Society Conferences, essays, links.
- Selskabet til forskning i Arbejderbevaegelsens Historie The Danish society for research in the history of the labour movement. Publishes of Arbejderhistorie – tidsskrift for historie, kultur og politik. General information in Danish; some info in English.
- Sloan Work and Family Research Network At Boston College. Literature database, newsletter.
- Social History Society General information, conferences.
- Social Science History Association
- SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe The goal of SocialEast is to encourage comparative research into the art history of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, as well as consider wider issues in socialist visual culture. The website contains general information and announcements, and promises a database.
- Socialist History Society A group based in the UK concerned with the study of history from a socialist perspective, broadly defined. It publishes the journal Socialist History and a monograph series, Occasional Papers. It originated in 1946 as the Communist Party Historians' Group, but is now independent.
- Sociedad Espańola de Historia Agraria SEHA The Spanish Society of Agrarian History. Besides general information about the Society and its activities, the website offers a list of doctoral dissertations in the field, a bibliography, a directory of archival institutions, links to statistical information and other websites.
- Updated Societŕ Italiana di Storia del Lavoro
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies Caucus on Class Conference information, related links.
- Society for Co-operative Studies
- Society for Economic Anthropology Directory, newsletter.
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Directory, resources.
- Society for Industrial Archeology Journal, newsletter, links.
- Society for Irish Latin American Studies Formerly The Irish Argentine Historical Society. The Society's scope of study is the migration of people from Ireland to Latin America, their settlement, lives, and achievements, as well as those of their descendants, together with contemporary presence of Ireland and people of Irish ancestry in the life and culture of Latin America, and the presence of Latin Americans in Ireland.
- Society for the History of Technology - SHOT The Society was formed in 1958 to encourage the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture.
- Society for the Social History of Medicine Journals tables of contents, conferences, seminars.
- Society for the Study of Labour History Journal, conferences, links.
- Society for Utopian Studies Journal.
- Society of Labor Economists Conference information, journal, bulletin board.
- Socio-Economic History Society at the School of Politics and Economics, Waseda University
- Southern Labor Studies Association The Southern Labor Studies Association (SLSA) brings together scholars interested in issues of working class and labor history in the South as well as scholars who teach labor and working class history at southern universities. It is affiliated with the Labor and Working Class Studies Association (LAWCHA). General information.
- Stichting Historie der techniek Foundation for the History of Technology, Eindhoven (NL). General information. Links.
- Stichting Maatschappijgeschiedenis General information.
- Telecommunications History Group THG maintains and operates one of the nation's largest privately held telecommunications archives and operates two small museums. The website has information on the collections, which include photographs, and scrapbooks and memoirs compiled by telephone company employees and their families.
- Trade Union History Project This organization was established in 1987 to foster and record New Zealand trade union and labour history. Besides an extensive introduction to the Projects activities, the website includes timelines of New Zealand labour history, recommended reading, newsletters, information on publications, seminars and conferences and links. The site will also include the material from David Verran's New Zealand Labour History website.
- Työväen Historian ja Perinteen Tutkimuksen Seura The Finnish Society for Labour History. Its aim is to promote the research and interest in labour history, the labour movement, working class culture, and working life.
- Union for Radical Political Economics (New Haven, CT). Journal, newsletter, conferences.
- Vakbonds Historische Vereniging Society for trade union history in the Netherlands. General information, newsletter (pdf), a quiz and a few short pieces on Dutch labour history, in Dutch.
- Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Vienna). Keeper of the records of the Sozialistische Partei Österreichs. General information in German and English about the archival, library, and museum collections. Rarities in the VGA Archives include the correspondence between Victor Adler and Friedrich Engels, between Friedrich Adler and Albert Einstein, as well as letters left by Emma Adler.
- Verein für Socialpolitik - Wirtschaftshistorischer Ausschuß General information.
- Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur maintained by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Industriekultur (Duisburg). Discussion list, extensive German and international links to heritage sites.
- Vlaamse Vereniging voor Industriële Archeologie General information, links.
- Wisconsin Labor History Society A bibliography, links, educational materials.
- Working Class Studies Association Genral information about the Association, calendar, conference, links, some of which are available only to the membership of the WCSA.
- WorkLab The International Association of Labour Museums. General information, newsletter
- World History Association The WHA is affiliated with the American Historical Association and several historical associations in Europe and Asia.
International Associations and Societies
- Arbeitskreis Militär und Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit AMG An international Working Group for Military and Society in the Early Modern Era. The AMG is dedicated to a new military history that is oriented to cultural and social historical approaches. It is based in Potsdam, Germany.
- Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH) An international organization for world history founded on May 4, 2008 at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. The purpose of the Association is to advance research, teaching, and public discussion on large-scale historical studies in or for the Asia-Pacific region. General information, conferences.
- European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) A professional, non-profit organisation of scholars engaged in research and teaching concerning South Asia with regard to all periods and fields of study. The objectives of EASAS are to support and promote South Asian Studies in all countries of Europe
- European Network in Universal and Global History ENIUGH Organizes a European Congress on themes of World and Global History; publishes 'Comparativ' and 'history.transnational'; offers administrative help for bi- and multilateral cooperation in the fields of Masters and PhD programmes.
- Global Fisheries History Network General information, directory, newsletter, reviews, calendar, links; at the Centre for Maritime and Regional Studies, Esbjerg, Denmark.
- International Association for Business and Society IABS is a learned society devoted to research and teaching about the relationships between business, government and society. Newsletter, journal Business and Society, syllabi.
- International Association of Labour History Institutions Directory, news service, tables of contents of labour history journals.
- International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Directory, newsletter, list of publications.
- International Association Strikes and Social Conflicts An Association of institutional and individual members, aiming to promote and disseminates studies on labour and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non Eurocentric perspective.
- International Commission for Historical Demography The International Commission of Historical Demography (ICHD) is an international organization whose permanent domicile is at Geneva, Switzerland. Its new website provides information about international conferences, publications, and links relating to historical demography.
- International Committee for the History of Technology Directory, journal, newsletter.
- International Communal Studies Association A multidisciplinary organization providing a common framework for scholarly exchange regarding communes, intentional communities, collective settlements and kibbutz throughout the world. General information, conference proceedings.
- International Council of Museums Publications, links.
- International Council on Archives Directory, list of publications.
- International Council on Monuments and Sites An international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. Directory, documentation centre, links.
- International Federation of Data Organizations Directory, catalogue.
- International Federation of Film Archives Founded in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of film archives. General information, news, an international directory of film archives.
- International Federation of Library Associations Directory, publications.
- International Federation of Television Archives Directory, newsletter.
- International Network for the History of Public Health Directory, newsletter.
- International Political Science Association Directory, extensive links.
- International Social History Committee Comite international d'histoire social. The International Social History Committee (ISHC) was founded in February 2002 and continues the activities of the Commission internationale d'histoire des mouvements sociaux et des structures sociales (1951-2002).
- Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES) An international network established to continue the publication of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA-2). Its webpages offer project information, tables of contents of, and the introductions to, the volumes published; online tables of contents and summaries of MEGA-Studien.
- Internationale Tagung der Historiker der Arbeiterbewegung - ITH - International Conference of Labour and Social History Founded in 1964, in Vienna, Austria, the International Conference of Labour Historians is an umbrella organization of labour history research institutions and associations and indivual labour historians. It organizes the annual "Linz Conference" and publishes the conference papers.
- LabNet The European network of labour historians. General information.
- LabourAgain A research network on Latin America, social mobilisation and the centrality of labour. Working papers, a discussion list aiming to be a channel for exchanging information and discussing recent developments in the field of Latin American labour studies through e-mail.
- Research Committee on Labor Movements of the International Sociological Association. Newsletter, links.
- Social Science Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations. Directory, bibliography.
Lists of Associations and Societies
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