AMIEL MELBURN TRUST INTERNET ARCHIVE: On 11 October 2006, the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust launched the new Amiel Melburn Trust Internet Archive (AMTIA). The Trust explains: 'The archive has been created to provide information and learning resources for people who are interested in the world today and the history of socialism.' It features a searchable full-text archive of four titles produced by, or in the orbit of, the Communist Party of Great Britain: Universities and Left Review (1957-59); New Reasoner (1957-59); Marxism Today (1980-1991); and Our History; alongside miscellaneous pamphlets, articles and Reading Guides.

IDENTITY AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN EUROPEAN COMMUNIST LIFE HISTORIES: Under this heading a series of three day seminars will be held at the universities of Manchester, Glamorgan and Leicester over the period March 2007-March 2008. The seminars aim to reflect on the growing body of research on communist life history and collective memory, adopting a comparative approach across both national and political dividing lines. The first of the seminars will take place at the University of Manchester on 23 March 2007, when the speakers will include Marie-Claire Lavabre, Stephen Hopkins and Emmet O'Connor. For details of the seminars, or if you would be interested in giving a paper, please contact the organisers: Stephen Hopkins (sh15@leicester.ac.uk) Norman LaPorte (nlaporte@glam.ac.uk) or Kevin Morgan (kevin.morgan@manchester.ac.uk). Details will also be posted at the CPGB Biographical Project website.

TOM WINTRINGHAM'S POEMS: Andy Croft writes: 'Tom Wintringham (1898-1949) was a man of action, a revolutionary, a soldier and a poet. During the First World War he served in the Royal Flying Corps; in the Spanish Civil War he commanded the British Battalion of the International Brigade; in the Second World War he was the driving force and inspiration behind the establishment of the Home Guard. He was a founder member of the British communist party, and one of the twelve communist leaders gaoled for "sedition" in 1925. He edited the Worker's Weekly, helped launch the Daily Worker and was one of the first editors of Left Review. Expelled in 1938 from the communist party, Wintringham co-founded the Commonwealth Party and almost won a famous war-time by-election. His poetry was published in many magazines, and his numerous books included The Coming World War, Mutiny, English Captain, The Politics of Victory, People's War and the best-selling Your MP. Edited by Hugh Purcell, We're Going On!: The Collected Poems of Tom Wintringham is published by Smokestack Books, PO Box 408, Middlesbrough TS5 6WA, price £6.99. Drawing on the newly opened Wintringham archive, it contains nearly all of Wintringham's poems, many published for the first time.'

RAPHAEL SAMUEL AND THE LOST WORLDS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POLITICS: A seminar on the above theme will be held at the University of Durham, on 26 April 2007. Speakers will include Lawrence Black, Alison Light and Kevin Morgan. For further details, contact lawrence.black@durham.ac.uk or gidon.cohen@durham.ac.uk or visit the university's Modern British Studies Seminar Series website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/events/other/mobss.

LINZ 2005 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Proceedings of the 2005 Linz conference (reported in CHNN 19) have now been published: Bruno Groppo and Berthold Unfried (eds.), Gesichter in der Menge. Kollektivbiographische Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung. Mouvement ouvrier, biographie collective, prosopographie, (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt) 2006. pp221, ISBN 3-931982-49-1. Contributors are Klaus Tenfelde, Jürgen Mittag, Bernard Pudal, Kevin Morgan, Patricia Toucas-Truyen, Claudie Weill, Ulla Plener, Ottokar Luban, Hermann Weber, Feliks Tych, Claude Pennetier, José Gotovitch, Michael Buckmiller, Klaus Meschkat, Horacio Tarcus. Contents are in German (8 contributions), French (6) and English (1). A review will follow in CHNN 21. In the meantime copies can be obtained from AVA, Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Oststr. 41, D-04317 Leipzig, Germany, Fax: 0049-341-9900440, email: info@univerlag-leipzig.de. The price is €22 plus postage.