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IALHI 2013 Conference
44th Annual Conference of The International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI)Opening up Social History Repositories: New Technologies and New MethodsThe 2013 IALHI conference aims at... [Event]
Meeting Friends of the IISH
27th Meeting of Friends of the IISHA presentation of highlights from recent IISH acquisitions.This afternoon’s special topic is a lecture by Dr Jacco Pekelder and Prof. Duco Hellema: 'A Radical... [Event]
Meeting Friends of the IISH
26th Meeting of Friends of the IISH.A presentation of highlights from recent IISH acquisitions.In the lecture special attention to the IISH activities in the Middle East and Central Asia.For more... [Event]
Happening op het IISG
De Drijvende Tuinen van Robert Jasper Grootveld, voormalig provo en antirookmagiër, zijn op donderdag 19 april vanuit het oostelijk havengebied verplaatst naar de Entrepothaven, direct achter het... [Event]
Russia, Archives and Restitution
Queen Beatrix's state visit to Russia in June 2001 provided an impetus for dealing with the restitution of archival materials taken from the Netherlands during World War II. The Russian authorities... [Event]
Collecting Sources for Social History
A symposium dedicated to investigating what are/ought to be the most important considerations when collecting sources for Social History now and in the future.The theme was discussed from the... [Event]
Special Editions Academy Library
In 2005 IISH acquired the Academy Library (library of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) - a collection of around 200,000 volumes related to all branches of science, the humanities and the... [Image gallery]
Yiddish Letters
Yiddish letters can be found in several archives which were acquired by the IISH in the course of time. Some of these are from archives bought to or deposited in the IISH shortly after its founding... [Collection highlight]
Marx-Engels Papers
The IISH now has a thousand inventories available online. The serial number 1000 has been reserved for the Institute's best known and most frequently researched archival collection, the Marx-Engels... [Collection highlight]
The Libraries of Boris Sapir and David Batser
In the course of 2001, two private libraries were added to the Russian collections at the Institute. The original owners were Boris M. Sapir (who worked at the IISH for many years) and David M.... [Collection highlight]

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