Highlights
Here you will find web presentations that are intended to highlight a special collection, a particular aspect of a collection, or a new acquisition.
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Nowadays, the main field in which the Institute acquires collections is labour, and its various aspects. The IISH’s...
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For many years, Angelica Balabanova (c. 1878-1965) played a key role in the European social democrat network. In 1919 she...
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Vereniging Gemeenschappelijk Grondbezit (GGB) [Association for Communal Land Ownership] was founded by the Dutch writer and...
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On 25 February 2016 the seventy-fifth anniversary of the February Strike will be commemorated in front of the synagogue and...
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Child Labour in the 1980's - Photos made by Maya PejićMaya Pejić (*1935) began her career as a photographer in 1966. She...
Penny-wise Housewives Keeping Account
A frugal and virtuous housewife was supposed to keep a record of her expenditure in a household account book. It enabled her...
Argentinian Anarchist Newspapers
The collection of Latin American Anarchist Newspapers contains almost a thousand journals, mostly collected by Max Nettlau (...
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In November 1937, Rinus van Mastrigt, an unemployed youth from Rotterdam, took his bike and started on a long journey...
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Johannes Agnoli (1925-2003), born Giovanni Agnoli in Valle di Cadore, about 100 km north of Venice, was a person of extremes...
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In November 2014 the papers of the Dutch social democrat leader Koos Vorrink were discovered in an attic. His papers have...