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.
An Old Trade Union in Sri Lanka and a Brand New One in Nepal
Nowadays, the main field in which the Institute acquires collections is labour, and its various aspects. The IISH’s...
Angelica Balabanova
For many years, Angelica Balabanova (c. 1878-1965) played a key role in the European social democrat network. In 1919 she...
Communal Landownership and Production Associations
Vereniging Gemeenschappelijk Grondbezit (GGB) [Association for Communal Land Ownership] was founded by the Dutch writer and...
In Memoriam : the February Strike
On 25 February 2016 the seventy-fifth anniversary of the February Strike will be commemorated in front of the synagogue and...
Child Labour - Photos made by Maya Pejić
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 (...
Dutch Fortune Hunters
In November 1937, Rinus van Mastrigt, an unemployed youth from Rotterdam, took his bike and started on a long journey...
Johannes Agnoli Opposed to Parliamentary Democracy
Johannes Agnoli (1925-2003), born Giovanni Agnoli in Valle di Cadore, about 100 km north of Venice, was a person of extremes...
Koos Vorrink and Henk van Laar
In November 2014 the papers of the Dutch social democrat leader Koos Vorrink were discovered in an attic. His papers have...
