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.
Refugees in Holland 1914-1918
During the First World War, tens of thousands refugees poured into Holland. Russian prisoners of war, British marines,...
Provo Provokes
The first issue of PROVO (Amsterdam, 12 July 1965) featured traditional anarchist ideology and recipes for homemade dynamite...
Doves of Peace
A flock of fifteen doves shows but a small part of the rich collection of posters issued by the international peace movement...
La Novela Ideal and La Novela Libre
The IISH's holdings of the two fiction series (La Novela Ideal and La Novela Libre) published by La Revista Blanca are...
Max Nettlau (1865-1944)
In well-informed circles, Max Nettlau was known as the 'Herodotus of Anarchy', the first and greatest historian of the...
Paris, May 1968
In May 1968 students in Paris occupied university buildings to launch an avalanche of protests and strikes against the...
A Matter of Time
If you want to change society, why not change the calendar as well? During the 18th century, radical French philosophers...
Communist Manifesto
It took Marx and Engels six weeks to write the Communist Manifesto, since, by the end of December 1847, the London...
Louise Michel
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Louise Michel's death, the IISH presented in 2005 a selection of documents of her...
Little Red Books
Although tens of millions of this publication were distributed in China and its contents had to be known by heart, the name...