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'Een sterke geest van vrijheid'
Boekpresentatie op 11 oktober 2000, 15.30 - 18.00Technische Universiteit, Delft Johan Willem Albarda (1877-1957) ontwikkelde zich van Tweede Kamerlid voor de SDAP (1913-1939) tot Minister van... [Event]
Dag van de Persvrijheid 2003
Op zaterdagmiddag 3 mei 2003 werd in het IISG / Persmuseum te Amsterdam een aantal inleidingen gehouden in het kader van de Dag van de Persvrijheid. In samenwerking met de NVJ, NUV, WEF, IISG, SCO... [Event]
Women and Work Workshop
Women and Work in the Early Modern Period - Workshop Report  As many as 50 participants were present at the IISH workshop 'Women and work in the early modern period', which was held on Friday 28... [Event]
Postcolonial Immigration and Identity Formation in Europe since 1945
In 2005, KITLV, IISH and a third institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) initiated the research programme 'Bringing History Home. Postcolonial Identity Politics in the... [Event]
Nelson Mandela and the Netherlands
Nelson Mandela, an icon of our time, spent a long career in the South African liberation movement, the African National Congress. He served 27 years in jail for his leading role in the anti-apartheid... [Exhibition]
Eindelijk vakantie
Na jaren van wikken en wegen  sprak de Algemeene Nederlandsche Diamantbewerkersbond (ANDB) in 1910 met de werkgevers af dat de Amsterdamse diamant-industrie de eerste week van augustus gesloten zou... [Image gallery]
Gypsy Life in Dutch Childrens' Books 1825-1990
Gypsy life is highly imaginative. Gypsies are generally portrayed as lazy and unreliable: they live by begging and poaching, stealing chickens and robbing children. But the stereotype of the gypsy is... [Image gallery]
Refugees in Holland 1914-1918
During the First World War, tens of thousands refugees poured into Holland. Russian prisoners of war, British marines, German deserters, and Belgian civilians were sheltered there.As a neutral... [Image gallery]
Provo Provokes
The first issue of PROVO (Amsterdam, 12 July 1965) featured traditional anarchist ideology and recipes for homemade dynamite and other explosives. Provo was an anarchist youth movement in Amsterdam... [Image gallery]
Ups and Downs of the Dutch Monarchy
A selection of nine prints from the collections of IISH and Press Museum from the birth of the heir to the throne to the threats of the monarchy.  View the selection of the nine prints. [Image gallery]

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