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Sexuality and Millennialism
The fourth in a series of workshops on ocialism and Sexuality organized by the AMSAB Institute for Social History (Ghent), the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam), the Institute... [Event]
Labour Organizations and Sexuality
Workshop held by the Institut d'Histoire Contemporaine, Université de Bourgogne, Third session in a series of workshops on Socialism and Sexuality organized by Archives and Museum of the Socialist... [Event]
Wonen - Collectiegids
Veel Nederlandse collecties in het IISG hebben met het thema 'wonen' te maken, die van de kraakbeweging in het bijzonder. Maar ook materiaal over volkshuisvesting, stadsvernieuwing, communes en... [Collection guide]
An Extraordinary Bookcase
In 2010, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands, exhibited various designs by the Dutch architect Robert van 't Hoff (1887-1979), who belonged to the artists' group De Stijl. An... [Collection highlight]
Socialism and Sexuality
Begun in 1997 by Francis Ronsin (University of Burgundy, Dijon, France) and other scholars associated with the Institute of Contemporary History (Dijon), the International Institute of Social History... [Project]
Pain-Killers for 'Spirit Wrestlers'
Doukhobors – literally 'spirit wrestlers' - belonged to a Russian religious sect that was severely persecuted by the church and the state for their pacifist ideas at the end of the nineteenth century... [Item of the Day]
Free Love in America
John Humphrey Knowles, whom many people were pleased to hear died April 13, 1886, had preached and practised Free Love. In 1848 Knowles established the Oneida Community near New York. Here, according... [Item of the Day]