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Sign up for the the Volkskrant IISH History Thesis Award 2012.

For the third year the...

Posted: 24 May, 2012

The Third Sadighi Lecture on 12 June 2012. More...

Posted: 22 May, 2012

Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1846-1919), Nederlands beroemdste socialist, anarchist, 'us...

Posted: 20 May, 2012

IISH has a vacancy: System Administrator.

Posted: 4 May, 2012

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May) the IISH highlights one of its collections in...

Posted: 27 April, 2012

The...

Posted: 18 April, 2012

The IISH building is undergoing a major renovation in 2012.The renovation affects the exterior...

Posted: 17 April, 2012

From 11 until 14 April, about 1500 scholars from all over the world gather in Glasgow to attend...

Posted: 10 April, 2012

Based on the Kautsky and Bernstein papers at the IISH, a new volume was published in the series...

Posted: 22 March, 2012

From 23 until 25 March, thirty prominent researchers from all over the world will meet at the...

Posted: 20 March, 2012

The institute and reading room will be closed from Friday 6 April until Monday 9 April 2012.

Posted: 13 March, 2012

Read more about the new collections acquired in the last trimester of 2011

  • In 1934...
Posted: 5 March, 2012

The IISH holds more than 3200 archival collections. Most of the archives have to be consulted in...

Posted: 13 February, 2012

New publications include works by IISH researchers and new editions in IISH series. In...

Posted: 13 February, 2012

Welcome to the new site of the International Institute of Social History!

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Posted: 12 February, 2012

Het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG), een Instituut van de Koninklijke...

Posted: 10 February, 2012

The Young Academy selected...

Posted: 12 December, 2011

De Volkskrant-IISG Scriptieprijs voor Geschiedenis 2011 is gewonnen door Joppe van Driel met de...

Posted: 9 December, 2011

The award is issued every year to students who wrote an excellent thesis about a historical...

Posted: 28 November, 2011

As of November 2011, the International Institute of Social History has adopted a new style. The...

Posted: 21 November, 2011

On 15 November 2011 XingChen Lin defended her thesis entitled 'Female Heads of Households in...

Posted: 15 November, 2011

IISH's brand new Latin America and Caribbean Desk - headed by Bolivian Rossana Barragán - has...

Posted: 29 August, 2011

The HSN Annual Report 2010 is available as a PDF document (in Dutch).

Posted: 28 August, 2011

The research project "Census data open linked - CEDAR - From fragment to fabric - Dutch census...

Posted: 22 July, 2011

Op 18 juli 2011, de 93ste verjaardag van Nelson Mandela, werd op de website van het IISG het...

Posted: 18 July, 2011

In the 18th and 19 centuries, thousands of Lippian brick makers came from Germany to the...

Posted: 21 June, 2011

Op 14 juni 2011 organiseerde het Amsterdamse 4 en 5 mei comité in de Mediametic Bank een...

Posted: 14 June, 2011

Op dinsdagmiddag 19 april 2011 vond op het IISG een bijeenkomst plaats ter gelegenheid van de...

Posted: 19 April, 2011

Dinsdagmiddag, van 14-15 uur, kunt u luisteren naar het nieuwe radioprogramma 'Broeinest...

Posted: 1 March, 2011

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the African Union resides here, as does the United Nations' Economic...

Posted: 9 February, 2011

Eind 2010, begin 2011 hing een selectie anti-apartheidsposters uit de collectie in het Zuid-...

Posted: 3 February, 2011

Social History Shop, de webwinkel van het...

Posted: 19 January, 2011

De Volkskrant en het IISG hebben de eerste Volkskrant-IISG scriptieprijs voor geschiedenis...

Posted: 13 December, 2010

Op 22 oktober 2010 overleed Mies Campfens. Bij de opbouw, ordening en beschrijving van de...

Posted: 23 October, 2010

Dutch Science Funding organisation NWO has announced it will...

Posted: 28 June, 2010

The sad news reached us that Steef Davidson passed away on the 31st of May, 2010. Besides being...

Posted: 11 June, 2010

IISH makes its digital collections available in the framework of an ambitious new EU project:...

Posted: 12 May, 2010

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded a grant of € 530.000 to...

Posted: 13 January, 2010

The IISH has started an extensive project to document the tumultuous presidential elections in...

Posted: 10 November, 2009

The SNS REAAL Fund awarded a generous grant to initiate an international exhibition project on...

Posted: 24 September, 2009

De J.R. Bruijn-prijs voor de beste scriptie over een maritiem-historisch onderwerp, is dit jaar...

Posted: 19 June, 2009

In het kader van het lustrum van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen organiseert de...

Posted: 15 May, 2009

The SURF Foundation has granted a subsidy to IISH and the Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) in...

Posted: 23 January, 2009

IISH has been awarded a grant by the national digitization programme "...

Posted: 22 December, 2008

NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research awarded funding from the...

Posted: 22 December, 2008

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of its prestigious Advanced Investigator...

Posted: 28 November, 2008

The Dr Sadiqi Research Fund was established with generous support from the Centre for Iranian...

Posted: 24 November, 2008

In recognition of his rich, pioneering and long-term academic contributions to the field of...

Posted: 24 November, 2008

Op 17 november heeft de minister van Economische Zaken Maria van der Hoeven uit handen van A....

Posted: 21 November, 2008

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Posted: 20 November, 2008

Het Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging (...

Posted: 11 November, 2008

Herman van Renselaar Prize for Turkish social history.

Herman van Renselaar was for...

Posted: 23 October, 2008

An exhibition of Dutch protest posters as of 1965 in the Amsterdam Verzetsmuseum (until 29 March...

Posted: 16 October, 2008

The exhibition 'Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now' in Exit Art Cultural...

Posted: 23 September, 2008

The so called 'Mozaïekbeurs' (Mosaic Grant) has been initiated by the Netherlands Organization...

Posted: 3 September, 2008

On 1 September 2008 Kees Mandemakers, senior researcher at the International Institute of Social...

Posted: 28 August, 2008

The University of Oslo is awarding an honorary...

Posted: 11 August, 2008

The new director of the IISH, Erik-Jan Zürcher, is one of the twenty-five newly chosen Members...

Posted: 27 May, 2008

On 29 April 2008 the American sociologist and historian Charles Tilly died of lymphoma. For...

Posted: 6 May, 2008

Danielle van den Heuvel was awarded the Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize at the annual...

Posted: 23 April, 2008

On 28 March 2008, the historic collections of the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (...

Posted: 31 March, 2008

From 1st April 2008, Erik-Jan Zürcher (54) will be the new director of the International...

Posted: 29 February, 2008

A new agreement has opened the door to the digitization of the oldest information sources on...

Posted: 20 February, 2008

Vrouwen in de Lage Landen stonden vanaf de Late Middeleeuwen tot ongeveer 1800 aan de wereldtop...

Posted: 28 January, 2008

De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) vierde in 2008 haar...

Posted: 24 January, 2008

Starting 1st January 2008, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (...

Posted: 1 January, 2008

IISH researchers defended their PhD thesis:
On 23 November 2007, Danielle van den Heuvel...

Posted: 3 December, 2007

Jaap Kloosterman, who was the Institute's deputy...

Posted: 1 November, 2007

The "Russian Question" was an absolutely central problem for Marxism in the twentieth century....

Posted: 31 July, 2007

The Figuerola Prize 2007 for the best paper published in 'European Review of Economic History'...

Posted: 27 July, 2007

Two IISH junior researchers, Jelle van Lottum and Danielle van den Heuvel, have received a...

Posted: 19 July, 2007

The research project 'Plants, People & Work: the Social History of Cash Crops in Asia'...

Posted: 30 January, 2007

The third consecutive IISH research project in Russia was launched this weekend with its first...

Posted: 27 January, 2006

In December 2005, the collections of the Centre for Iranian Documentation and Research (CIDR) in...

Posted: 20 December, 2005

Met ingang van 1 december is Karin Hofmeester voor 0,1...

Posted: 1 November, 2005

Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities in Asia.

Willem van Schendel (Asia Department...

Posted: 1 September, 2005

De stichting CPNB organiseert de boekenweek 2005 met verschillende organisaties, waaronder het...

Posted: 28 February, 2005

Peter Benenson (1921-2005), lawyer and founder of human rights' organisation Amnesty...

Posted: 28 February, 2005

Books as Objects of Veneration, Subjects of Destruction
Expositie...

Posted: 1 December, 2004

The IISH collection of unidentified photos has been the inspiration for the Institute of Chance...

Posted: 1 June, 2004

On May 18, Jan Lucassen was elected a member of the...

Posted: 20 May, 2004

On March 19, 2004 Prof. dr. Marcel van der Linden, research director of the IISH, delivered the...

Posted: 24 March, 2004

Professor Kristoffel Lieten gave his inaugural lecture on 21 November 2003 in the auditorium of...

Posted: 28 November, 2003

Jan Luiten van Zanden is one of the winners of the NWO/Spinoza Award for 2003, as announced...

Posted: 25 August, 2003

On 11 April 2002, 62 years after units of the German occupation army in the Netherlands seized...

Posted: 6 February, 2003

Ms Lija I. L'vova, Director of the Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka (...

Posted: 28 January, 2003

Shahriar Kabir, the IISH representative in Bangladesh who was one of around 40 opposition...

Posted: 12 January, 2003

During the 2002 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic...

Posted: 25 November, 2002

On Wednesday 30 January 2002, a long awaited ceremony took place on the premises of the Algemeen...

Posted: 30 January, 2002

The detention of Shahriar Kabir, the IISH representative in Bangladesh, was declared "illegal"...

Posted: 1 January, 2002

On Friday, May 18, 2001, the Web server of the International Institute of Social History...

Posted: 25 May, 2001

The GULAG Press, containing "news" bulletins, posters, literary journals, albums and booklets,...

Posted: 5 January, 2001

On September 16, 2000, the Institute presented Mikhail Bakunin's Oeuvres complètes on a...

Posted: 21 September, 2000

On Friday, March 24, 2000, the Web server of the International Institute of Social History...

Posted: 28 March, 2000

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