News Archive
The IISH holds more than 3200 archival collections. Most of the archives have to be consulted in...
Last weeks' new publications include works by IISH researchers and new editions in IISH series....
Welcome to the new site of the International Institute of Social History!
...Het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG), een Instituut van de Koninklijke...
De Volkskrant-IISG Scriptieprijs voor Geschiedenis 2011 is gewonnen door Joppe van Driel met de...
The award is issued every year to students who wrote an excellent thesis about a historical...
As of November 2011, the International Institute of Social History has adopted a new style. The...
On 15 November 2011 XingChen Lin defended her thesis entitled 'Female Heads of Households in...
IISH's brand new Latin America and Caribbean Desk - headed by Bolivian Rossana Barragán - has...
The HSN Annual Report 2010 is available as a PDF document (in Dutch).
The research project "Census data open linked - CEDAR - From fragment to fabric - Dutch census...
In the 18th and 19 centuries, thousands of Lippian brick makers came from Germany to the...
Dinsdagmiddag, van 14-15 uur, kunt u luisteren naar het nieuwe radioprogramma 'Broeinest...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the African Union resides here, as does the United Nations' Economic...
Social History Shop, de webwinkel van het...
De Volkskrant en het IISG hebben de eerste Volkskrant-IISG scriptieprijs voor geschiedenis...
Op 22 oktober 2010 overleed Mies Campfens. Bij de opbouw, ordening en beschrijving van de...
Dutch Science Funding organisation NWO has announced it will...
The sad news reached us that Steef Davidson passed away on the 31st of May, 2010. Besides being...
IISH makes its digital collections available in the framework of an ambitious new EU project:...
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded a grant of € 530.000 to...
The IISH has started an extensive project to document the tumultuous presidential elections in...
The SNS REAAL Fund awarded a generous grant to initiate an international exhibition project on...
De J.R. Bruijn-prijs voor de beste scriptie over een maritiem-historisch onderwerp, is dit jaar...
In het kader van het lustrum van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen organiseert de...
The SURF Foundation has granted a subsidy to IISH and the Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) in...
IISH has been awarded a grant by the national digitization programme "...
NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research awarded funding from the...
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of its prestigious Advanced Investigator...
The Dr Sadiqi Research Fund was established with generous support from the Centre for Iranian...
In recognition of his rich, pioneering and long-term academic contributions to the field of...
Op 17 november heeft de minister van Economische Zaken Maria van der Hoeven uit handen van A....
Het Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging (...
Herman van Renselaar Prize for Turkish social history.
Herman van Renselaar was for...
An exhibition of Dutch protest posters as of 1965 in the Amsterdam Verzetsmuseum (until 29 March...
The exhibition 'Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now' in Exit Art Cultural...
The so called 'Mozaïekbeurs' (Mosaic Grant) has been initiated by the Netherlands Organization...
On 1 September 2008 Kees Mandemakers, senior researcher at the International Institute of Social...
The University of Oslo is awarding an honorary...
The new director of the IISH, Erik-Jan Zürcher, is one of the twenty-five newly chosen Members...
On 29 April 2008 the American sociologist and historian Charles Tilly died of lymphoma. For...
Danielle van den Heuvel was awarded the Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize at the annual...
On 28 March 2008, the historic collections of the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (...
From 1st April 2008, Erik-Jan Zürcher (54) will be the new director of the International...
A new agreement has opened the door to the digitization of the oldest information sources on...
Vrouwen in de Lage Landen stonden vanaf de Late Middeleeuwen tot ongeveer 1800 aan de wereldtop...
De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) vierde in 2008 haar...
Starting 1st January 2008, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (...
IISH researchers defended their PhD thesis:
On 23 November 2007, Danielle van den Heuvel...
The "Russian Question" was an absolutely central problem for Marxism in the twentieth century....
The Figuerola Prize 2007 for the best paper published in 'European Review of Economic History'...
Two IISH junior researchers, Jelle van Lottum and Danielle van den Heuvel, have received a...
The research project 'Plants, People & Work: the Social History of Cash Crops in Asia'...
The third consecutive IISH research project in Russia was launched this weekend with its first...
In December 2005, the collections of the Centre for Iranian Documentation and Research (CIDR) in...
Met ingang van 1 december is Karin Hofmeester voor 0,1...
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities in Asia.
Willem van Schendel (Asia Department...
De stichting CPNB organiseert de boekenweek 2005 met verschillende organisaties, waaronder het...
Peter Benenson (1921-2005), lawyer and founder of human rights' organisation Amnesty...
Books as Objects of Veneration, Subjects of Destruction
Expositie...
The IISH collection of unidentified photos has been the inspiration for the Institute of Chance...
On May 18, Jan Lucassen was elected a member of the...
On March 19, 2004 Prof. dr. Marcel van der Linden, research director of the IISH, delivered the...
Professor Kristoffel Lieten gave his inaugural lecture on 21 November 2003 in the auditorium of...
Jan Luiten van Zanden is one of the winners of the NWO/Spinoza Award for 2003, as announced...
On 11 April 2002, 62 years after units of the German occupation army in the Netherlands seized...
Ms Lija I. L'vova, Director of the Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka (...
Shahriar Kabir, the IISH representative in Bangladesh who was one of around 40 opposition...
During the 2002 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic...
On Wednesday 30 January 2002, a long awaited ceremony took place on the premises of the Algemeen...
The detention of Shahriar Kabir, the IISH representative in Bangladesh, was declared "illegal"...
On Friday, May 18, 2001, the Web server of the International Institute of Social History...
The GULAG Press, containing "news" bulletins, posters, literary journals, albums and booklets,...
On September 16, 2000, the Institute presented Mikhail Bakunin's Oeuvres complètes on a...
On Friday, March 24, 2000, the Web server of the International Institute of Social History...