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Annual Report 1988
The year 1988 was a very busy and productive one for the Institute. It proved possible to realize many of the plans made before and shortly after thereorganization of the Institute. In addition to... [Annual report]
Annual Report 1989
In 1989 the Institute was able to reap many of the results of the harvest sown in the preceding years. For a start, the Institute moved to the rapidly changingEastern Docks redevelopment area of... [Annual report]
Bezoek Sisonke Msimang visit
Zondag 10 februari jl. hield Sisonke Msimang, Zuid-Afrikaans schrijfster en opiniemaker, de Nelson Mandela lezing in een afgeladen grote zaal van de Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam, georganiseerd door... [Blog post]
The records of the ‘People’s Information Centre: April-May 2010 Crackdowns’ (PIC)
PIC was a Thai human rights organisation founded after the repression of the Red Shirt protests around the Rachaprasong intersection in Bangkok in May 2010. In total 91 people were killed during the... [Blog post]
Informal architecture
Everybody who has ever visited Hong Kong and made a Sunday stroll around Central District knows about the weekly phenomena of Filipino domestic workers reclaiming the streets - or pavements and... [Blog post]
South Africa visit and passing away of Lucia Raadschelders
In November my partner Maud Kortbeek and I paid a visit to South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban) in which I also had a number of meetings with people and organisations in relation to my work... [Blog post]
Over bewaren én het weggooien van archiefstukken
Foto van Harry Meijer, gepubliceerd in: FNV magazine (2001).Door Loran van DiepenSchone kleren campagneIk werk sinds een tijd als archief-assistent aan het FNV-archiefproject. Ik was nog niet... [Blog post]
Photographs of Africa by Pieter Boersma
Some time ago I processed a small collection of photographs by Dutch photographer Pieter Boersma, which he made during various AWEPA-missions in Southern and East-Africa between 1992 and 2005. A nice... [Blog post]
Short movies introducing the IISH Anti-Apartheid and Southern Africa Collection
The publicity department of the International Institute of Social History recently produced two short movies (3 à 4 minutes) introducing the Anti-Apartheidand Southern Africa collection of the IISH... [Blog post]
Speech at City Hall
There’s a number of speeches from Aung San held at City Hall: Resistance Movement - Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon... [Blog post]

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