Highlights
Here you will find web presentations that are intended to highlight a special collection, a particular aspect of a collection, or a new acquisition.
Ewald Vanvugt, Traveller, photographer, and publicist
Ewald Vanvugt's archive and photographs collection which he has donated to the IISH over the years, were recently made...

Recently, both the archive and the library of CLAT-Netherlands were made accessible for research, having been donated to the...
Wim de Wit: A Dutch engineer in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era
In spring 2016 the Institute received from de Wit’s family a useful addition of 0.25 m. to the Wim de Wit archive. Wim de...

Marcus Bakker (1923-2009) is well known as the parliamentary face of the Communist Party in the Netherlands (CPN). Even his...

In Hitler’s Germany, scholars lost their jobs because they were Jewish or otherwise undesired.Turkey, on the other hand, was...
1936-1939, the Revolution Betrayed
Traduccion español: La Revolución traicionada.They were left with no other choice. Just before the end of the Spanish Civil...

Anton Pannekoek was born in 1873 to average middle-class parents, but he became a prominent astronomer and Marxist...

Thomas More’s Utopia was published exactly five hundred years ago, in 1516, in Leuven. More had many epigones throughout...

Nowadays, the main field in which the Institute acquires collections is labour, and its various aspects. The IISH’s...

For many years, Angelica Balabanova (c. 1878-1965) played a key role in the European social democrat network. In 1919 she...