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.
Works by Fré Cohen
Three lithographies, a woodcut and a number of proof prints of designs for vignettes for the magazine De Toorts (The Torch...
Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms
Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms has now transferred its film and video collection to the IISH.Since 1966 Cineclub has been producing...
Records of the Dutch Right
The International Institute of Social History received large parts of the records of the Centrum Partij and the...
Spanish Workers' Commission
When Spain's post-war industrialization took off in the fifties, it drew millions of young workers from the countryside to...
Etienne Cabet
The Institute holds small and large archives of Lucien Descaves (1861-1949) and the Paris Commune, as well as the papers of...
Birobidzhan 1934-1940
Birobidzhan 1934-1940, A Soviet Jewish homeland. Nearly every archive that arrives at the IISH contains a small surprise....
The Bengal Collections
Since 1996 the International Institute of Social History has been actively collecting material on the social history of...
The Libraries of Boris Sapir and David Batser
In the course of 2001, two private libraries were added to the Russian collections at the Institute. The original owners...
Oral History Azerbaijan
In cooperation with the BBC World Service the IISH has started to record the oral history of the Caucasus in the period 1988...
Asbestos in Brazil
Asbestos reveals the effects of globalization from an unusual perspective. The health hazards associated with the use of...