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Two Million Visitors
On Friday, May 18, 2001, the Web server of the International Institute of Social History received its two-millionth visitor since the beginning of operations in Spring 1996.Though never a 'business... [News]
One Million Visitors
On Friday, March 24, 2000, the Web server of the International Institute of Social History received its one-millionth visitor since the beginning of operations in Spring 1996.Though never a 'business... [News]
Steef Davidson 1943-2010
The sad news reached us that Steef Davidson passed away on the 31st of May, 2010. Besides being a participant in many alternative movements, both political and cultural, Steef was a passionate... [News]
Shahriar Kabir Freed
Shahriar Kabir, the IISH representative in Bangladesh who was one of around 40 opposition activists arrested on December 8 following bomb blasts in the northern town of Mymensingh, was released from... [News]
Shahriar Kabir in prison
The detention of Shahriar Kabir, the IISH representative in Bangladesh, was declared "illegal" by the country's High Court, according to the Daily Star of January 13. "The court order, however, would... [News]
Patricia Grimsted Honoured
During the 2002 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Pittsburgh, PA, Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, an honorary fellow of the IISH, received the AAASS... [News]
KNAW 200 jaar
De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) vierde in 2008 haar tweehonderdjarig bestaan met tal van evenementen en een speciale website. Het thema van het jubileumjaar: 'Magie van... [News]
Rare Book Restituted
Ms Lija I. L'vova, Director of the Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka (GOPB, Socio-Political State Library) in Moscow, presented the IISH with a very rare first edition of... [News]
Mies Campfens 1940-2010
Op 22 oktober 2010 overleed Mies Campfens. Bij de opbouw, ordening en beschrijving van de Nederlandse collecties van het IISG heeft zij een cruciale rol gespeeld.In 1968 trad ze, haar doctoraalbul... [News]
Charles Tilly 1929-2008
On 29 April 2008 the American sociologist and historian Charles Tilly died of lymphoma. For twenty years Professor Tilly served the International Institute of Social History as a formal and informal... [News]

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