International Institute of Social History

The IISH manages a rich collection in the field of socio-economic history that is made available online and in the reading room as much as possible. The archives, publications and audiovisual collections cover more than 50 kilometres and offer (historical) information on organisations and persons in the field of labour and social and emancipatory movements.

Read about our research programme here; our four research clusters Global Labour Relations, Commodities, Environment and Labour, Social and Economic Inequality and Individual and Collective Action. This is also where you can find an overview of our researchers, their projects and their publications.

View our thousands of datasets on demography, wages, life courses, inequality, prices, and labour relations here. The IISH is one of the world's leading data centres on socio-economic history.

View the latest IISH news items and events here, as well as information about our workshops, the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) and the Thesis Prize. A series of collection stories can also be found here.