Maarten Fer

The project Plants, People and Work: The Social History of Cash Crops in Asia, 18th to 20th Centuries started in 2007with a  500,000 euro grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (N.W.O.). It fits  in the central 'Global Labour History' research program of the IISH.

Curator

To help you find your way around our Asian collections we have prepared three Collection Guides. After reading them it's easier to use the search engine at the top of this page to find the material listed in the guides.

When Peter Schumacher was still correspondent in Asia he visited Cambodia in 1973 and 1974 from Hong Kong where he was based. These visits resulted in stories on the war for the Dutch progressive weekly Vrij Nederland.

Songkran or Thai New Year (April 13-15) is the most important festival/holiday in Thailand and a festival rich with traditions a.o. merit making and offering food to monks, paying reverence to elders etc.

Poster from Laos, produced by the Editions du Neo Lao Haksat (Lao Patriotic Front) to celebrate the 2000th U.S. plane shot down over Laos, in the period from 1964 until 1971.

On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 16

On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 29

In 2014 Antoinette Raquiza donated her collection of documents on the Philippine Left to the International Institute of Social History.

Recently two new Thai collections have been made available at the IISH.

After having announced last September the availability of the Michael Bedford Collection, it is now time to announce the same for the Michael Bedford Papers.

The business of Low San Lee (right side of the yellow sign) seems to be closed down, the actual lettering of his business has been taken of, but the stains left behind clearly spell out his name ...