Troelstra Collection Guide

This publication explains why it is important to include the history of labor and labor relations in Africa in Global Labor History.

Hofmeester, K. & P. de Zwart, Colonialism, institutional change and shifts in global labour relations (Amsterdam 2018, AUP).

Director Research

Senior Researcher 

Senior Researcher IISH

Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher and professor of Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism at Radboud University Nijmegen

Senior Researcher

Fellow

Leo Lucassen, Research director of the IISH and author of the book Vijf eeuwen migratie with his brother Jan Lucassen, debated with Professor Paul Scheffer in Buitenhof TV on migration and population growth in the Netherlands.

British social history writing spans about seven centuries, from the medieval farmers' protests and enclosure movement to the 1984 miners' strike and the peace movement today. 

Since it was begun in 1987, the Turkish Desk has developed into one of the most important research centers worldwide on the history of modern Turkey.

On the occasion of the 150th birthday of the poet and politician Pieter Jelles Troelstra (1860-1930), the IISH has opened a digital documentation center. 

The Law of Historical Memory of Spain (Ley de la Memoria Histórica de España) (October 2007) has greatly enhanced research on the Spanish Civil War. 

In the Russian and Eastern Europe collections at the IISH, Russia and the former USSR are dominant. Additional collection development efforts cover most countries in Eastern Europe that became communist after 1945.

With its historic revolutions and legendary revolutionary movements, Latin America was bound to become core business for the Institute. 

International organizations figure prominently in the collections at the IISH.

The IISH collections on Germany and German speaking countries in Central Europe cover the period beginning with the democratic revolutionary movements and early workers' organizations around 1840 to the protest movements in the FRG during the '60s and '70s, and the civic movement in the GDR during the '80s.

The French collection is among the larger national collections at the IISH. Materials date back to the emergence of the revolutionary ideology in the second half of the eighteenth century. 

De rijke historie van de Nederlandse vakbonden is nu te vinden op de website vakbondsverhalen.nl. Hoe kwam die site tot stand?

On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 18

On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 31 (2016)

Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Plaats van uitgave: Leiden
Publisher: Brill (externe link)
Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-166837

Trien de Haan-Zwagerman (1891-1986) became a prominent figure in the Dutch left wing movement of the 1920s. Bart Lankester wrote her biography.

Johan van Hell (1889-1952) was a versatile man. Besides being a visual artist, he was a clarinet player and oboist, and not the least.

Fighting, that is what he did Will Thorne, not just to survive but also during his work as union man. This book, one of the first real autobiographies from the perspective of someone belonging to the working class, describe the life and works of Will Thorne.

Maurice Ferares (* 1922) is a violinist by profession, was active in the trade union of Soundartists, in the Trotskyist Fourth International and the Social Democratic Center.