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• Oral History project
• Three interviews with Lodewijk de Waal

Lodewijk de Waal (Rotterdam 1950) was chairman of the trade union FNV from 1997 to 2005.

Journalist Leonard Ornstein (VPRO) and IISH researcher Dennie Oude Nijhuis spoke with him about his time as leader of the FNV. Of course about his vision of the movement in that period. But they also asked him about more recent developments. Once again, this yielded wonderful material is included in the IISH collection and made available to researchers and anyone interested via the website. Interviews are in Dutch.

Every year around this time, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) publishes the number of strikes of the year before. 'In 2018, 28 times, in 2017 it was 32 times. There were about 67 thousand days of work lost less than a year earlier.' So we can read on the website of the institute.The number of strikes fell, while the number of strikers and suspended days was lower.



The IISH has an overview of the strikes that have taken place since 1372 Also for 2018, this unique historical series has been updated by IISH researcher Sjaak van der Velden. He promoted on the development of strikes in the Netherlands.

iPres 2019 is seeking submissions from software developers and vendors who would like to nominate software for the workflow-specific software category of the Great Digital Preservation Bake-Off, to be held as part of the iPRES 2019 conference at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam on 16 – 20 September. 

The Global History of Work: Critical Readings provides an extensive reference collection which is essential for all students and scholars needing to gain a critical understanding of work and the history of work.



By Marcel van der Linden. (ed.)

We are proud to announce that our research director, Leo Lucassen, has been elected to the The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

When ‘Adjusted’ People Rebel: Economic Liberalization and Social Revolts in Africa and the Middle East (1980s to the present day)”

Het IISG en de FNV hebben een grote sprong voorwaarts gemaakt met het toegankelijk maken van het FNV-erfgoed. Het gehele archief van de federatie is nu via de studiezaal te raadplegen.

13th European Social Science History Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 18 – 21 March, 2020. The deadline for pre-registration of a paper or session proposal on our website is 15 April 2019.

On January 17, 2019, the IISH organized an afternoon for teachers about Dutch slavery history and colonial history. Topics that can cause turmoil in the classroom. At the same time, science does not stand still. What can scientists and teachers do to make these topics negotiable?

Dit jaar viert de Amsterdamse beurs, de oudste aandelenbeurs ter wereld, haar 417de verjaardag met een speciale gongceremonie. Euronext Amsterdam vierde deze bijzondere dag samen met Stichting Capital Amsterdam, bewaker en promotor van het Nederlandse beurserfgoed en 'ons' Nederlands Economisch Historisch Archief (NEHA), Ter ere hiervan luidde Jessica Dijkman (UU), secretaris van het NEHA, de gong.

The photographic collection of Dutch photographer Maya Pejić (1935 - 2023) comprises over 220,000 negatives, slides, and prints. The collection features images of minority groups, social issues, anti-racism campaigns and other political initiatives in the Netherlands from the 1960s onwards. The collection also includes images of the living conditions of children and women in particular in dozens of countries in the Global South. The copyright to the photographs is held by the IISG.

Op 4 maart opent de Early Bird registratie voor iPRES 2019. Het Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed (NDE) is de trotse organisator van deze toonaangevende internationale conferentie over digitale duurzaamheid. Dit jaar komt de 16e International Conference on Digital Preservation naar Amsterdam (16 t/m 20 september). Schrijf je 4 maart meteen in om zeker te zijn van het early bird tarief.