Op 13 maart j.l. overleed op 85-jarige leeftijd Igor Cornelissen.

On 25 February it will be 80 years since the February Strike took place in Amsterdam.

On 25 February, Open Archief is organizing a public event for heritage professionals and interested parties in the creative reuse of heritage collections. These Re:Use clinics address matters essential for reusing collections and for the process of makers.

Routledge Publishers has just released the book 'Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century. The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order, written by Rombert Stapel.

On Thursday 3 December the mural 'The wall of Surinamese and black heroes' of the building 'Ons Suriname' in Amsterdam was covered with white paint and racist texts were applied.

De Burcht, het wetenschappelijk bureau voor de vakbeweging, presenteert de 21e publicatie De vakbond en de werkvloer, op zoek naar nieuwe relaties onder redactie van Rosa Kösters en Wim Eshuis.

A new journal on Latin American labour history just launched in open access.

Picking a date to celebrate your anniversary can be somewhat arbitrary for an organization.

The ESSHC 2020, postponed  to 24-27 March 2021,  goes digital.



We  have decided to change the postponed the ESSHC in March 2021 into an online event.

As a live conference in March 2021 is not a viable option given the ongoing global Covid-19 crisis, we have chosen to go digital. Thus, we want to give the ESSHC community the opportunity to present, discuss, network and stay connected, in a virtual environment.  More information on the ESSHC on the conference website:  esshc.iisg.amsterdam

NB: a version of this text in Farsi is downloadable as pdf below!

One of the early events that mark the beginning of the Cold War played out in the northwestern province of Iran, Azerbaijan, widely referred to as the 1946 crisis. A number of recently acquired posters in the collection of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) provide a colorful image of the way in which the 1946 crisis was perceived and propagated by the Iranian state in the following decade in the context of the Cold War.

The Commodity Frontiers team has launched its own electronic journal, a milestone for the Commodity Frontiers Initiative.

Grote rol Amsterdams stadsbestuur in slavernijverleden, onderzoek opmaat naar mogelijke excuses.