Journals and online series

The International Review of Social History (IRSH) is one of the leading journals in its field. Truly global in its scope, it focuses on research in social and labour history from a comparative and transnational perspective, both in the modern and in the early modern period, and across periods. The journal combines quality, depth and originality of its articles with an open eye for theoretical innovation and new insights and methods from within its field and from contiguous disciplines. Besides research articles, it features surveys of new themes and subject fields, a suggestions and debates section, review essays and book reviews. IRSH is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the IISH. 

TSEG/The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History is the Dutch-Flemish journal of social and economic history. It is an open access, peer-reviewed, scientific  journal which was granted A status/ INT 1 by the European Science Foundation. The journal has a strong interest in the manner in which people in the past have interacted with each other and given shape to social, economic, cultural and political patterns. Key notions here are economic growth, power and (in)equality, group cultures, networks, identity, gender, ethnicity, ecology, trade and technique, entrepreneurship, labour and social movements.

TSEG is published online in open access at openjournals.nl and in print by Leuven University Press on behalf of the IISH.

Historical Life Course Studies is the electronic journal of the European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net) and is published by the International Institute of Social History (IISH). The journal is the primary publishing outlet for research involved in the conversion of existing European and non-European large historical demographic databases into a common format, the Intermediate Data Structure, and for studies based on these databases. The journal publishes both methodological and substantive research articles.

Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores (REVLATT) is a scholarly publication devoted to the history of labour, which aims to bring together research with diverse views and perspectives about and from Latin America. It is published twice a year, with contributions in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, and its articles are submitted to external reviewers with the double-blind peer review system. The journal is an initiative of the Red Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores (REDLATT), with the support of the International Institute of Social History and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies. The contents are available in open access under the Creative Commons 4.0 International License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). 

On the Waterfront is the magazine of the Friends of the IISH. It is published twice a year, online and in print. It features, among others, presentations of new and notable collection acquisitions, and articles on the thematic presentations during the Friends' meetings, organized each year in January and in June.

The digital version of the Biographical Dictionary of Socialism and the Labour Movement in the Netherlands (BWSA) (in Dutch) contains more than 645 biographies of men and women who played a role in the labour movement in a broad sense: the well-known forerunners, as well as less prominent figures; socialists, liberals, anarchists, Catholics, communists and Christians, politicians, trade union administrators, freethinkers, suffragists, artists and many others.