Preliminary Programme ESSHC
The preliminary programme of the 8th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), in Ghent 13-16 April 2010, has now been published.

Iran: the bloody summer of 2009
The IISH has started an extensive project to document the presidential elections in Iran in June 2009. Contributions to this valuable collection are welcome.

Chinese Propaganda Posters at Europalia
Exhibition of Chinese propaganda posters from the collections of IISH and Stefan Landsberger. Europalia, Brussels, from 7 November 2009 until 14 February 2010.

Dutch Trade Unions in Wartime
New website launched about the Dutch Trade Union Movement in the Second World War: Vakbeweging in de Oorlog (text in Dutch).

Gender and Power in Islamic History
Volume 29 of the Yearbook for Women's History, about Gender and Power in Islamic History, was published. (Text in Dutch, summaries in English)

New Issue TSEG
Contents, summaries, and reviews of the third issue of the Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis (TSEG). (Text in Dutch, summaries in English)

New Publications
Über Marx hinaus, edited by Karl Heinz Roth and IISH research director Marcel van der Linden. Also published no. 15 in the IISH series International Studies in Social History: Supervision and Authority in Industry

Global Migration and Mobility
Call for papers for the third conference on Migration and mobility in a global historical perspective, in Taiwan, 26-28 August 2010.

Inventory Poncke Princen
The inventory of the archive of human rights activist Poncke Princen is now available online. See also the more than 3,000 other archival descriptions.

New Publications
Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories. Studies in Honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and A view of the protest movements 40 years after, from a global perspective, both edited, among others, by IISH Research Director Marcel van der Linden.