The Netherlands
Introduction
Traditionally, acquisitions related to the Netherlands have included socialism and the labor movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since the 1970s, the social movement has expanded to include environmental issues, human rights, squatters, and similar subjects. The legacy of these new social movements can be found at the Institute as well.
The library collections cover a much larger area of political and economic history, the history of ideas, social conditions, and health care in the Netherlands since the early modern period.
The collections are accessible through an online catalogue for print and audiovisual materials and an online index of archives. The latter includes individual records of archives as well as a list of all archives that deal with the Netherlands (browse: 'Netherlands'). It is also possible to submit a search for the catalogue, index, and various other databases in the IISH search platform.
Full text of the description of the collections on the Netherlands is also available as a pdf-file (146 Kb).