The IISH will be closed on Friday 10 September because of the celebration of its 75th anniversary. See also our jubilee program.

New Publications
New publications in IISH series: Forging Political Identity. Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France 1900-1939 and Translocality. The Study of Globalising Processes from a Southern Perspective.

New Issue IRSH
Contents, summaries, and bibliography of volume 55 part 2 of the International Review of Social History.

41st IALHI Conference
The 41st International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) conference on 1-4 September 2010 will be hosted by the IISH.

Research Fellowships 2011
IISH launches a fellowship programme for researchers from Asia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union countries. The call for applications is open until 1 October 2010.

New Acquisitions
An overview of recent acquisitions: papers from W. Kendall, H. Elfriede Rosenstrauch, letters from the Netherlands East Indies, a rich documentation on Roma and Mr. Wibaut's umbrella and cane.

Congress ICHS 2010
The 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences has been held in Amsterdam from 22-28 August. The Congress was jointly organized by KNHG, UvA, KB and IISH.

History of Medicine
New issue of Global South, the SEPHIS e-magazine, a special on the history of medicine in the global South.

Finding Aids
An overview of archival finding aids, published in the first half of 2010.

IISH Research Paper
A Complicated Solidarity. The Swedish Labour Movement and Solidarność by Klaus Misgeld, IISH Research Paper no. 45, is now available online.

An Extraordinary Bookcase
An extraordinary bookcase from the IISH collections is on display at an exhibition on the Dutch avant garde architect Robert van 't Hoff.