International Institute of Social History
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| Abbreviation | IISH/IISG |
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The International Institute of Social History (IISH/IISG) is one of the largest archives of labor and social history in the world. Located in Amsterdam, its one million volumes and 2,300 archival collections include the papers of major figures and institutions in radical leftist thought. The IISH was founded in 1935 by Nicolaas Posthumus as an independent scientific institute. It is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Collections
[edit | edit source]The International Institute of Social History specializes in international labor and social history, including that of the Netherlands. As of 2000, it holds one million volumes, 80,000 audiovisual items, 2,400 serials, three million digital files, and 30,000 linear feet of manuscripts across 2,300 collections. Among the latter are institutional collections from Amnesty International, Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and Federación Anarquista Ibérica, the European Trade Union Confederation, Freedom Press, Greenpeace International, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party, Socialist International, and the personal papers of Emma Goldman, Karl Marx, Max Nettlau, Lev Trotsky, Karl Kautsky, Ernest Mandel, and Sylvia Pankhurst.[1] The institute is the foremost repository of anarchist documents in the world.[2][3]
History
[edit | edit source]Nicolaas Posthumus, a socialist and first chair appointment in economic history in the Netherlands,[1] founded the International Institute of Social History in 1935.[4] To examine how labour relations develop over time, IISG collected archives from all over the world. During the first years Posthumus succeeded in obtaining many papers from anarchists (Bakunin manuscripts), other socialist and social democratic and Marxist movements from Germany and Russia.[5]
Before the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Posthumus was able to move the most valuable archives to London. During the war, many remaining IISG archives were transported to Nazi Germany. They were not destroyed. Most of the papers were rediscovered in Hannover in 1946, and some other parts were later found in archives in Moscow in 1991, and returned to Amsterdam.[6]
In 1989 the International Institute of Social History moved to new premises: an old warehouse at the Cruquiusweg in the eastern part of Amsterdam. This building also housed the Press Museum but in 2017 that museum became a part of the Dutch Institute for Image and Sound (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) in Hilversum.[7]
IISG hosts part of the IHLIA LGBT Heritage collection (LGBT Archives).[8]
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Bakunin Archives (IISG) -
Communist Manifesto (Marx)
See also
[edit | edit source]- Swiss Social Archives in Zurich
References
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- ^ 'Anarchism', Website IISG
- ^ History of IISG (more)
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- ^ "A number of individual, organisational and thematic archives are accommodated in the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam." In: Collection IHLIA, Archives
Bibliography
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Further reading
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External links
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- Index to the Archives of the IISH
- Archive about the IISH's own history
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