IISH News Service 9 November 2007

New items on the IISH website in October

New items on the IISH website in October 2007:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/asiaguide.php[/url]
The new 'Guide to the Asian Collections' presents a survey of collections at the IISH.

[url]http://www.ichs2010.org/themes.asp[/url]
The themes and sessions of the Amsterdam 2010 congress have been adopted by the General Assembly of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-0-8156-3121-7.php[/url]
New publication by Marina de Regt: 'Pioneers or Pawns. Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen.'

[url]http://www.surinaamsepers.net/[/url]
The Dutch Press Museum presents a new website and exhibition on the history of the Surinamese press: K'ranti! De Surinaamse pers, 1774-2007. (In Dutch)

[url]http://labourhistory.net/raf/[/url]
A collection of over 1,000 documents by and on the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction, 'RAF') is now available online.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-81-7596-496-9.php[/url]
New publication by Rana P. Behal and Marcel van der Linden: 'India's Labouring Poor. Historical Studies c. 1600 - c.2000'.

[url]http://search.iisg.nl/[/url]
New search portal: search the IISG catalogue, archives, image and sound collections, and six other databases all at once at search.iisg.nl.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/ilo.php[/url]
On 5 and 6 October 2007 IISH and AMSAB jointly presented a conference on the past and present of the International Labor Organization.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/wonen.php[/url]
The theme of this year's history week (13-21 October 2007) was 'Housing in the Netherlands'. A selection of IISH collections. (In Dutch)

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Upcoming events: [url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/[/url]

22 October - 21 December 2007
Exhibition: Noord-Korea, onbemind maakt onbekend - photographs by Frans Boom

25 October 2007 - 2 March 2008
Exhibition: "K'ranti! De Surinaamse Pers, 1774-2007" [the Surinamese press]In: Persmuseum - (in Dutch)

16 November 2007
Workshop: "Over de zin en onzin van kwantitatief verenigingsonderzoek" [quantitative research on organizations] (in Dutch)

27 November 2007
Lecture: "Vergelijking Engelse en Nederlandse Communistische Beweging" by Elke Weesjes [comparison of British and Dutch communist movement] (in Dutch)

11 - 13 December 2007
Workshop: "Gender and Work in the Early Modern Northern European world. Institutions and economic performances in international comparative perspective"
In: Uppsala, Sweden

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