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2 unusual facts about International Institute of Social History


Lawrence Krader

For his study of the roots of the theory of evolution in the 19th century he received support from the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) during 1963-1975.

Toma Sik

The International Institute of Social History keeps a vast collection of papers from Toma Sik in several languages, such as Hebrew, Hungarian, and English.


Anarchism in Brazil

Most anarchist newspaper issues can be found in the Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth in Campinas, but there are also examplars in other Brazilian archives, in Milan and in the IISH in Amsterdam.

Diego Abad de Santillán

Further unpublished works, Ideas y suggestiones para una nueva estrategía revolutionaria (Ideas and Suggestions for a New Revolutionary Strategy) and Delincuencia política (Political Criminality), along with the rest of his extensive archives, are held in Amsterdam at the International Institute of Social History.

International Institute for Research and Education

Marcel van der Linden (Netherlands), International Institute of Social History, labour historian and co-editor of The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870-1914.

Kurt Baschwitz

In 1935 Kurt Baschwitz was offered a position with the International Institute of Social History and then in the same year he started to lecture on the history of newspapers at the University of Amsterdam.


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