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International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam

Page history last edited by Paul Keenan 14 years ago

Date of tip: 12 July 2005 (last research stay: February 2005). 

Source:  Katja Seidel, katja.seidel@port.ac.uk

 

Location: Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

Contact Details: Tel + 31 20 6685866; Fax + 31 20 6654181

 

Possible Accommodation: The archives are situated outside the town centre. Write to miekeijzermans@irfr.cistron.nl for accommodation. She is one of the archivists and rents rooms to researchers. Her house is within twenty minutes’ walking distance of the IISH. 

 

How to get there: Amsterdam is easy to reach by train (Amsterdam Central Station) and plane (Amsterdam Airport Schiphol). However, the IISH is a bit outside the city centre, but you can get there by tram and bus. A direct connection from Amsterdam Central Station to the IISH is the bus no. 43 (get off at stop “Cruquiusweg”). See the website for further information.   

 

Language: Apart from Dutch, English is spoken by the archivists and most of them both understand and speak German.  

 

Getting started: Detailed inventories of most of the collections are available on the website. 

General information: info@iisg.nl

User service and reading room: user.service@iisg.nl

 

Opening Hours: Monday-Friday 9.00 - 17.00. The Institute is closed on Dutch public holidays and memorial days.

 

General working conditions: The reading room is quite spacious, therefore usually not very crowded and it has a nice view over the “Gracht”. They have a webcam so you can see for yourself: 

http://www.iisg.nl/ webcam/index.html

They have about six computers with Internet access in the reading room. The reading room is also equipped with inventories and literature on economics, labour and social history. 

 

Consultation: No special requirements, however, you should contact the archives well in advance and ask whether the collections you wish to see are restricted in access. Especially for some of the personal papers you might need permission from the relatives. On arrival at the IISH you have to sign in at the reading room’s information desk.  

 

Policy on technology: You can bring and use your own laptop. However, according to the IISH website, the use of digital cameras is prohibited. 

 

Photocopy policy: You can order copies in the reading room by completing an order form (Note: requests can be made every day between 10:30-11:30 and 13:30-14:30 at the reproduction section window in the reading room). A copy costs € 0.40 per page. There is also a self-service photocopier in the reading room for copying library material (25 copies for € 2.50). 

 

Particularities: Every Tuesday there is the possibility of having lunch with the archivists and other researchers in the cafeteria of the IISH. Everybody is asked to give a short introduction to his or her research topic.  

 

How to apply for classified files: You should contact the IISH well in advance of your planned visit because there are restrictions on some of the collections and you might have to ask for permission of access.  

 

Contact name in case of questions regarding classified files: I had an email contact with Mieke Ijzermans [mij@iisg.nl], but I think that, depending on the topic, every researcher will have to contact different archivists responsible for their area.

 

General Assessment: The IISH is the place to go when researching into the history of labour and social movements as well as economic history. It holds over 2,700 collections, among them the personal papers of Marx and Engels. But also for European integration history it might be useful to see what the IISH has: e.g. they hold the private papers of Sicco Mansholt, the former vice-president of the Commission of the European Economic Community.  

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