IISH News Service August 2008

New items on the IISH website in July 2008

New items on the IISH website in July 2008:

[url]http://www.chineseposters.net/[/url]
Presentations of posters on sports from the People's Republic of China

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/nationalaccounts/enqueste/[/url]
Sources which enable us to make a benchmark estimate of Holland's economy around 1500 are now available online (Dutch text)

[url]http://www.tseg.nl/2008-2/[/url]
Contents, summaries, and reviews of the second issue of the 'Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis' (TSEG) (Text in Dutch, summaries in English)

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-90-8506-551-7.php[/url]
A new publication describes the past, present, and future of biographies of entrepeneurs (Dutch text)

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/scotland/[/url]
Data of the Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780, now available at the Historical Prices and Wages website

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/newbooks.php[/url]
New editions in the series International Studies in Social History: 'Learning on the Shop Floor', 'A Social History Of Spanish Labour', and 'Alternative Exchanges - Second-Hand Circulations from the Sixteenth Century to the Present'

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/psmalaysia.php[/url]
Recently the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) deposited the first part of its archive with the IISH.

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

Until 31 August 2008
Exhibition: 'Willem. In geuren en kleuren'
Political drawings by 'Willem' (Bernhard Willem Holtrop)
In: Persmuseum - in Dutch

Until 21 September 2008
Exhibition: 'China in Posters: The Dreamt Reality'
Posters belonging to the collections of IISH and of Stefan Landsberger
In: Kunsthal, Rotterdam

9 - 13 September 2008
39th International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) congress
In: Johannesburg, South Africa

11 September - 9 November 2008
Exhibition: 'Censorship through the ages'
In: Persmuseum - in Dutch

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