IISH News Service, 4 May 2009

New items on the IISH website in April 2009

New items on the IISH website in April 2009:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/service.php[/url]
The IISH reading room is closed from Thursday 30 April until Tuesday 5 May 2009 included.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/rheinischezeitung/[/url]
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May), the IISH calls attention to Prussian censorship and Karl Marx's brief career as an editor for the Rheinische Zeitung.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/hbm/slovenen/[/url]
The Historical Image Archive on Migrants shows photos of Slovenians in the Netherlands (text in Dutch).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/newbooks.php[/url]
New publications: Western Marxism and the Soviet Union by Marcel van der Linden, and Ernest Mandel - A Rebel's Dream Deferred by Jan Willem Stutje.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/acquisitions2009.php[/url]
An overview of recent acquisitions: Chinese posters from the Jean-Yves Bajon collection, booklets for Russian village libraries, personal papers of Leo Frank and Tom Küsters, HAPIN archive.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/anti-apartheid/history/[/url]
Web dossier on 'The Netherlands against apartheid 1948-1994', part of the NIZA collections on anti-apartheid and Southern Africa.

[url]http://www.tseg.nl/2009-1/[/url]
Contents, summaries, and reviews of Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis (TSEG) vol 6 (2009) no 1 (Text in Dutch, summaries in English).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/irsh/54-1.php[/url]
Contents, summaries, and bibliography of volume 54 part 1 of the International Review of Social History.

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

Until 10 May 2009
Exhibition: 'Politiek in Prent 2008' [Dutch political cartoons]
In: Persmuseum - 'in Dutch'

13 - 14 May 2009
WorldCat Mashathon. Sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and IISH

26 May 2009
Lecture by Wiebke Schulz: 'Careers in Context'

2 June 2009
Lecture by Professor Bozhong Li: 'China and the world: China's economic change and its relation with the outside world since 1800'

19 June 2009
Conference of the Netherlands Economic History Archive (NEHA) '400 Years of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009'

25 June 2009
'Gender Dimension of the Worst Forms of Child Labour.' Public Meeting and Round Table Discussion organized by IREWOC, in cooperation with IPEC-ILO, UCW Program and IISH
In: The Hague

25 June 2009
Nineteenth Meeting of the Friends of the IISH Lecture on 'Financial crises through the ages', by Dr Joost Jonker of Utrecht University

30 June 2009
Lecture by Mario Rutten: 'Labour and Middle Classes in Asia and the West'
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