About the collection

Amsab-ISG is the memory of the social movements in Flanders and Belgium, from the mid-19th century to the present day.

Our collection focuses on important themes such as labor, the environment, migration, gender, human rights, and global justice. It includes archives from trade unions, political parties, health insurance funds, NGOs, cultural organizations, and engaged artists. Our heritage comprises archival files, library collections, audiovisual materials, art, and intangible heritage—increasingly in digital form.

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Edito: Paule Verbruggen

About the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, the genesis of the United Nations in 1945, the whistleblowers who exposed the harsh reality of Belgian colonial policy, the iconoclasm against Belgian colonial heritage, Leopold II and the coast, how to make old digital media readable again, and archives as societal memory.

Edito

Paule Verbruggen

Contributions

- Bram Constandt, Jasper Truyens & Annick Willem, The Healing Power of the 1920 Olympic Games: A Historical Look at the Antwerp Olympics
- Geert Van Goethem, Security First: The Birth of the United Nations and the Lost Dream of Peace

Essays

Jan Breman, On Jules Marchal and whistleblowers who were not heard. Notes on the Belgian postcolonial debates
. Davy Verbeke, Did Sisyphus move a stone? Contested Belgian colonial heritage and the commemoration of commemoration (2004-2020).

Noted

Marc Constandt, Leopold II, the Belgian coast and Congo

Collection

- Maarten Savels, Digital Repair Cafe. Obsolete wearers reveal their secrets through vintage hardware

- Jeroen Fernandez-Alonso & Kim Robensyn, Polyphony, social media and ethics in the archive – Twitter case study

Books

Piet Creve, Idesbald Goddeeris, Amandine Lauro & Guy Vanthemsche (eds.), Colonial Congo: A History in Questions

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