Amsab-ISG
Bagattenstraat 174
9000 Ghent
Tel: +32 (0)9 224 00 79
E-mail: info@amsab.be
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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.
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
This edition includes a look at the tense relationship between Belgian socialist leader Emile Vandervelde and Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and a deep dive into Studio Stone – a unique photo collection by two pioneers of modern photography from the interwar period, much of which is preserved at Amsab-ISG.
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
In this edition: the union world of government personnel, the logbook of the Borze der Compagnons Boek-drukkers der stad Gent, farewell to photographer Lieve Colruyt, the archive of the non-profit organization Burgerdienst voor de Jeugd, Akte van de Hoop (Deed of Hope), and our Studio Stone exhibition.
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the night shelter , the Ghent Work of the Night Shelter, disease-specific patient associations , the archive of the Ghent Cyclists' Union , documents from the United States Escape Program from our collection and the exhibition Young and Queer since the Sixties .
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- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About Frans Masereel as the inspiration for the first graphic novelists, the March Feier at the Friedhof der Märzgefallenen in Berlin as a popular protest in a context of war and revolution, the photo collection of Variétés in Amsab-ISG, the strike of the employees of the Antwerp Grand Bazaar in 1936…
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- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the citizen movement for the "Restoration of Historical Memory" in Spain, the secret contacts between Belgian socialists and State Security in London, a new Social Pact, cholera and corona, the significance of August Vermeylen today, the archives of the Merelbeke Medical Center and Arthur De Decker, Walter De Mulder's photographs, websites as a new source for the history of tomorrow...
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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.
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- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
On Union Minière's political intervention in Congolese independence, the sexual revolution as a flexible historical concept, 'good' and 'bad' historians of Belgian Congo, the Wilchar collection at Amsab-ISG, and on books.
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- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
On the role of the International of War Opponents in the Flemish peace movement, the development of Flemish protest against genetically modified organisms, a fiery essay by Gramsci, the archives of the Ecuadorian Esmeraldas Center, gouaches promoting edifying youth literature…
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- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About Jules Ruhl , the 'apostle of the Belgian animal protection movement', the experiences of two master students with an oral history project on male and transgender sex work in Antwerp, the class conflicts on the steamships from Antwerp to America in the late 19th century, and some important acquisitions of the Suzan Daniel Fund .
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- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About how Belgian refugees ended up in a concentration camp in Spain during WWII, first-generation Turkish women speaking, the wealth of information in the Belgian picture postcard , and an emotional discovery in the Amsab-ISG image collection.
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