Amsab-ISG
Bagattenstraat 174
9000 Ghent
Tel: +32 (0)9 224 00 79
E-mail: info@amsab.be
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At Amsab-ISG, we collaborate with a dedicated team of volunteers who make a crucial contribution to our operations. They support us in the assessment and processing of the collection, participate in research, and assist with public outreach activities.
Are you interested in socially engaged movements and preserving their heritage? Read below to find out how you can join our volunteer team.
- 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 .
€7.00
- 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…
€7.00
- 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...
€7.00
- 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.
€7.00
- 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.
€7.00
- 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…
€7.00
- 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 .
€7.00
- 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.
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the Belgian solidarity movement with the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s, the fascinating life story of the 'dark red' Ghent resident Ferdinand Minnaert and the rich Camille Huysmans collection in Amsab-ISG .
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the difficult relationship between the socialist Camille Huysmans and the banker Paul Timbal during WWII, the coup in Chile in 1973 , the first passenger train in Belgium and the migration collection in Amsab-ISG.
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the role of the women's movement in the struggle for independence in Aden (present-day Yemen), the project Past Week by history students about the Ghent commons , the phenomenon of the beach donkeys and the co-creative process behind the exhibition 'We have never been the Turks' .
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the Belgian People's Houses , the experiences of former miner Constant Malva , a publication about Lalla Vandervelde , the theme of migration in Amsab-ISG and the appreciation of hashtags .
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the reproductive role of Moroccan women from Mechelen , advertising campaigns on the Flemish coast , a manual from 1911 in connection with the Ghent municipal elections from our collection, the Platform Hulpverlening Ledeberg and a testimony from a delegate at the VRT.
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About vegetarianism in Belgium , oral testimonies from the metal industry , the search for the meaning of a winged flagpole from our collection, an exhibition about our cycling heritage and the archives of the non-profit organisation Aktiegroep Leefmilieu Kempen (VALK).
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
€23.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
€42.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
€44.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About integration in Flanders , the identity evolution in historiography , Amnesty International in Flanders, the universality of human rights and the processing of the archives of the non-profit organisation JONG.
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About Brussels resident Joseph Milot , socialist activist at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, the Dutch historian Barbara Henkes , Lode Verbraecken , a Belgian brigadier in the Spanish trenches, the digitalization of construction drawings and the archive of the De Wielewaal Ghent department.
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the Belgian backroom politics prior to the NATO Double Decision , the political speeches of August Vermeylen and the 100-year history of the De Mick sanatorium .
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
On the changing role of the pharmacist in the 1960s, a symposium on the very diverse aspects of the abortion issue, and the participatory project Schafttijd (Breakfast Time) of Amsab-ISG.
€7.00
- Edito: Paule Verbruggen
About the short-lived socialist republic of Georgia (1918-1921) , the failed attempt of the socialists to avert First World War bathing cabin on the Belgian coast .
€7.00
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