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        <agent>Mike Bryant</agent>
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        <agent>Matthew Haultain-Gall</agent>
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      <autform xml:lang="eng">Amsab - Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis</autform>
      <parform>Amsab - Institute of Social History</parform>
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      <parform>Amsab-ISH</parform>
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          <geogarea>Europe</geogarea>
          <location localType="postal address">
            <country>Belgium</country>
            <municipalityPostalcode>9000</municipalityPostalcode>
            <street>Bagattenstraat 174</street>
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          <telephone>+32 9 224 00 79</telephone>
          <fax>+32 9 233 67 11</fax>
          <webpage href="http://www.amsab.be">http://www.amsab.be</webpage>
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              <p xml:lang="eng"><![CDATA[Amsab-ISH is an officially recognized Flemish cultural heritage institution engaged in archiving documents and other items of progressive social movements and persons. It was founded in 1980 by Herman Balthazar and Wouter Steenhaut. Both of them were employed at the Department of Modern History at the University of Ghent at that time.

Amsab-Institute of Social History became an officially recognized Flemish cultural institution in 1985. 

Since the establishment of Amsab Institute of Social History, research has been one of its core activities. As a cultural heritage institution, research is conducted in concert with Amsab’s collection management and public services. Scientific research supports and provides direction to the institute’s acquisition and collection accessibility policies, as well as inspiring activities in the field of public history, popularising research and community service. This provides a clear added value for the global profile of the institute and permits Amsab- distinguish itself from purely academic research entities.

The institute has a preference for research topics that fit the thematic pillars underpinning our collection policy, in particular:

•	labor movement

•	new social movements

•	ecological movements

•	migration history


For more information about the history of the institution, please consult [its website](http://www.amsab.be/)]]></p>
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              <p xml:lang="eng"><![CDATA[Amsab preserves and collects records from the 19th century onwards. Materials are related to the history of socialist organisations, radical left-wing organisations, new social movements and groups involved in action for peace, women, the Third World, a different globalization, gay and lesbian rights, migrant rights, etc. Amsab-ISH has also become the archive of the green movement. Geographically the institute's collections focus on Flanders / Belgium and, if relevant, on the international context.]]></p>
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            <opening>Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.</opening>
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                  <p xml:lang="eng"><![CDATA[Amsab's collection can be consulted in the reading room.

To consult archival documents and library material, make a reservation through the [catalogue](http://opac.amsab.be/). To do this you first have to log in and create an account. You will be notified via e-mail when the documents are available. Because these have to be collected from external depots, this can take a few days, but never longer than a week.

If you do not find what you want, or you can not reserve certain matters, send us an 
email to leeszaal@amsab.be.

Please note that archives can only be requested at item level. If you plan to consult a larger share of items or a complete archive, you can indicate this in the reservation form (Comments section). There you can also specify which volumes or numbers of magazines you want to consult.

Also, digitised documents or documents that are available online can not be accessed in the reading room. This applies to image documents, digitised journals, inventories of archives etc.]]></p>
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