Institute for History
The Leiden University Institute for History is responsible for the main part of the historical research carried out at Leiden University. The institute has a wide-ranging academic scope.
Its strong international orientation and focus on the study of European, American, Asian and African societies in a global context give the institute a unique character. The academic leaders connected to the institute's research programmes are internationally renowned scholars that engage in numerous networks, contribute to important conferences and publish with outstanding academic presses.
News
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New history of Leiden presented to the mayor: ‘Always been an incredibly diverse city’ -
Student conference full of new perspectives on inequality -
Leiden historian and Arabist awarded ERC Consolidator Grants -
Contribute to the fifth edition of the national Historians’ Days in Leiden -
Municipality of Leiden apologises for role in slavery and announces further research -
Fenna IJtsma delved into four centuries of Leiden greenery: 'Leiden people have always sought out greenery' -
The colonial contacts of the firm De Heyder & Co: ‘Completely intertwined with the colonial market’ -
Leiden University Global Seed Fund for Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz -
Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking -
'The Pieterskerk has always defined Leiden's identity' -
Erasmus+ grant for virtual exchanges: 'We want to deliver ecologically aware global citizens' -
What our experts have to say about the key issues in the Dutch elections -
‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargon -
‘Irregular warfare is not going away, however much we’d like it to’ -
Do’s and don’ts for an effective immigration policy -
Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara -
From market-driven thinking to ‘Build, build, build’: Leiden experts on the housing crisis -
Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’ -
Karel Berkhoff appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Focus on Ukrainian history a milestone’ -
Three new Master's specialisations in History: ‘More in line with students’ wishes’ -
CfP: Human Development and Its Outliers -
Faculty Teaching Prize for Mike Schmidli -
80 Years of Peace in Europe? -
‘Louisiana wanted to restart the transatlantic slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century’ -
Thirteen NWO Open Competition XS grants for Leiden researchers -
Leiden MAIR Hosts 2nd Humanities & International Relations Graduate Conference -
Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers -
Leiden mayor visits Humanities: ‘The diversity of subjects is fantastic’ -
First joint meeting 'Collecting Global Heritage' in Leiden -
Additional funding for five experimental and innovative research projects
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4 KIEM grants for Humanities -
‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’ -
CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollmann: ‘We continually reference the past’ -
Adolescence: Sexual Becoming in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives -
Leiden researchers receive KIEM grant to explore materiality in ancient religions -
Vicente Fisher de Miranda Rodrigues awarded Cornelis Thiele Prize -
CfP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine -
Resistance against the Dutch and German Occupiers: Indonesian Students in Leiden -
Jamel Buhari: ‘Queer migration is intertwined with other reasons for leaving’ -
How the Republic contributed to the French colonial empire: ‘People like you and me invested’ -
Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism
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Ammodo Science Fellowship for Sophie Rose's research on the perception of mental illness in the Dutch East Indies -
Wreck in the Wadden Sea: ‘Objects tell the story’ -
Keuzegids Masters 2025: History and Classics and Ancient Civilizations score well above average -
The A.G. Leventis Foundation supports Leiden ancient historians -
Rafal Matuszewski elected to the Young Academy of Europe -
Herman Paul new Scientific Director of the Institute of History: ‘A good working atmosphere is important’ -
Call for Papers: Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference -
Speed dating on Master’s Open Day: ‘What can you do with that master’s degree?’ -
Lydia Boer wins incentive prize for bachelor's thesis -
'The Butterflies of Upper Digul' now also published in Indonesia -
Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’ -
Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’ -
Healthcare and the Dutch East India Company: Two centuries of arrogance and challenges -
Lewis Wade Wins First Book Prize for 'Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France' -
Vicente Fischer de Miranda Rodrigues wins KHMW Brouwer Thesis Prize for History -
Household Slavery: 'An Overlooked Method of Enslaving People' -
Rudi van Maanen receives Cornelis Joppenszoon statuette -
The future of Europe is not about Europe -
‘Polarisation is good. Much better than an uneasy silence’ -
Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days' -
Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague -
Mehmet Kentel wins the OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize -
Rebekka Grossmann awarded Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship for research on the effects of migration on Cold War visual culture -
Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize -
Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants -
Opinion: The message 'ready for the fight' in the Defence White Paper raises concerns. -
Global Governance Journal comes to Leiden -
Pieter Slaman moved by the LUS Education Prize: ‘The most beautiful prize there is’ -
Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?' -
Leiden students research the Relief of Leiden: ‘It was a divided city’ -
Lotte: 'It was because of my colleagues that I chose history in Leiden' -
The forgotten world of Surinamese cloths and the Leiden Cotton Company -
‘Let politics be the focus at the State Opening of Parliament’ -
Eric Storm: ‘Nationalist politicians have a more international orientation than traditional parties’ -
Pieter Slaman wins 2024 LUS Teaching Prize -
Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’ -
Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre -
KIEM grant for 'Making up Migrants' -
Comenius grant for more diverse ancient history: 'Especially in the first year of the bachelor, the impact of a project is great' -
How the care of children was used as a weapon in the Holocaust -
Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers -
Jesse Dijkshoorn: ‘I had to learn to take time off’ -
Visit to Ghana: Leiden University strengthens ties with partners in Africa -
Herman Paul new KNAW member: ‘Challenges enough’ -
From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery -
Rafal Matuszewski awarded grant for workshop on adolescence and sexual maturity in historical and cross-cultural perspectives -
According to Professor Sarah Wolff, EU migration agreements are a bad solution to a non-existent problem -
Vanessa Mak and Herman Paul new KNAW members -
Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders win Die Haghe Prize 2024 -
‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands -
Rafal Matuszewski awarded a KNAW Early Career Partnership -
PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’ -
Santino Regilme Wins International Studies Association's Best Book in Human Rights - Honorable Mention, 2023-2024 -
Sigrid Kaag avant la lettre: Women played a significant role in eighteenth-century diplomacy -
The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco -
Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible' -
Call for Papers: Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation
In the Media
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Intigam Mamedov on The Conversation: ‘Trump’s sympathies might be with Kyiv’ -
Salvador Santino Regilme on Al Jazeera about a possible US attack on Venezuela: ‘Not a binary choice between ‘no attack’ and an Iraq-style invasion’ -
Eric Storm featured in Spanish media about his new book Nationalism -
Andrew Gawthorpe on France24 about Trump’s attack on Somalis -
Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: ‘US election results suggest Trump’s coalition of voters is collapsing’
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Andrew Gawthorpe on BBC about Donald Trump’s plan to exclude South Africa from the G20: ‘Unlikely’ -
Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: ‘Trump is not an isolationist’
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Salvador Santino in various media outlets on tensions between USA and Venezuela: ‘Pressure helps Trump claim results’ -
Fenneke Sysling in National Geographic on the Java Man: ‘Scientific proof for Indonesia’s greatness’ -
Nationalism by Eric Storm reviewed in Spanish newspapers
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Nationalism by Eric Storm in several Spanish newspapers
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Eric Storm’s Nationalism in Merdika: ‘A fresh lens on global history’ -
Sarah Wolff on BBC: ‘Denmark is reshaping migration policy in Europe’ -
Colleagues on The Conversation -
Santino Regilme in Public Seminar: 'Naked Oligarchy: How Billionaires Captured Power and Hollowed Out Democracy' -
Santino Regilme in EUobserver: 'The EU needs to research its own oligarchic capture' -
Salvador Santino Regilme in Transforming Society: 'Oligarchic Rivalry: US–China Tariffs and the Global Politics of Inequality' -
Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: 'Trump's Greenland plan ignores a history of segregation' -
Daniel Schade on Deutschland Heute: 'Border controls weaken Schengen' -
Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: 'Trump’s minerals deal unlikely to change the war' -
Salvador Santino Regilme in East Asia Forum: 'The Philippines confronts Duterte’s authoritarian legacy at The Hague' -
Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: 'Trump is less constrained than ever before' -
Daniel Schade in various media: 'Schengen is like the EU, it isn’t perfect and never can be.' -
Sarah Wolff on DW.com: 'It's not a choice to become a refugee or asylum seeker' -
Salvador Santino Regilme in Social Europe: 'Tax billionaires to save democracy' -
Eric Storm on BBC Brasil: 'Trump’s unilateral approach signals a dangerous precedent' -
Reviews of Nationalism in Times Literary Supplement and Foreign Affairs -
Andrew Gawthorpe in Global News: 'We’re heading to a world of much greater instability' -
Eric Storm on The Conversation: ‘Imperial tendencies are resurfacing around the world’ -
Andrew Gawthorpe in Various Media on Trump’s Policies
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Salvador Santino Regilme in The Associated Press: 'The U.S. aid freeze is a return to hard-power coercion' -
Eric Storm in UP ideas podcast: ‘Comparative studies on nationalism were missing ’ -
Eric Storm's book Nationalism in Wall Street Journal: "The conventional understanding of the nation does not reflect reality"
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Daniel Schade in The Washington Post: 'Schengen hasn't been fully functioning as intended since 2015' -
The Washington Post review of Eric Storm’s Nationalism: ‘Grand scale history’
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Miko Flohr in BBC documentary about Pompeii -
Andrew Gawthorpe in the Financial Times about the Republican primaries
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities -
Andrew Gawthorpe in The Guardian about the Republicans’ more radical agenda -
Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right -
Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina -
Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul -
Vineet Thakur and Karen Smith on western dominance in International Relations -
André Gerrits: ‘Coronavirus is speeding up social developments' -
As with Nixon: will the security services bring Trump down?
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Eugenio Cusumano on Euronews about EU's migration dilemma -
Blog of conference proceedings Connecting in Times of Duress -
Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden -
Alanna O'Malley on the election of new United Nations secretary-general António Guterres -
Wim Willems and Hanneke Verbeek are the winners of the Die Haghe prize of 2016 -
Book publication Wim Willems ‘Hagenezen die er mochten wezen’ -
Introducing Historians Without Borders -
History and Linguistics in Leiden #19 and #28 in QS ranking 2016 -
In memoriam: Professor Cees Fasseur -
Fulbright Archival Research Trip in New York (October 2015 – January 2016) -
Leiden Students help Create The Hague Manifesto to celebrate UN @ 70
Events
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Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine
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The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context
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Introducing Saskia Jaszoltowski, Visiting Professor Central European Studies
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Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries)
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover
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Technology and the State: Enlightenment Language Machines, Then and Now
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East Europe’s Forgotten Peasant Revolution: The Era of World Wars Reconsidered
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Household Dominium and Enslavement in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Empire
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From Enlightened Autocracy to Neomedieval Monarchism: The French Revolution Arrives in St. Petersburg
Books
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Naţionalismul. O istorie globală -
A Hydra of Business and Men. The Habsburg Asiento de Negros in Structuring the European Transatlantic Slave Trade -
Vices of the Learned. Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices -
Transnational Socialism and European Integration. The Socialist Group in the Early European Parliament -
A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden