Dutch and Colonial History
The team Dutch and Colonial History at Leiden University researches and teaches the history of the Netherlands and its (former) colonies from around 1550 to the present, with a strong focus on the intersection of political and cultural issues.
News
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Johan Visser launches the Dutch Atlantic Sources platform: ‘Enough material for a lifetime of research’ -
‘The countryside is more than just farmers and tractors’: Judith Pollmann to use Spinoza Prize to promote rural history -
News shaped the seventeenth-century Atlantic world -
Where do the stereotypes about Africa come from? -
‘Interaction between politics, science and colonial impact often overlooked’
Publications
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An Ocean of Rumours. News and Information in the Atlantic World -
The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe -
A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden -
Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century -
Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America. From the Late Medieval Period to the Present