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Lecture and roundtable discussion with Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski 22 April 2022
On 21 April 2022, Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski visited Leiden. The theme of his visit was the role of law and historiography in shaping collecti...
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The link between The Hague bonfires and different types of citizenship 27 December 2021
For the third year in a row, the bonfires in the Duindorp and Scheveningen neighbourhoods in The Hague during New Year's Eve have been cancelled. Acco...
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Decolonising the history of Africa was a difficult process 23 November 2021
With the aid of the General History of Africa (GHA) series of books, PhD candidate Larissa Schulte Nordholt researched what it meant to decolonise the...
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia 09 November 2021
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly supp...
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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’ 12 July 2021
It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the com...
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn 25 June 2021
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a ...
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden 18 May 2021
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell in...
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming' 18 May 2021
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debu...
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NIAS fellowship for Mike Schmidli 17 May 2021
Mike Schmidli has been awarded a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). From September 2021, he will spend 5 months at NIA...
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How to say goodbye to politics? 15 March 2021
New ministers, new state secretaries and new members of parliament. Around the time of the elections, we often talk about the new faces, but there are...
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Honorable Mention for PhD Candidate Sam de Schutter 30 June 2020
Sam de Schutter (Phd Candidate at the Institute for History) received an Honorable Mention by the Disability History Association.
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Sam de Schutter wins the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize 02 March 2020
Sam de Schutter won the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize 2019 for his article “A Global Approach to Local Problems? How to Write a Longer, Deeper, an...
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Experiencing Austria through archival research 30 January 2020
Frederique Visser is Research Master student and Student Assistent to the Foundation for Austrian Studies. She writes about her experiences on her res...
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Bernhard Rieger receives senior fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich 06 December 2019
Bernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled "Making Soc...
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Rethinking Disability Webcomics in the Fȇte de La Science at Sorbonne University 18 October 2019
The ERC-funded project Rethinking Disability was featured in the Fȇte de La Science which was held on 11 October 2019 at Sorbonne University in Paris.