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For LGBT+ migrants, dating apps are about much more than sex10 December 2021When you think of migration, you probably won’t immediately think of dating apps. Yet such apps are important to many migrants, such as those who iden...
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust26 November 2021In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grab...
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Decolonising the history of Africa was a difficult process23 November 2021With 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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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn17 November 2021Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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Reseach funding for 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict'10 November 2021Mirjam de Bruijn has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the research project 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Confl...
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia09 November 2021The 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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Writing history together in the Transvaal18 October 2021Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and...
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Jeroen Duindam appointed new academic director of the Institute for History01 October 2021The Institute for History has a new academic director. Professor of Early Modern History Jeroen Duindam will take on this role from 1 September. ‘You ...
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Call for Papers: Book Diplomacy conference29 September 2021On 28 and 29 April 2022 the conference ''Book Diplomacy’ in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' takes place at Leiden University. T...
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery27 September 2021What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in h...
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Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul06 September 2021Most of us know that Venice, Genoa, and Florence were major Mediterranean powers during the Renaissance. But did you know that in terms of trade and s...
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'13 August 2021A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 202...
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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’12 July 2021It 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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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’06 July 2021In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this seco...
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing28 June 2021Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After ...