Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a ...

In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an i...

Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different appro...

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...

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...

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has granted four grants to Leiden humanities scholars. They get to spend this money on research on a topic of their c...

Three Leiden students will be sharing their knowledge of history while playing video games. The livestreams are part of the ‘Streaming the Past’ proj...

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...

Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work in an integrated,...

For every period, it is a challenge to unearth the details of political trafficking; yet the effort needs to include all relevant persons, groups, and...

Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on ...

In large numbers, lecturers from the History study programme responded to the call to share tips for online and hybrid education. Everyone can now tak...

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...

On January 28 and 29, 2021 the conference ‘Imperial Artefacts: History, Law and the Looting of Cultural Property’ took place online. This first of its...

A study programme all about cities and their issues. Three years ago, the bachelor's programme Urban Studies was a newcomer in The Hague. By now, the ...