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Lecturer and students taking action: 'Anton de Kom deserves a statue in The Hague’05 March 2021Why doesn't the Surinamese resistance hero and independence fighter Anton de Kom have a memorial site in his former hometown, The Hague, while there a...
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NWA-grant for project 'Streaming the past'21 December 2020Researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Archaeology, with the support of the communication departments of these Faculties and th...
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Podcast: the history of self-tracking10 December 2020Fenneke Sysling has recently launched a podcast: Het Gemeten Zelf (in Dutch). This five-part podcast series explores the history of self-tracking.
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New collaboration project will make the VOC archive of Kerala more accessible04 December 2020With financial support from the Dutch National Archives, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, as well as the Dutch Ministry of Foreig...
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How a Dutchman contributed to the rapid development of Singapore12 November 2020In 1960, Albert Winsemius started to help the city state of Singapore achieve its rapid rise out of economic misery. He helped the Singaporean governm...
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Student with coronavirus: ‘My lecturer helped me a lot’11 November 2020Two months ago, history student Willemijn contracted coronavirus. At the time she was taking a course given by lecturer Rens Tacoma. What can you do i...
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Kim Beerden: 'The programme accreditation was good for the team spirit.'22 October 2020Accreditations. All study programmes have to deal with them and once every six years they cause a good amount of tension. How do you survive the asses...
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New LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity15 October 2020The start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...
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Blogging about the Middle Ages: love magic, face masks and video games13 October 2020Three years ago, on 13 October 2017, the Leiden Medievalists Blog was established. In their blogs, Leiden researchers from all disciplines talk about ...
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William Michael Schmidli: ‘Regardless of the vote count, Trump will not leave the White House easily’08 October 2020With only a month until the 2020 United States elections, William Michael Schmidli, University Lecturer of American history, reflects on the latest de...
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The Dutch Revolt through Italian eyes01 October 2020Italian historiographers in the 16th and 17th centuries wrote remarkably often about the Dutch Revolt, better known as the Eighty Years' War (1568-164...
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The United Nations at 75: what are the challenges for the future?25 September 2020The United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. With the corona crisis and rising nationalism, there’s not much cause for celebration. W...
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Pilgrim conference: high time for an indigenous and more diverse perspective24 August 2020Historians and experts in American studies from Leiden University are holding an online international conference about the arrival of the Pilgrims in ...
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‘The Rooseveltian Century’: one of the best MOOCs according to New York Magazine11 August 2020According to New York Magazine, the massive open online course (MOOC) ‘The Rooseveltian Century’ by Professor by Special Appointment Giles Scott-Smith...
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Funding for three new Humanities’ PhD candidates04 August 2020Three new PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities will receive funding from the Programme Office Sustainable Humanities and NWO. The aim of the gr...