Historian Robert Stein is a lecturer in Medieval History. He was recently awarded the Senior Teaching Qualification. What did he learn from the STQ tr...

Raymond Fagel, university lecturer in General History, wrote a book about his research on Spanish commander Mondragón. He spared Zierikzee during the ...

Akke de Hoog (26) helps asylum seekers whose application has been rejected to plan their future and voluntary return to their country of origin. Her m...

An inclusive society in which everyone has equal access to health and wealth is the focus of the new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre on the Governance of ...

Sam de Schutter (Phd Candidate at the Institute for History) received an Honorable Mention by the Disability History Association.

In recent years, the Walad Djifir from Chad found themselves in a turbulent environment due to the unrest in Nigeria, Libya and the Central African Re...

We continue to work from home as much as possible. How are the staff members of the Institute for History doing? Mike Schmidli shares his experience b...

On 28 and 29 January 2021 the conference 'Imperial Artefacts: History, Law and the Looting of Cultural Property' takes place at Leiden University. Key...

Maxine David is a lecturer in European Politics in the Institute for History and is a busy bee when it comes to teaching. When countries started locki...

All the world leaders have had to choose an approach during the global Covid-19 crisis. But which approach is the most effective? André Gerrits, Profe...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...

We have been working from home for over 9 weeks. How are the staff members of the Institute for History doing? Andrew Gawthorpe shares his experience ...

KNAW has elected eighteen new members, including two professors at Leiden University and one who studied and obtained his PhD in Leiden. The New Acade...

Karen Smith is a university lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History and she occupies a unique position: she has one foot in t...

A research team of fifteen people – representing domains such as political economy, international relations, law, history and public administration - ...