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Speed dating on Master’s Open Day: ‘What can you do with that master’s degree?’What to study? 17 February 2025Master’s Open Day on 14 February was the chance to fire off questions at master’s students and teaching staff or at alumni during a speed date. Almost...
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Lydia Boer wins incentive prize for bachelor's thesis14 February 2025History student Lydia Boer has won the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt incentive prize. She receives the prize for her bachelor’s thesis The marriag...
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Now also in Indonesia: The butterflies of Boven-Digoel11 February 2025Three years ago, associate professor Alicia Schrikker published De vlinders van Boven-Digoel, in which she chronicled several stories about colonial l...
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’03 February 2025If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. T...
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Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’28 January 2025Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said ...
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Healthcare and the Dutch East India Company: Two centuries of arrogance and challengesHistory 20 January 2025The Dutch East India Company (VOC) took healthcare seriously, albeit mainly for business reasons. Former GP Ton Zwaard’s PhD research reveals that alt...
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Lewis Wade Wins First Book Prize for 'Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France'15 January 2025The inaugural Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize has been awarded to Lewis Wade’s monograph 'Privilege, Economy and State in Old...
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Vicente Fischer de Miranda Rodrigues wins KHMW Brouwer Thesis Prize for History07 January 2025Master's student Vicente Fischer de Miranda Rodrigues is the winner of the KHMW Brewer Thesis Prize for History. He was awarded the prize for his rese...
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Household Slavery: 'An Overlooked Method of Enslaving People'17 December 2024When discussing enslavement, attention often focuses on Africans forcibly shipped to South America. Researcher Timo McGregor's new Veni research sheds...
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Rudi van Maanen receives Cornelis Joppenszoon statuette16 December 2024Emeritus Professor Rudi van Maanen has received the Cornelis Joppenszoon statuette. He was presented with the distinction by Deputy Mayor of Leiden, J...
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The future of Europe is not about Europe22 November 2024More autocracies, less gender equality and growing anti-liberal sentiment. These are just some of the developments Professor Sarah Wolff will highligh...
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‘Polarisation is good. Much better than an uneasy silence’21 November 2024If a young person from a migrant background climbs the social ladder despite internship discrimination, the exclusion often gets worse. It is only whe...
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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days'19 November 2024It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been...
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague04 November 2024Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague f...
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Mehmet Kentel wins the OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize04 November 2024Mehmet Kentel has been named co-winner of the prize, which is given out yearly by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, for his article “Ruin a...