This year four research trainee projects were approved by the faculty to be carried out at the Institute for History this semester.

As a result of the MA-course History of Human Rights, dr. Paul van Trigt and students who participated in the course wrote a series of blogs concernin...

Expats in the Netherlands receive a much warmer reception than other migrants, Leiden University's Aniek Smit has discovered. ‘But municipalities nee...

On 24 May 2018 the workshop 'Power, Silence and the Production of History in Africa' will take place at Leiden University.

On January 25th, artist Jonas Staal will defend his dissertation which explores the development of propaganda art from the 20th to the 21st century.

Nationalism is commonly regarded as posing a challenge to international stability and regional and global order more generally. Arguably, nationalism ...

Diplomatica addresses the broad range of work being done across the social sciences and the humanities that takes diplomacy as its focus of investigat...

An online course to teach our international students their first words in Dutch, American presidents in Leiden and how Neanderthals made the very firs...

On the 13th of December 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo came to Leiden to discuss the long history of the demand for reparations for slavery. In the basement of...

On 8 and 9 May 2018 the Workshop 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-20...

Monika Baár is among the 17 scientists who have been invited to participate in the 6th edition of the European Parliament's MEP-Scientist Pairing Sche...

Max Bader has been awarded a € 300,000 grant by the WOTRO Science for Global Development of NWO for a project about the role of civil society in fight...

A group of confidants including a former student of Meijers managed to avert his deportation to a death camp. In her lecture on 27 November, Clevering...

As always, 5 students take part in the Departmental Teaching Committee History. The five of us want to represent the history students to the best of o...

Brazil is one of the world's largest emerging economies, but more is needed if it is to use this economic power for all parts of Brazilian society. Th...