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#CoronaHulp: ‘There's a broad desire to help one another'Coronavirus is generating a great deal of uncertainty throughout the world. Fortunately, there are some bright spots, such as the residents of Italian...
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Paper Salvador Santino Regilme receives "Best Conference Paper Award"Salvador Santino Regilme's paper “One Great Nation Under Trump? Global Human Rights in Distress Amidst American Decline” has received the "Best Confer...
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Sam de Schutter wins the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly PrizeSam de Schutter won the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize 2019 for his article “A Global Approach to Local Problems? How to Write a Longer, Deeper, an...
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Matthew Broad elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical SocietyMatthew Broad, based in History and International Studies, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS).
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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in GuyanaWhen we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the ei...
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Hunting for women in Leiden’s historyThey existed and were important, but for too long they have remained invisible in historiography: women. Ariadne Schmidt, the Magdalena Moons endowed ...
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia AntunesHaving mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Nether...
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How to pursue a career within the European institutionsVisiting the beating heart of European politics, namely, the European Council in Brussels, is a great opportunity for students. I was lucky to be able...
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Garenmarket: woven into the fabric of LeidenFrom cloth to serge and from ‘frame lands’ to a wool factory. Archaeologist and historian Roos van Oosten was pleasantly surprised by what she found o...
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‘Collaboration is essential to scientific breakthroughs’How do we create a healthy, inclusive, digital and sustainable society? And how do we keep it that way? If science is to provide answers to these ques...
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European Union Studies in Brussels: a three stage rocketAfter the successful visit to Brussels of last year, staff of the MA International Relations specialisation European Union Studies, the Communications...
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Experiencing Austria through archival researchFrederique Visser is Research Master student and Student Assistent to the Foundation for Austrian Studies. She writes about her experiences on her res...
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How the Dutch press in the seventeenth century brought distant suffering nearbyOn 27 November 2019, David de Boer defended his PhD dissertation 'Religious Persecution and Transnational Compassion in the Dutch Vernacular Press 165...
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebrationMyths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the...
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How do you tell the story of eighteenth century princesses?Historian Joost Welten has written a book entitled 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' (The forgotten princesses of Thorn). For his book, he analysed t...