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Writing history together in the Transvaal 18 October 2021
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and...
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Jeroen Duindam appointed new academic director of the Institute for History 01 October 2021
The Institute for History has a new academic director. Professor of Early Modern History Jeroen Duindam will take on this role from 1 September. ‘You ...
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Call for Papers: Book Diplomacy conference 29 September 2021
On 28 and 29 April 2022 the conference ''Book Diplomacy’ in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' takes place at Leiden University. T...
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery 27 September 2021
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in h...
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Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul 06 September 2021
Most of us know that Venice, Genoa, and Florence were major Mediterranean powers during the Renaissance. But did you know that in terms of trade and s...
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd' 13 August 2021
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 202...
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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’ 12 July 2021
It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the com...
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’ 06 July 2021
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this seco...
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing 28 June 2021
Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After ...
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn 25 June 2021
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a ...
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Digital skills at History 18 June 2021
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an i...
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Historical continuity helped form Dutch and Belgian identities 11 June 2021
Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different appro...
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden 18 May 2021
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell in...
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming' 18 May 2021
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debu...
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NWO grant for four humanities projects 18 May 2021
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has granted four grants to Leiden humanities scholars. They get to spend this money on research on a topic of their c...