Honorata Mazepus works at the research group Political Legitimacy since september 1st 2011 and studies Russia within that group.

Historians have long known that Catholics played a significant role in the Revolt of the Netherlands (1520-1635). But what did the Revolt mean to indi...

How do you integrate minorities into a society, and what kind of influence does this have on the collective identity? These questions may seem modern,...

In the late colonial Netherlands Indies, starting from 1892, homes were set up for the re-education of children. At first by private individuals, late...

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the city of Batavia was supplied with produce by its hinterland, known as the Ommelanden. Bondan Kanumoyoso st...

Håvar Solheim started his PhD at the Institute for History and the Centre for Study and Documentation of Latin-America, Amsterdam (CEDLA) April 1st 2011.

‘In recent publications about the slave trade the same rhetorical weapons are used as two centuries ago in the battle for the abolition of the British...

Cambridge History of South Africa, volume 1: From early times to 1885 (edited by Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga, and Robert Ross) made Choice mag...

Carolyn Nakamura works as a postdoctoral researcher on the profile area Global Interactions.

In Augustus 2012 Kim Beerden will join the staff of the Institute for History as lecturer in Ancient History.

Every month a member of the Institute for History tells about a book that inspired him or her. Afterwards, the pen is passed on to another colleague. ...

From 15 augustus 2014 onward, Leonor Álvarez Francés is appointed as PhD student on Raymond Fagels NWO project ‘Facing the Enemy. The Spanish Army Com...