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Sigrid Kaag avant la lettre: Women played a significant role in eighteenth-century diplomacy 07 March 2024
With her Veni research, investigator Rosanne Baars from the Institute of History aims to demonstrate that women played a role in the eighteenth-centur...
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible' 27 February 2024
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around ...
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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers 08 January 2024
What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture on 12 January, Professor Mariken Teeuwen talked about the texts they...
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Dancing around the throne: networking in the time of King William I 26 June 2023
Showing your face at dinners and parties at court: it was the way to get noticed by the king in William I's time. Joost Welten's latest book reveals h...
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672 31 October 2022
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350...
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from? 28 June 2022
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a g...
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Call for Papers - Monarchy in turmoil: princes, courts, and politics in revolution and restoration 1780-1830 13 April 2021
For every period, it is a challenge to unearth the details of political trafficking; yet the effort needs to include all relevant persons, groups, and...
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The enemy is brutal and violent. How do you put a human face on them? 13 July 2020
Raymond Fagel, university lecturer in General History, wrote a book about his research on Spanish commander Mondragón. He spared Zierikzee during the ...
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How the Dutch press in the seventeenth century brought distant suffering nearby 22 January 2020
On 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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How do you tell the story of eighteenth century princesses? 20 January 2020
Historian Joost Welten has written a book entitled 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' (The forgotten princesses of Thorn). For his book, he analysed t...
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Historian Jeroen Duindam receives Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences first class 17 June 2019
On June 14th, Jeroen Duindam, Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities, was awarded an exceptionally high distinction for his achievements in...
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Habsburg family pulled strings to bring raiders of English North Cape expedition to justice 24 May 2019
Richard Chancellor, the English Willem Barentsz, discovered the North Cape during the first English expedition to attempt to find a northeast passage....
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Monitoring Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border in the Eighteenth Century 20 March 2019
How old is the phenomenon of states attempting to control migrations on external borders? What were the motives and outcomes of these policies? In his...
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Call for Papers - Conflict Management in the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 1200-1600: Actors, Institutions and Practices of Dispute Settlement 06 November 2018
From the late Middle Ages onwards, maritime conflict has developed hand in hand with international trade. Over time, specific institutions were establ...
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National Museum of Antiquities: 200-year partnership with Leiden University 30 April 2018
From Caspar Reuvens to the royal grave in Oss, and from ancient images in the Hortus to a table from Naturalis. The National Museum of Antiquities is ...