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In early modern England, children were sold to the highest bidder: 'This was presented as a care system'27 January 2026Children who lost their fathers in early modern England ran the risk of being sold to the highest bidder. Although Shakespeare wrote about it in his p...
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Designing and building a sound sculpture with 3D printed parts01 December 2025In the Digital Humanities Lab, students and staff can make use of various technical facilities. PhD student Caeso tells us more about his experiences ...
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'Research 06 November 2025
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases i...
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargonPhD 23 October 2025Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ a...
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New DH-AI Minor students tour the Humanities Hub12 September 2025Future proofing student skills with a new cohort of Digital Humanities & AI students.
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Sjef Barbiers moves to INT: ‘Especially in times of AI, we need to keep Dutch relevant’19 May 2025Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Langu...
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Lettie Dorst: ‘Translation programmes change how we interpret the world’27 March 2025Associate Professor Lettie Dorst has received a Vidi grant to research how machine translation programmes such as Google Translate and ChatGPT transla...
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Sharing Digital Humanities Knowledge07 February 2025If you missed the annual LUCDH Winter School Week of Digital Humanities workshops and Pilot Project Symposium (27 – 31 January 2025) this time around,...
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Humanities Hub opens: new digital facilities for researchers and students05 December 2024The new Humanities Hub in the Huizinga Building was officially opened on Tuesday 3 December. In the different labs, researchers presented the options ...
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Humanities Hub: A Hotbed of Innovation21 November 2024In two weeks' time, the official opening of the Humanities Hub will take place in the Huizinga Building. The first projects have already begun. Profes...
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Anne-Isabelle Richard: ‘Equal cooperation is particularly important in this field’14 October 2024
Assistant professor Anne-Isabelle Richard has received no fewer than three different grants for research and teaching on relations between Europe and ...
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Ready for the digital future: The Humanities Hub08 July 2024The future is digital. That is why the new Humanities Hub for Digital Research Skills, and Media (in short: Humanities Hub) will soon open its doors i...
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How AI helps map sign languages15 April 2024Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and ann...
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Angus Mol, new LUCDH director: 'We want to be a point of contact'15 April 2024Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) has had a new director since 1 February. Associate Professor Angus Mol wants to connect people...
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Liselore Tissen appointed ambassador for network of congress ambassadors08 March 2024External PhD candidate Liselore Tissen has been appointed ambassador for Leiden City of Science. As the youngest member and the only non-professor in ...