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What crime reporting can teach us about women’s history 23 April 2020
How can you learn about women’s history if they are under-represented in historical sources? Look at news coverage of crime, says Clare Wilkinson, PhD...
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#CoronaHulp: ‘There's a broad desire to help one another' 17 March 2020
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" 09 March 2020
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 Prize 02 March 2020
Sam 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 Society 28 February 2020
Matthew 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 Guyana 28 February 2020
When 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 history 24 February 2020
They 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 Antunes 20 February 2020
Having 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 institutions 18 February 2020
Visiting 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 Leiden 17 February 2020
From 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’ 13 February 2020
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 rocket 10 February 2020
After 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 research 30 January 2020
Frederique 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 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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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration 21 January 2020
Myths 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...