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Working from home during corona: Andrew Gawthorpe 20 May 2020
We have been working from home for over 9 weeks. How are the staff members of the Institute for History doing? Andrew Gawthorpe shares his experience ...
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Three new Leiden members of KNAW 30 April 2020
KNAW has elected eighteen new members, including two professors at Leiden University and one who studied and obtained his PhD in Leiden. The New Acade...
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‘At first I thought it was a scam when I got an email from the UN’ 28 April 2020
Karen Smith is a university lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History and she occupies a unique position: she has one foot in t...
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Citizenship, Migration & Global Transformation: an interdisciplinary research project 28 April 2020
A research team of fifteen people – representing domains such as political economy, international relations, law, history and public administration - ...
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What historians can learn from the coronavirus crisis 24 April 2020
No two pandemics are ever the same. The current coronavirus crisis, for instance, is clearly very different from the deadly plague outbreaks in the 14...
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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...