Research programme
Dutch and Colonial History
The team Dutch and Colonial History at Leiden University researches and teaches the history of the Netherlands and its (former) colonies from around 1550 to the present, with a strong focus on the intersection of political and cultural issues.
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- Lauren Lauret
We share a commitment both to studying long-term developments and to reintegrating the history of the Netherlands with that of its former colonial territories. Many of us have an interest in the use of individual testimonies as sources for the study of issues such as war, justice and social conflict, and in the functioning of both formal and informal networks for the exercise of power and the circulation of knowledge.
In conversation with societal partners, we contribute knowledge and advice on topics such as commemorations and heritage, parliamentary history, the legacies of slavery and colonial warfare, the restitution of looted art, maritime culture, the history of the Binnenhof and the history of the House of Orange.
Related research
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Dutch and Colonial History
- The promise of organization. Political associations, 1820-1890, debate and practice
- “The Binnenhof” a contested court. History, housing and politics in The Hague, 1813-2013
- Political Legitimacy under Debate: Democracy and Authority in the Netherlands in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s
- Covering the Ocean. Newspapers and Information Management in the Atlantic World, 1580-1820
- Preliminary Research into the Colonial and Slavery History of the City of Leiden and Leiden University
- Cultural diplomacy and the Javanese Courts (19th and early 20th century)
- Leiden Heritage Deal: Archival Research for Sustainable Urban Design in Leiden
- Households and Enslavement in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Empire
- Institutional memory in the making of colonial culture: history, experience and ideas in Dutch colonialism in Asia, 1700 – 1870.
- The nation in the city. Urban experience and national agency, Amsterdam 1850-1900
- Chronicling novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands, 1500-1850
- Colonialism Inside Out: Everyday Experience and Plural Practice in Dutch Institutions in Sri Lanka (c. 1700-1800)
- The persistence of civic identities in the Netherlands, 1747-1848
- Scheurrak SO1 in the Maritime-Cultural Landscape
- Dutch Shipping and the Environment, 1621-1939
- Seafarers of the Dutch West India Company
- Revisiting the Invention of Africa, 1590-1720