Nadine Akkerman
Professor Early Modern Literature & Culture
- Name
- Prof.dr. N.N.W. Akkerman
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- +31 71 527 2065
- n.n.w.akkerman@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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Nadine Akkerman, FRHistS, MAE is a Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture at the Centre for the Arts in Society.
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Recent and on-going research
As PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant FEATHERS (2020-2025) I lead a large-scale project on early modern manuscript culture and the mediation of authorship. The project members are Lotte Fikkers, Clodagh Murphy, Jonas Hock, and Holly Riach. To distinguish between authorial and scribal voices the project analyses 3 distinct manuscript types: Historical letters, Legal documents, and Literary works. In doing so it addresses 3 questions: who were these scribes; what was their role or function, and where did their influence end and their employer’s begin?
Another ongoing project is the editing of the complete correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), Queen of Bohemia, published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in three volumes, of which my prize-winning PhD (2008) serves as the groundwork:
- Vol. I: 1603-1631 (publ. 20 Aug. 2015)
- Vol. II: 1632-1642 (publ. 25 Aug. 2011)
- Vol. III: 1643-1662 (forthcoming)
I have published extensively on women’s history, diplomacy, and masques - one of my books being the critically acclaimed Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Oxford: OUP, 2018) - and am part of the team behind ‘Signed, Sealed, & Undelivered’, an international project split between Leiden, Groningen, Massachusetts, Oxford, and London, which created waves by virtually unfolding a 17th-century letter.
Other publications include The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2013), edited with Birgit Houben, the first collection that seeks to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of early modern court studies, and Courtly Rivals: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) and Amalia von Solms (1602-1675) in The Hague, which appeared on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at the Historical Museum in The Hague ('Het Haags Historisch Museum') held between 24 October 2014 and 15 March 2015.
My latest book is the biography Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (OUP, 2021).
Prizes
My research activities have been supported, among others, by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, NWO, and the British Academy. Recently, in 2021, I was awarded the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize for my work. In April 2018, I was awarded the Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research in the humanities. In November 2017, I received the World Cultural Council Special Recognition Award. In 2009 I was awarded the Studieprijs Stichting Praemium Erasmianum, a national award, for the completion of an extraordinary PhD in the field of humanities, social sciences or behavioral sciences.
Dissemination of Research
I have given presentations at several literary festivals, including the Hay Festival, Edinburgh Spy Week and Althorp, and also at institutions including Google UK and Lincoln’s Inn. I have been historical advisor to several exhibitions. With Jana Dambrogio, the Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator of MIT Libraries, I am the co-director of a growing number of videos on letters, espionage and materiality: click here for Courtly Rivals or Spies and Secrets on Vimeo (also available on YouTube). Follow me on Twitter @misswalsingham.
I am represented by Johnson & Alcock.
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I studied English Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam from 1996 to 2001. In November 2008 I was awarded my PhD in English Literature ‘cum laude’ (with distinction) for a dissertation entitled, “The Letters of A Stuart Princess: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine of the Rhine, and Queen of Bohemia”. My dissertation includes a census of all the letters, either to or by the Queen of Bohemia, many of which are dispersed in archives across the world and which were before my edition mostly unpublished. I have been lecturing at Leiden since 2007. I was elected as member of The Young Academy (KNAW) in 2017.
1 October 2022 - 30 September 2023
Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford
1 September 2018 – 30 June 2019
Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford
21 July 2017 (ongoing)
NWO Aspasia
1 May 2017 – 1 November 2018
co-applicant, with Helmer Helmers, of an NWO Archaeological Discoveries of (Inter)national Importance Grant
1 September 2016 – 24 March 2021
main applicant of the NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities Grant
1 January 2016 – 25 March 2017
main applicant of the NWO Added Value in Humanties Grant
1 September 2015 – 30 June 2016
Fellow at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
1 March 2011 - 1 March 2015
NWO VENI research fellow at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
27 May 2014 – 4 July 2014
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham
1 February 2010 - 28 February 2011
NWO RUBICON research fellow at Leiden University's Institute for History
Since 1 May 2017
Senior Lecturer / Reader in early modern English Literature, Leiden University
1 September 2007 - 30 April 2017
Lecturer, Leiden University
1 August 2006 – 1 August 2007
Junior lecturer Radboud University Nijmegen
1 September 2002 – 9 December 2006
PhD student / Junior lecturer Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Teaching activities
From September 2021 I will be teaching the MA courses ‘Circulating Sex: Authorship & Textual Production in Early Modern England’ and the ‘LUCAS Writing Seminar’.
Professor Early Modern Literature & Culture
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Oude Britse letterkunde
- Akkerman N. & Langman P. (2023), Accidentally on purpose: denying any responsibility for the accidental archive. In: Prescott A. & Wiggins A. (Eds.), Archives: power, truth, and fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 323-326.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2023), Russell, Lucy, Countess of Bedford. In: Luckyi C. (Ed.), Palgrave encyclopedia of early modern women's writing. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-5.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2023), Een omstreden plezierreisje. In: Anrooij W. van & Hoftijzer P. (Eds.), Tot publijcque dienst der studie: boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana. Hilversum: Verloren. 208-209.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Rowe C. 23 March 2023, Episode 207, Jane Whorwood: royalist spy. English Heritage Podcast. English Heritage [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2023) This flammable isle. Review of: Healey J. (2023), The blazing world: a new history of revolutionary England: Bloomsbury. History Today 73(3): 96-97.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2022), Women’s letters and cryptological coteries. In: Scott-Baumann E., Clarke D. & Ross S.C.E. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of early modern women’s writing in English, 1540-1700. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 547-561.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Larson R. 13 December 2022, Daughter of James VI/I: Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts. Tydor Dynasty [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2022), Women and Spy Networks. In: Elk M. van (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2022), The Other Elizabeth, History Today 72(9): 54-63.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Yeoman L. 23 April 2022, Assassination and Murder: Trail ahead at 21.31 to the next episode, on Elizabeth Stuart. Time Travels. BBC Radio Scotland [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (3 April 2022), Elizabeth Stuart 1596-1662: Veel meer dan 'de Winterkoningin'. Interviewed by Netten D. van for Geschiedenis Magazine: 53-56. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Moller V. 11 March 2022, Interview with Nadine Akkerman on Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts. Travels Through Time. Unseen Histories [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Lipscomb S. (10 March 2022), The Queen of Hearts: The Forgotten Stuart Queen. Not Just the Tudors [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2022), De atomen van Margaret Cavendish: Margaret Cavendish aan Constantijn Huygens, 27 oktober 1658. In: Huysman I. & Leerintveld A. (Eds.), Constantijn Huygens: een leven in brieven. Soest: Catullus. 216-223.
- Akkerman N.N.W., Duijn M. van, Huysman I. & Ramackers S. (7 February 2022), Brieven: Van kluis naar kussen Interviewed by Garrelt Verhoeven [interview].
- Daybell J., Norrhem S., Broomhall S., Van Gent J. & Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves, Sixteenth Century Journal 52(3): 571-606.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Davies R. 20 December 2021, The Stuart Princess Who Could Have Deposed Charles I. History Extra Podcast [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (19 December 2021), Queen of Hearts: Nadine Akkerman Interview. Interviewed by Veerapen Steven. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (9 December 2021), Elizabeth Stuart was een hartenkoningin die altijd oorlog wilde. Interviewed by Bongers Vincent for Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare, Wetenschap. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (8 December 2021), A New Biography of Elizabeth Brings the Winter Queen in from the Cold. Interviewed by Darroch Gordon. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2 December 2021), Online Boekensalon met Nadine Akkerman: Elizabeth Stuart. Interviewed by Verhoeven Garrelt for Online Boekensalon Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (Youtube). [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (25 November 2021), Nadine Akkerman: 'Women's Letters Have Been Ignored for a Long Time'. Interviewed by Steinmark Emilie. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), The Art of Treason, BBC History Magazine 22(13): 62-67.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (14 May 2021), Cracking the Code of Letterlocking. Interviewed by Abigail Cain. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Lipscomb S. 13 May 2021, 17th Century Female Spies. Not Just the Tudors. History Net [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), Q&A, A Selection of Historical Conundrums Answered by Experts: 'How Did People in Hiding Communicate with Confidants before Modern Means of Communication?', BBC History Magazine March: 66.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (8 March 2021), Hoe deze opgeopende brief uit 1697 eindelijk werd ontcijferd. Interviewed by Eric Brassem. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (3 March 2021), Scientists have virtually unfolded a 17th-century locked letter for the first time. Interviewed by Chris Howden for As It Happens (CBC). [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2 March 2021), Ongeopende zeventiende-eeuwse brief toch gelezen met een röntgenapparaat en algoritme. Interviewed by Funnekotter B. for NRC Handelsblad. [interview].
- Dambrogio J., Ghassaei A., Starza Smith D., Jackson H., Demaine M.L., Davis G., Mills D., Ahrendt R., Akkerman N.N.W., Linden D. van der & Demaine E.D. (2021), Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography, Nature Communications 12: 1184.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), Elisabeth of Bohemia’s Aristocratic Upbringing and Education at the Prinsenhof, Rapenburg 4-10, Leiden, c. 1627/8-32. In: Ebbersmeyer S. & Hutton S. (Eds.), Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680): A Philosopher in her Historical Context . Cham: Springer. 17-31.
- Akkerman N.N.W., Vlotho: A Bridge Too Far: Aspects of History. [blog entry].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (23 December 2020), Spies in the Pantry: Dr Nadine Akkerman Uncovers the Vital Role of Women in Early Modern Espionage. Interviewed by Jessica Leggett for All About History: 46-49. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (17 December 2020), Vrouwelijke Spionnen. Interviewed by Jessica van Zadelhof. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (30 October 2020), Detective in het archief. Interviewed by Anika van de Wijngaard. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (8 October 2020), Waar zijn de vrouwen in de geschiedenis?. Interviewed by Rob van Hattum for Grote Vragen (VPRO/NPO1). [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. 8 October 2019, Spies 2: Interview with Dr Nadine Akkerman. Histories of the Unexpected [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2019), Superspionne Lady Carlisle, Geschiedenis Magazine 54(7): 60-65.
- Akkerman N.N.W. 1 January 2019, Aphra Behn and female espionage. H.History: Not what you thought you knew [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2019), Elizabeth Stuart Queen of Bohemia, Oxford Bibliographies Online : .
- Ahrendt R., Akkerman N.N.W., Dambrogio J., Starza Smith D. & Linden D. van der (2019), The letter as object. In: Hotson H. & Wallnig T. (Eds.), Reassembling the republic of letters in the digital age: standards, systems, scholarship. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press. 63-67.
- Akkerman N.N.W. 23 August 2018, Female Spies of the Civil War Era. History Extra Podcast [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2018), Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. 4 July 2018, ScienceGuide Podcast met Nadine Akkerman over vrouwelijke spionnen. ScienceGuide [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2018), Review of: Elk M. van (2017), Early Modern Women’s Writing: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic. Early Modern Literature in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Renaissance Quarterly 71(2): 779-780.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2017), Brienne collection [Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO)]. Oxford: Early Modern Letters Online. [dataset].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2017), Informal Diplomacy: The Correspondences of Ambassadors' Wives and Women Spies [ERC Tide, University of Liverpool, UK, November 2017]. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2017), Missreading Women, Misleading Women: How One Letter Changes Everything [University of St Andrews, Scotland, April 2017]. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2017), The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia [Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO)] 1 & 2. Oxford: Early Modern Letters Online. [dataset].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (8 November 2016), Treasures of the British Library. Interviewed by Akkerman N.N.W. (SkyArts). [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), Enigmatic Cultures of Cryptology. In: Daybell J. & Gordon A. (Eds.), Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain. Material Texts Series University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 69-84 (notes at pp.266-271).
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), April 2016, invited paper, ‘The Research Potential of a Postmaster’s Chest: An Introduction to ‘Signed, Sealed & Undelivered’, AHRC Network Conference: ‘Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800’, Plymouth University, UK. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), April 2016, with the 4 other steering committee members of the AHRC network, ‘Gloved: The Gendered Power of Materiality in Early Modern English Handwear’, AHRC Network Conference: Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800, Plymouth University. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), Beter dan 007. for Opzij. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), King's Blog: Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. [film].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), September 2016, invited paper, ‘British she-intelligencers, 1647-1667,’ international conference ‘Beyond Ambassadors: Missionaries, Consuls & Spies in Premodern Diplomacy’, Leiden University, Leiden. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), Signed, Sealed, Undelivered. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (11 November 2015), Ten things you never knew about Elizabeth Stuart, 'the Winter Queen'. OUP blog: Oxford University Press's Academic Insights for the Thinking World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [blog entry].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), 17th-century tales of love, loss and delinquent husbands. for BBC History Magazine: 11-12. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Aanjaagster van de hofcultuur in Den Haag: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), Geschiedenis Magazine (1): 32-35.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), A Triptych of Dorothy Percy Sidney (1598-1659), Countess of Leicester, Lucy Percy Hay (1599-1660), Countess of Carlisle, and Dorothy Sidney Spencer (1617-1684), Countess of Sunderland. In: Hannay M.P., Brennan M.G. & Lamb M.E. (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 (Volume I: Lives). Farnham, UK, Burlington, USA: Ashgate. 133-150.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Briefgeheimen uit de 17e eeuw. NWO. for Hypothese, Talent. [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Cleveringa lecture ‘Informele macht van vrouwen in de Republiek verborgen in 17e-eeuwse brieven’, Universiteit Leiden. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Invited paper, ‘The Scottish-Scandinavian Circle of Elizabeth of Bohemia’, international workshop, Drumminor Castle, Scotland. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Keynote, one-day international colloquium / workshop, ‘Clandestine Communications in Early Modern England’, Queen Mary University of London. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Paper, ‘Pawnbrokers, Jewellers, and Blood Diamonds: How Elizabeth Stuart and Henrietta Maria Financed Exile and Wars’; invited participant to the panel Material Readings in Early Modern Culture, sponsored by the History of the Book, RSA Discipline Group, Renaissance Society of America, Berlin. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Paper, ‘The Private Ciphered Letter Books of a Spy,’ a two-day international colloquium, ‘A Collector of Secrets: Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592-1663) in cultural diplomacy and the arts Gerbier’, V&A, London. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia: Volume I 1603-1631. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), Courtly Rivals in The Hague: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) & Amalia von Solms (1602-1675)) [Also available in Dutch: Rivalen aan het Haagse hof: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) & Amalia von Solms (1602-1675) (translation: Sandra Arts-Binnendijk)]. Venlo: VanSpijk / Rekafa Publishers in conjunction with Haags Historisch Museum.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014) Review of The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War by Tryntje Helfferich. Review of: Helfferich Tryntje (2013), The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Journal of Military History 78(2): 11-12.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), June 2014, keynote, ‘Ambassadors’ Wives and Honourable Spies: The Hidden Aspects of Diplomacy, a Concluding Talk’, one-day international colloquium, ‘The Cultural Production of Early Modern Households’, the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), June 2014, keynote, a public discussion with Professor Lisa Jardine on ‘Challenges for Early Modern Women’s History’, the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), June 2014, seminar, ‘Elizabeth Stuart and English Theatre,’ graduate school, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), March 2014, paper, ‘Informal Diplomacy: Women’s Letters of Friendship and Intimacy’; invited participant to the panel Diplomacies and Early Modern Correspondence, sponsored by the History of the Book, RSA Discipline Group, Renaissance Society of America, New York. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), November 2014, invited paper, ‘De juwelen van Elizabeth Stuart. Uiterlijk Vertoon?’ Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), October 2014, lecture to opening exhibition, ‘Courtly Rivals in The Hague: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) & Amalia von Solms (1602-1675)’ Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), August 2013, invited paper, ‘The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia,’ and invited participant of Workshop ‘Women Early Modern Letters Online’, International conference, ‘Gender and Political Culture, 1400-1800’, A Joint Conference organised by History and the Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts (HuMPA) at Plymouth University and Umeå Group for Pre-modern Studies, Plymouth University. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), Introduction. In: Akkerman N.N.W. & Houben B. (Eds.), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe. Rulers & Elites no. 4. Leiden & Boston: Brill. 1-27.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), June 2013, keynote, ‘The Winter Queen,’ ‘Winter Queen celebrations, the 400-year anniversary of the Palatine wedding’, organised by the Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft Rhein Neckar, Heidelberg, Germany. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), Semper Eadem: Elizabeth Stuart and the Legacy of Queen Elizabeth I. In: Smart S. & Wade M.R. (Eds.), The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival. Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung no. 29. Wiesbaden: Herzog August Bibliothek. 145-168.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), The goddess of the household: the masquing politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford. In: Akkerman N.N.W. & Houben B. (Eds.), The politics of female households: ladies-in-waiting across early modern Europe. Rulers & Elites no. 4. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 287-309.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Houben B. (Eds.) (2013), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe. Rulers & Elites no. 4. Leiden & Boston: Brill.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2012), Interviewee for 'Perspectives on the World', Leiden University, 'Boxes and boxes of an early modern stateswoman's letters', 4-7. Interviewed by . [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2012), January 2012, keynote / invited guest lecture, ‘Elizabeth of Bohemia’, Director’s Seminar, CELL, Queen Mary, University of London. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2012), May 2012, keynote / invited guest lecture, ‘Opening up the Winter Queen’s Cabinet: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia’, Cultures of Knowledge, History Faculty Oxford. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2012), September 2012, invited paper, ‘Vrouwelijke spionnen in de zeventiende eeuw’. NISA, Marinecompex, Kattenburgerstraat, Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2012), September 2012, paper, ‘Hofdames als Lobbyisten’, annual conference of the Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis ‘Lobby in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden’, Paleis der Academiën, Brussels. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011) Review. Review of: Jenkinson Matthew (2010), Culture and Politics at the Court of Charles II, 1660-1685. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History no. 9. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. Royal Stuart Journal 3: 33-34.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Huysman I. (2011), Een zeventiende-eeuwse catfight: de geloofsovergang van Louise Hollandina van de Palts als inzet bij de aanspraken op het Markiezaat van Bergen op Zoom (1657-1659), De Waterschans 41(2): 63-72.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011), References to "Luminalia" from the Correspondence of Sir Thomas Roe and Elizabeth Stuart, Malone Society Reprints 16(175): 65-78.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011), The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Volume II 1632 - 1642. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011), 'The Postmistress, The Diplomat, and a Black Chamber? Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control'. In: Adams Robyn & Cox Rosanna (Eds.), Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 172-188.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011) Zoeken naar vroegmoderne levens: tussen parochieboeken, rekeningen, citatenverzamelingen en bakpapier. Review of: Smyth Adam (2010), Autobiography in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS 1: 128-129.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (1 August 2010), 'Cardenio: Op Zoek naar de Verloren Shakespeare: Alleen de Dwaas heeft de Waarheid in Pacht'. Theater aan het Spui Magazine: 26-27.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2010), Cupido en de eerste koningin in Den Haag: Constantijn Huygens en Elizabeth Stuart. In: Kloek Els, Blom Frans & Leerintveld Ad (Eds.), Vrouwen rondom Huygens. Hilversum: Verloren. 73-96.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2010) 'Dwaze Correspondentie'. Review of: Huysman Ineke & Rasch Rudolf (2009), Béatrix en Constantijn: De Briefwisseling tussen Béatrix de Cusance en Constantijn Huygens, 1652-1655. Amsterdam/Den Haag: Boom/ING. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS 2: 288-289.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2010), Lucas, Margaret, Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon Nederland : .
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Corporaal M.C.M. (2010), Margaret Cavendish, Constantijn Huygens en de Bataafse tranen. In: Kloek Els, Blom Frans & Leerintveld Ad (Eds.), Vrouwen rondom Huygens. Hilversum: Verloren. 224-239.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2009), Brieven Schrijven is Politiek Bedrijven: De Correspondentie van Elizabeth Stuart, Koningin van Bohemen, Historica: Vrouwengeschiedenisblad 31(2): 16-18.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2009), Cupido en de eerste koningin in Den Haag: Constantijn Huygens en Elizabeth Stuart, De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in Interdisciplinair Perspectief 25(2): 73-96.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Corporaal M.C.M. (2009), Mad Science Beyond Flattery: The Correspondence of Margaret Cavendish and Constantijn Huygens. In: Mendelson S.H. (Ed.), Margaret Cavendish. Farnham, England & Burlington, USA: Ashgate. 263-304.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Corporaal M.C.M. (2009), Margaret Cavendish, Constantijn Huygens en de Betaafse tranen, De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in Interdisciplinair Perspectief 25(2): 224-239.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2007), “Reader Stand Still and Look, Lo Here I am”: Elizabeth Cary’s forgotten funeral elegy “On the Duke of Buckingham”. In: Wolfe H. (Ed.), The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 183-200.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2006) Review: Reading Early Modern Women, eds Helen Ostovich & Elizabeth Sauer. Review of: Ostovich H. & Sauer E. (2004), Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscripts and Print, 1550-1700 no. 5. London & New York: Routledge. English Studies 87: 625-627.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Sellin P.R. (2005), A Stuart Masque in Holland: Ballet de la Carmesse de La Haye (1655): Part II, The Ben Jonson Journal 12: 141-164.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2004), Elizabeth Stuart, Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon Nederland : .
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Sellin P.R. (2004), "Facsimile Edition – A Stuart Masque in Holland: Ballet de la Carmesse de La Haye (1655)", The Ben Jonson Journal 11: 207-258.
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