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Emmy Andriesse's captivating photographs now available in the public domain 12 January 2024Hundreds of beautiful and timeless photos by Emmy Andriesse, one of the most important Dutch photographers of the twentieth century, are now freely ac...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ 11 January 2024Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden 22 November 2023Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal...
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Vietnam on Dutch maps 02 November 2023In 2023, it will be fifty years since Vietnam and the Netherlands established diplomatic relations. This will be commemorated in both countries. At th...
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Why you (won’t) vote – A reading list 27 October 2023In November, the Dutch will elect a new parliament. Not all eligible citizens will go out and vote, however. How can this be explained, and how big of...
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Online access to medieval manuscripts improved 26 October 2023Do you frequently search the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) for western medieval manuscripts? Then you must have noticed important cha...
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Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty 19 September 2023Our ever-increasing reliance on software and technologies, out of convenience, necessity or otherwise, binds us to supranational and commercial compan...
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Leiden University Libraries acquires a rare map of Suriname 29 August 2023Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has acquired a rare manuscript map of Suriname. The map from 1830 is almost 2.5 meters long and is highly detailed. ...
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access 06 July 2023Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and o...
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections 13 June 2023Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collecti...
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Announcement of Scaliger Institute Research Fellowship Winners (1st round) 12 June 2023With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fello...
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New DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship for Indonesian Special Collections 12 June 2023Every year, the DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship programme offers three senior (postdoc) researchers affiliated with a state or private university in Indonesia...
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Now available: Open Science: A Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers 09 June 2023This practical guide is aimed at PhD candidates, Research Master Students, and early-career researchers from all academic disciplines. The instruction...
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Donation of personal archive and collection of Leiden Sinologist Robert van Gulik 25 May 2023The family of the famous diplomat, sinologist and writer Robert van Gulik has donated his personal archive and part of his collection to Leiden Univer...
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies 23 May 2023The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean ...