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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge12 March 2024Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arab...
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Clay tablets dating back thousands of years moved: ‘From receipts to the oldest literary works’27 February 2024How do you move 3,000 fragile clay tablets that date back thousands of years? This was the challenge faced by staff from the Netherlands Institute for...
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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne15 February 2024Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on fil...
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections26 January 2024How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with rese...
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants23 January 2024The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 April 2024. ...
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Emmy Andriesse's captivating photographs now available in the public domain12 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 Leiden22 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 maps02 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 list27 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 improved26 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 Sovereignty19 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 Suriname29 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 Access06 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 Collections13 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...