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Critical of the risks: research into the experiences of military observers 20 September 2022
For his PhD, historian and army major Dion Landstra researched the effectiveness of observers in peace operations in the Balkans between 1991 and 1995...
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Why is it now that the Left has momentum in Latin America (and how long it will last) 05 September 2022
The left is gaining more and more ground on the political map of Latin America, with the elections in Colombia as the most recent example. But what’s ...
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Lauren Lauret receives D.J. Veegens Prize 2022 30 June 2022
University lecturer Lauren Lauret has been awarded the D.J. Veegens Prize 2022 for her dissertation on the meeting practices of the States General dur...
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Lecture and roundtable discussion with Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski 22 April 2022
On 21 April 2022, Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski visited Leiden. The theme of his visit was the role of law and historiography in shaping collecti...
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The link between The Hague bonfires and different types of citizenship 27 December 2021
For the third year in a row, the bonfires in the Duindorp and Scheveningen neighbourhoods in The Hague during New Year's Eve have been cancelled. Acco...
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Decolonising the history of Africa was a difficult process 23 November 2021
With the aid of the General History of Africa (GHA) series of books, PhD candidate Larissa Schulte Nordholt researched what it meant to decolonise the...
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia 09 November 2021
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly supp...
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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’ 12 July 2021
It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the com...
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn 25 June 2021
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a ...
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden 18 May 2021
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell in...
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming' 18 May 2021
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debu...
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NIAS fellowship for Mike Schmidli 17 May 2021
Mike Schmidli has been awarded a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). From September 2021, he will spend 5 months at NIA...
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How to say goodbye to politics? 15 March 2021
New ministers, new state secretaries and new members of parliament. Around the time of the elections, we often talk about the new faces, but there are...
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Honorable Mention for PhD Candidate Sam de Schutter 30 June 2020
Sam de Schutter (Phd Candidate at the Institute for History) received an Honorable Mention by the Disability History Association.
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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...