The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected five Leiden professors from different disciplines as new members. Two of the new member...

On May 25th, Prof. Damian Pargas will hold his inaugural lecture "Promised Lands".

Ariadne Schmidt will be appointed professor by special appointment of the Magdalena Moons chair at Leiden University. From 1 September 2018 she will ...

Thanks to fanatical lobbying various groups of citizens and traders had a lot of influence on the initial success of the Dutch colony in Brazil. This ...

A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Lei...

Leidens's Classics and History rank 6th and 15th place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. Every year, QS ranks universities all over the ...

This year four research trainee projects were approved by the faculty to be carried out at the Institute for History this semester.

As a result of the MA-course History of Human Rights, dr. Paul van Trigt and students who participated in the course wrote a series of blogs concernin...

Bernhard Rieger recently joined the Institute for History as our new Professor of European History. He introduces himself.

Mike Schmidli recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in American History. He introduces himself.

Expats in the Netherlands receive a much warmer reception than other migrants, Leiden University's Aniek Smit has discovered. ‘But municipalities nee...

On 24 May 2018 the workshop 'Power, Silence and the Production of History in Africa' will take place at Leiden University.

On January 25th, artist Jonas Staal will defend his dissertation which explores the development of propaganda art from the 20th to the 21st century.

Nationalism is commonly regarded as posing a challenge to international stability and regional and global order more generally. Arguably, nationalism ...

Diplomatica addresses the broad range of work being done across the social sciences and the humanities that takes diplomacy as its focus of investigat...