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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana 28 February 2020
When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the ei...
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Hunting for women in Leiden’s history 24 February 2020
They existed and were important, but for too long they have remained invisible in historiography: women. Ariadne Schmidt, the Magdalena Moons endowed ...
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia Antunes 20 February 2020
Having mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Nether...
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How to pursue a career within the European institutions 18 February 2020
Visiting the beating heart of European politics, namely, the European Council in Brussels, is a great opportunity for students. I was lucky to be able...
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Garenmarket: woven into the fabric of Leiden 17 February 2020
From cloth to serge and from ‘frame lands’ to a wool factory. Archaeologist and historian Roos van Oosten was pleasantly surprised by what she found o...
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‘Collaboration is essential to scientific breakthroughs’ 13 February 2020
How do we create a healthy, inclusive, digital and sustainable society? And how do we keep it that way? If science is to provide answers to these ques...
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European Union Studies in Brussels: a three stage rocket 10 February 2020
After the successful visit to Brussels of last year, staff of the MA International Relations specialisation European Union Studies, the Communications...
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Experiencing Austria through archival research 30 January 2020
Frederique Visser is Research Master student and Student Assistent to the Foundation for Austrian Studies. She writes about her experiences on her res...
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How the Dutch press in the seventeenth century brought distant suffering nearby 22 January 2020
On 27 November 2019, David de Boer defended his PhD dissertation 'Religious Persecution and Transnational Compassion in the Dutch Vernacular Press 165...
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration 21 January 2020
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the...
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How do you tell the story of eighteenth century princesses? 20 January 2020
Historian Joost Welten has written a book entitled 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' (The forgotten princesses of Thorn). For his book, he analysed t...
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Colonisation and migration in New-America 16 January 2020
Migration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the Ne...
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist views 09 January 2020
The idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrot...
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young Academy 10 December 2019
Historian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Youn...
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Bernhard Rieger receives senior fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich 06 December 2019
Bernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled "Making Soc...