Dirk Alkemade
Training Secretary
- Name
- D.G.A. Alkemade MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8052
- d.g.a.alkemade@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Dirk Alkemade is Training Secretary, Lecturer and External PhD Candidate at the Institute for History.
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Research
In my PhD research project Dutch Democratic Radicalism. Pieter Vreede and Revolutionary Politics in the Netherlands (1780-1801) I will investigate the swift rise of democratic radicalism in the age of revolution. I'm particularly concerned with the Dutch variant of this phenomenon. This project will focus on the political life of Pieter Vreede, a radical Dutch politician whose influence has been acknowledged by both contemporaries and later historians. Vreede played a leading role in the Patriotic Movement in Leiden (c 1770-1787); in the early years of the Batavian Republic (c. 1795-1798) he became the most prominent spokesman for the democratic movement on a national level. The biographical approach enables me to trace the development of radical democratic thought throughout the shifting contexts of the Dutch Revolution, its impact on the first Dutch constitution of 1798 and the political culture of the Dutch Revolution in general.
Training Secretary
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculteitsbureau
- OSZ Studieadvisering
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Nederlandse geschiedenis
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Nederlandse geschiedenis
- Alkemade D. (2024), Schrijverschap als politieke barometer: Pieter Vreede in revolutie en restauratie. In: Aerts R., Brummer C. & Schutte G. (Eds.), Machtswoorden: Over schrijverschap en politiek in Nederland. Amsterdam: Prometheus. 47-64.
- Alkemade D.G.A. (2024), Why was slavery not abolished in 1798?: Humanity and human rights in the Batavian Revolution, BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review = Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 139(3): 47-68.
- Alkemade D.G.A. & Rutjes M. (2024), Afscheid van een radicaal: Pieter Linthorst (1757-1807) en het einde van de Nederlandse revolutionaire politiek, Jaarboek de Achttiende Eeuw 56(2024): 5-23.
- Alkemade D. (2024), Een onzalig plan?, Transparant 35(4): 23.
- Alkemade D.G.A. (2023), Het Vliegend Legertje: De vergeten geschiedenis van de patriotse terreur, Geschiedenis Magazine 1: 42-47.
- Lauret L.B. & Alkemade D.G.A. (2022), Four Founding Fathers on the Road: New Government Design in the United States and the Netherlands, 1776-1815, Revue Francaise D Etudes Americaines 173(4): 78-96.
- Alkemade D.G.A. (2021), Ragebol en Sabel: patriotse burgerbewapening, revolutie en terreur in Holland, 1786-1787, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 134(4): 532-559.
- Schulte Nordholt L.R.C. & Alkemade D.G.A. (2020), Voetnootpraktijken, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 133(1): 77-87.
- Alkemade D.G.A. & Schulte Nordholt L.R.C. (2019), Panel: Inclusiever Voetnoten. Historicidagen: Inclusieve Geschiedenis 22 August 2019 - 24 August 2019. Groningen.