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• Manuscripts, Archives and Letters outside Leiden

• Leiden University Archives

  Under agreement with the Dutch National Archives (2011), all static archives created by Leiden University are kept as a loan in the University Library. In this way, users can study the history of the university and library in conjunction with other relevant archives, collections and items.

• Manuscripts, Archives and Letters

  The Western manuscript, archival and letter collections consist of books and documents written in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic script.

• Online exhibition Borderlands - Ukraine in historical maps News - 16 May 2022

  The war against Ukraine did not start in February 2022, but in the spring of 2014 when Russia suddenly annexed Crimea and supported separatist militias in the Donbas. Last year, president Putin called for a restored geopolitical and spiritual trinity of Greater Russians, Belarusians and Lesser Russians…

• Post-medieval Manuscripts and Private Archives

  The domain of the post-medieval manuscripts and private archives covers the period from about 1550 to the present. A clear distinction with the medieval manuscripts, however, is difficult to make. There are many undated manuscripts and it is often difficult to date them even within a decade or a quarter…

• Academic Historical Museum

  Address Academic Historical Museum Academy Building Rapenburg 73 2311 GJ Leiden

• Manuscripts, Archives and Letters: further information

  A collection consists of items and parts that have been collected by one or more individuals or institutions not responsible for their formation. An archive has been created by one or more individuals or institutions.

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  Eva Putri PhD Candidate - External affiliation

  Faculty of Science

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  Roos van Oosten Assistant professor / Director of education

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Lennart Bes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Laura Llorente Rodriguez Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Archiving email of leading scholars News - 20 June 2017

  One of the tasks of Leiden University Libraries is to manage academic heritage, including letters and scholarly archives of leading researchers. Much of this material is nowadays created digitally and email is one of the main forms of communication. Hence, the UBL launched a pilot for acquiring and…

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  Amos van Baalen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Web-archiving and digital archives: Chinese communities in the Netherlands and Indonesia News - 26 April 2019

  On May 15th, from 15.15 to 17.00 in the Vossiusroom, Leiden University Libraries will host a program on web-archiving and digital archives of Chinese communities in the Netherlands and Indonesia.

• Oldest parts of Leiden University Archives digitised News - 11 September 2025

  Recently, the oldest parts of the Leiden University Archives have been preserved and digitised thanks to a grant from Metamorfoze. This makes an important source on the history of Leiden University – and academic life in the Northern Netherlands in a broader sense – widely available.

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  Olga Lundysheva PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marijn van Putten Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from UBL News - 8 October 2024

  Last month, the UBL announced that it will deselect an extensive collection of foreign dissertations. We are happy to report now that The Internet Archive will be taking over this collection.

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  Sasha Lubotsky Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Pascale Eskes PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Donation photo archive of Volkskrant Journalist and Photographer Hans Beynon News - 18 July 2017

  Can you still remember the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, or the Dutch royal state visit to Indonesia in 1971? These are only a few of the dramatic events covered by Hans Beynon, whose archive of 7.000 photos was recently donated to the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) by his family.

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  Milco Wansleeben Lecturer

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Ton Koopman Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul Hudson Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Research suggestions

  The research suggestions below may be suitable for a bachelor's or master's thesis or can be used as additional source material in ongoing research.

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  Debora Campos Wanderley Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Niels Schoubben Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tijmen Pronk Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Digitized post-medieval western manuscript and archives collection now available in Digital Collections News - 5 October 2020

  Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has digitized more than a thousand individual manuscripts and several complete archives from the post-medieval western manuscript and archives collection and made them available online through Digital Collections. With this, some of the most important archives and masterpieces…

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  Jos Schaeken Interim Vice-dean / Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and cultural history

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tinde van Andel Professor

  Faculty of Science

• Symposium Rediscovered: new technologies on historical artifacts News - 18 October 2018

  Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to invite you for the symposium Rediscovered: new technologies on historical artifacts on Friday 16 November, from 10.00-18.00. The symposium will be held in the Vossius room of the UBL at Witte Singel 27.

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  Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Guus Kroonen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism News - 3 April 2025

  Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.

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  Hans Mol Professor emeritus by special appointment of Medieval Frisian History

  Faculty of Humanities

• South Asian and Tibetan Special Collections

  The South Asian and Tibetan special collections provide material pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, art and material cultures of the region. The focus lies on Sanskrit, Tibetan, Lepcha, and Buddhism, but the collections also hold rich visual material for educational and academic purposes…

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  Jan Wim Buisman Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

• DOIs for research outputs

  Persistent identifiers, such as the DOI, enable (online) references to work even when the location of the referenced object changes. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is used for objects like publications and data. Using a DOI makes it easy to cite and reference persistently.

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  Casper van Dijk PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Evelien Walhout Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gijsbert Rutten Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alwin Kloekhorst Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery News - 1 July 2024

  Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…

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  Herman Paul Academic director/ Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bareez Majid Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Janet Grijzenhout Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jiang Wu Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities