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Frans Preumayr's nineteenth century virtuosic bassoon repertoire Research project
Frans Preumayr's nineteenth century virtuosic bassoon repertoire - An approach with a fine Grenser & Wiesner bassoon from Dresden: Issues of material and technique

Democracy. Reflections on the Rise of Political Organizations in the Nineteenth Century Research output
This volume challenges the idea that the development of ‘democracy’ is a story of rise and progress at all. It is rather a story of continuous but never completely satisfying attempts of interpreting the rule of the people.

Correspondence and Scholarly Collaboration at the End of the Nineteenth Century Research project
Pieter Jakob Cosijn (1840-1899) was Leiden University’s first Professor of Germanic and AngloSaxon Philology. A recognised expert in the field of Old English grammar and textual criticism, Cosijn corresponded with various prominent philologists and experts in his field, including Julius Zupitza, Arthur…

Re-inventing the Nineteenth-Century Tools of Unprescribed Modifications of Rhythm and Tempo in Performances of Brahms’s Symphonies and Concertos Research project
Are there elements of the lost performance practice of the nineteenth century that we can rediscover and use to shed new light on the performance of Brahms’ music for orchestra today?

East Central Europe Volume I, Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' Research output
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offering the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe.

Repertoire for a Swedish bassoon virtuoso : approaching early nineteenth-century works composed for Frans Preumayr with an original Grenser & Wiesner bassoon Research output
Frans Preumayr's nineteenth century virtuosic bassoon repertoire - An approach with a fine Grenser & Wiesner bassoon from Dresden: Issues of material and technique. What techniques and tools must be developed by period bassoonists in order to successfully approach the performance of Frans Preumayr's…

Pianism in the Long Nineteenth Century News - 28 January 2021
Paper dr. Anna Scott discussed in one-day conference on Pianism in the Long Nineteenth Century, featuring scholarship and interviews from across the globe.

Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism. Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands Research output
The development of literary celebrity by focusing on five famous Dutch authors from the nineteenth century

Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century' News - 1 December 2023
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…

Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization (XIXth-XXIth centuries) Research project
The project re-examines the role of the Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox missionaries in the cultural and social developments of the Middle East and their interactions with the indigenous communities, from the nineteenth century until today. It seeks to discover and retrace such ‘entangled histories’…

New perspectives on English in Scotland Research project
Exploring the language of the lower classes in the nineteenth century

Men with a Mission: Informal Accountability Practices Research project
How did nineteenth century scholars evaluate each other and each other’s work through more or less informal practices of peer review?

These Oppressions won't cease: An Anthology of the Political Thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777–1879 Research output
The Khoesan were the first people in Africa to undergo the full rigours of European colonisation. By the early nineteenth century, they had largely been brought under colonial rule, dispossessed of their land and stock, and forced to work as labourers for farmers of European descent.

The nation in the city. Urban experience and national agency, Amsterdam 1850-1900 (in Dutch) Research project
My research project focuses on the development of a popular national agency in late nineteenth century Amsterdam and the question how ‘ordinary’ citizens imagined ‘the Netherlands’ through the experience and use of their urban surroundings.

Things Change: Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020 Research output
This book is the first systematic analysis of the changes in the use of goods and services by households of Black South Africans since the early nineteenth century.

The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa. The Kat River Settlement, 1829–1856 Research output
This monograph by Robert Ross provides a detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century.

Crime and Migration in an Age of Transformation Research project
The nineteenth century truly was an age of transformation. Throughout Europe processes of industrialization and urbanization, nationalization and centralization, changed the structures of society. It was an age in which the number of people living in urban communities grew substantially.