In the media
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history' 14 October 2025A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asi...
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Benoit Pols on European Lawblog: ‘The EU is reluctant to link trade to migration enforcement’ 10 July 2025Why doesn’t the EU use market power to enforce migration readmission? Student Benoit Pols explains on the European Lawblog why trade sanctions remain ...
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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year 19 December 2024Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
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The Washington Post review of Eric Storm’s Nationalism: ‘Grand scale history’ 18 November 2024The Washington Post reviews Nationalism by university lecturer Eric Storm. In this book, Storm explores how nation-states became the dominant politica...
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Miko Flohr in BBC documentary about Pompeii 23 April 2024University lecturer Miko Flohr talks in a new BBC documentary about how people responded to the eruption of 79, and on whether or not they were excava...
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage 18 May 2023UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat...
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All episodes of Breingeheim now available on Spotify 01 February 2023All five episodes of the first season of 'Breingeheim' are now available to listen on Spotify. The first season of the podcastseries is about the soci...
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Rogier Creemers on CNBC about China’s big tech policy 30 January 2023Chinese State-backed entities have taken tiny stakes in parts of two Alibaba subsidiaries that oversee a video platform and web browser. Professor Rog...
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Are the brains of males different from those of females? Psychologists produce a podcast on brain research and mental health 20 December 2022Women are more often diagnosed with depression, whereas ADHD is much more frequently detected in men. And there are other more striking differences. W...
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Podcast on resilience gives a boost to worrying youths 19 December 2022
What if you get excluded? Are apps against fear and stress effective? How do you keep your brain in shape? The first season of the new podcastseries ‘...
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Exhibition Maps: navigation and manipulation 20 October 2022Are maps objective or do they convey hidden messages that you would miss at first glance? A map is always a simplification of reality. Mapmakers reduc...
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana 18 August 2022From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-centur...
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina 19 May 202282 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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New book shows impact of coronavirus on Leiden 06 September 2021Tuesday 7 September sees the release of the book ‘Plots stond het Leidse leven stil’ by Charlotte Boin, a freelance writer from Leiden. This book of i...
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Florian Schneider on BBC News about Chinese nationalists and the Olympics 03 August 2021Chinese athletes must perform this Olympics. Anything less than a gold is being seen as athletes being unpatriotic by furious nationalists online. Flo...