1,025 search results for “archives in historical research” in the Student website
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Archaeology in the Dealer’s Archive
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Historical pragmatics and letter-writing practices
Conference, Workshop
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Adolescence: Sexual Becoming in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
On 24 and 25 April 2025, the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam — home to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) — hosted an interdisciplinary workshop organized by dr. Rafal Matuszewski, an ancient historian at the Institute for History in Leiden.
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Matuszewski awarded grant for workshop on adolescence and sexual maturity in historical and cross-cultural perspectives
When are you (sexually) mature? A KNAW grant will enable associate professor Rafal Matuszewski to organise an interdisciplinary workshop on this question.
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A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Eva PutriFaculty of Science
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Roos van OostenFaculty of Archaeology
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Lennart BesFaculty of Humanities
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Laura Llorente RodriguezFaculty of Archaeology
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Amos van BaalenFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague
Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague from 1600 to 1800. They are tracing crimes and offenders and shedding new light on The Hague’s Gevangenpoort (or Prison Gate). Among their many discoveries…
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Oldest parts of Leiden University Archives digitised
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 LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
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Marijn van PuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
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Pascale EskesFaculty of Humanities
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A guide to the academic archive
When you think of a library, you probably picture books – or students quietly studying. But for subject librarian Rutger de Jong, most of the work happens online. ‘We never throw anything away. Everything produced here in the name of science should remain findable.’
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Student cleans up archival data and uncovers two stellar cocoons
While investigating 16 years of images of young stars from a retired astronomical camera, Leiden master's student Sam de Regt discovered that two of those stars were still enveloped in birth clouds. Never before has anyone captured these two stars in so much detail. He publishes his data-cleaning method…
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Milco WansleebenFaculty of Archaeology
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Ton KoopmanFaculty of Humanities
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Paul HudsonFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
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Toward an AI Attuned to Dissent and Consensus in Historical Events: Evidence from Wikipedia
Lecture
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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Tijmen PronkFaculty of Humanities
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Archival Photo Negative Collection: A Glimpse into the Past, Holding the Mirror to the Present
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Archaeology which naturally leads to questions about its past. Part of the answer might be hidden in the archival photo negatives that paint a lively portrait of archaeological research taking place more than half a century ago.
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like?
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archives. 'It can be a boost to your identity to know the history of your language.'
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Tinde van AndelFaculty of Science
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Pais" interviews’ collection officially handed over to Rotterdam City Archive
A collection of interviews from the oral history project "Storia de Nhas Pais" ("Story of my Parents") was handed over to the Rotterdam City Archive on 26 November 2021.
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty of Humanities
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
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Guus KroonenFaculty of Humanities
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
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LUF grants for historical hormone research and safe, inclusive cities
Why did fewer women suffer from osteoporosis in the past than today? And which aspects of a city make public spaces safe, accessible and comfortable for all residents? These two research questions will be explored in more detail thanks to an Impulse Grant from the Leiden University Fund.
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Faculty of Humanities joined forces with vocational college (MBO) students to build a database. ‘We’re so compatible with each other.’
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Casper van DijkFaculty of Humanities
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery
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 PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Jiang WuFaculty of Humanities
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Inocêncio Joao Raul ZandamelaFaculty of Humanities