920 search results for “histories” in the Student website
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Frank van LunterenFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Femke Fakkeldij
Faculty of Humanities
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Rozemarijn VlijmFaculty of Humanities
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Manon PostFaculty of Humanities
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Muhammad Asyrafi
Faculty of Humanities
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Neilabh SinhaFaculty of Humanities
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Beryl PrenenFaculty of Humanities
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Savvas SkoufaridisFaculty of Humanities
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Jelmer RotteveelFaculty of Humanities
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Marjolein Jorna
Faculty of Humanities
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Willemijn TuinstraFaculty of Humanities
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Travis Bowman
Faculty of Humanities
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Daan StremmelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Lina Lerch
Faculty of Humanities
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Mamadjibeye Mamadjibeye
Faculty of Humanities
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Caspar Dullemond
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
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Aart Ruijter
Faculty of Humanities
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Petr Koluch
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonard Ornstein
Faculty of Humanities
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David Knibbe
Faculty of Humanities
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Jorge Blake
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Verwey
Faculty of Humanities
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Natalie EvertsFaculty of Humanities
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Gerda Huisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Celine OldenhageFaculty of Humanities
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Melinda SusantoFaculty of Humanities
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Ton Elias
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Loderichs
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert StrooFaculty of Humanities
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organised
‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young workers were not taken seriously, but they managed to put themselves on the map’, says historian Rosa Kösters.
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Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’
A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina
82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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Matthew FrearFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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Frits van der MeerFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture