726 search results for “histories” in the Library website
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Hannelore BraekenFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Andrea WarneckeFaculty of Humanities
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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Felipe Colla De AmorimFaculty of Humanities
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Cecilia-Louise von IlsemannFaculty of Humanities
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Mahdis MirzadehFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Heino van RijnberkFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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UNESCO World Heritage
The UBL holds seven collections recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. Six are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents or Memory of the World Register, one in the Dutch UNESCO register.
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Library organisation
Leiden University has several library locations. These libraries are part of one organisation: Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The UBL includes the University Library, the Social and Behavioural Sciences Library, the Law Library, the Science Library, the Asian Library, the Middle Eastern Library, the African…
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Early Printed and Rare Books
What we now call ‘early printed books’ used to be ‘modern’ works in former centuries.
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Geographical Information Systems
Geographic information systems (GIS) are computer-based systems for editing and displaying spatial data. GIS tools allow users to create interactive queries, analyze spatial relationships, patterns or trends and visualize the output of all these efforts.
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Photographs
The photographs collection of Leiden University Librarie (UBL) contains specimens of almost all photographic processes from the history of the medium, rare objects and artistic highlights. Together, they shed light on the history of photography as a technique, a means of scientific, historic and personal…
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Medieval Manuscripts
With its more than 1400 bindings and over a thousand fragments Leiden’s collection of medieval manuscripts (up to ca. 1550) is the largest in the Netherlands.
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Afrikastudies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in African Studies
- Literary Studies
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Leiden Knowledge Centre for Photography
Leiden is a knowledge hub, unique in its kind in the Netherlands, for academics, professionals, students and all other people who are specialized or interested in photography. The city and university offer:
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Prints
The collection of prints was started through a donation from the aristocrat Jean Theodore Royer, who bequeathed some 20,000 prints to the university in 1815. The collection has expanded through further donations and some major purchases. The nucleus consists of Dutch graphic art from 1500 until now.…
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University and student life
During the year 2021 and 2022 Leiden University Libraries illuminated the rich past of its university and its students by organising the thematic programme "University and Student life". Several online exhibitions, boekensalons and public lectures were organised around this theme, especially for the…
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Physics
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Physics.
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Manuscripts, Archives and Letters
The Western manuscript, archival and letter collections consist of books and documents written in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic script.
- Introduction to Digital Humanities
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Chinese Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Chinese Studies
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Eelco van der MaatFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Gabriela Palacio LudeñaFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund AmannFaculty of Humanities
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Amadou AdamouFaculty of Humanities
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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.
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Southeast Asian Special Collections
The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…
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Italian Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Italian Language and Culture
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Jelmer RotteveelFaculty of Humanities
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Petr KoluchFaculty of Humanities
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Rozemarijn VlijmFaculty of Humanities
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Eva DrommelFaculty of Law
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Timothy de ZeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Albert LogtenbergICLON
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Jessie van StraatenFaculty of Humanities
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Margaretha SmolenaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Erik GeleijnsFaculty of Humanities
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Bert StamkotFaculty of Humanities
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Lingyun LaiFaculty of Humanities
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Hans ThuisFaculty of Humanities
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Abbas Siavash AbkenarFaculty of Humanities
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Erik KoopmanFaculty of Humanities
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Reynier PetFaculty of Humanities