Towns and elites in Merovingian northern Gaul, 450-650

The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the law.

Over 1,200 children from junior schools in Leiden and The Hague were taught by a real professor on the university's anniversary.

Holidaymakers, day-trippers and tourists could book a university tour with a student as their guide in summer 2025.

The recently introduced nature-originated deep eutectic solvents, so-called natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are considered as truly green solvents, which composed of natural ingredients found abundantly in organisms.

Firearms and violence in Europe–A systematic review by Katharina Krüsselmann, Pauline Aarten, Marieke Liem

Unfolding potential

This book reveals how one publishing firm's editorial strategy helped to legitimate European colonialism in the early modern era.

In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest threats to human health worldwide in the coming decennia.

When we read a text, we think we know who wrote it, but in the early modern period, manuscript production was often a collaborative or ‘socialised’ enterprise involving secretaries and scribes who physically wrote what the author dictated.

Toward optimal measurement and greater understanding of youth cognition in school refusal and cognitive behavioural therapy outcome

This thesis aimed to investigate core cross-linked polymeric micelles (CCPMs) and expand their potential for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs and co-factors.

Promotor: E. Bouwman Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

This thesis explores interfacial conductance and electric field-effects in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures.

Lets hit the water! Our students joined us on Saturday 30 August 2025 for a Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) and canal clean-up session on Leiden’s canals with Plastic Soup Surfer Merijn Tinga.

What was the function of the Dutch Protestant Church in Sri Lankan society? Why did people relate to the Church and how did conversion influence their life course?

Some offenders are given short prison sentences. They tend to be people who are generally not faring well before they go to prison; they may have difficulty finding a job for instance. A short spell in prison can make them even more vulnerable. Attention therefore needs to be paid to continual supervision…

Between 1798 and 1813 successive regimes attempted to enforce a fundamental geographical and administrative redivision of the Netherlands. The provinces that had been sovereign states within the Republic of the United Netherlands for over two centuries were dissolved and replaced by ‘departments’, subordinate…

A History of Dutch Corruption and Morality showcases 300 years of change, continuity, and diversity in the history of Dutch political corruption and public morality. It analyses a series of corruption scandals and shows how the following debates were connected to the big changes of that time: from the…

Managing Diversity: Supervising Functions in Managing Colonial Workplaces

Numerous beads and pendants of amber, jet and bone have been found in Dutch Neolithic and Bronze Age context, both in settlements and in graves. Because ornaments are personal items, they are closely linked with people’s identity.

An integrated approach for the simultaneous prediction of polypharmacology and binding affinity/potency of small molecules.

The research involves the application and combination of archaeological and archaeometrical methodologies. Petrographic analysis and isotopic provenance studies of raw materials and exotics, and the study of the distribution patterns of these materials are used to gain insight into the exchange of goods…

This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective.

Legal education initiative of the Leiden University, the University of Groningen and Universitas Indonesia.

We have examined sequences from the ligand-binding domain of the nicotinic acetyl choline receptor (nAChR) in 148 vertebrate species. We are in interested in this receptor because the α-neurotoxins of many venomous snakes binds to this receptor in its location at the neuromuscular junction in all ve…

Can playing certain games decrease cognitive decline or even enhance cognitive performance in the aging population?

How did learned natural historical inquiries into the underwater world develop in eighteenth-century Europe?

On Thursday 28 March 2024 Said Reza Huseini successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Making sense of the world around us depends on the fundamental ability to parse the world into distinct objects and keep track of them. This process is defined as object individuation. Research indicates that it is not always easy for infants.

Between 1600 and 1800 countless manuals appeared on the subject: the improvised bass part on the harpsichord, pianoforte or organ. Musician and researcher Kathryn Cok unravels the secrets of the Dutch basso continuo accompaniment for modern-day musicians.

This work represents the final results of several years of research within the Maya region. It deals with the relations between architecture and urbanism with landscape and astronomy.

Which criteria do ED patients and therapists evaluate as most relevant for recovery? Do patients and therapists differ in their evaluations? Do eating disorder patients differ from a healthy control group in their scores on the Recovery Scale?

Investigating the contribution of interpreters, informants, hunters and guides in the making of colonial scientific knowledge.

This thesis describes the synthesis, analysis of various tetrazine bearing compounds and use in bioorthogonal chemistry.

Source: Bioorg Med Chem, Volume 23, Issue 14, pp. 4034-49 (2015)

This research project of the Catholic University of Leuven was created in 1976 by Professor Dr Pierre Vermeersch, who assumed its direction until 2003. The present director is Professor Dr Philip Van Peer.

The role of material culture in early colonial encounters in the Caribbean

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of ICLON (Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching) with four partners in Kazakhstan.

Investigating Neolithic houses in Britain through microwear and residue analysis of stone tools

To what extent was labour-induced migration important to the functioning of the towns and cities of Roman Italy?

The project’s main aim was to build a reconstruction of a prehistoric house plan, without using any metal tools. How effective are tools made of stone, flint, bone, antler and wood? What are the constraints imposed by the various building materials? How much labour do we need and how much knowledge…

The use-wear analysis of domestic implements provided new insights of the Single Grave Culture population in the Netherlands.