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337 search results for “archives in historical research” in the Library website

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  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Chinese Studies

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  Stefan van der Vorm Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Science

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  Yara Abbing PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

• Art & Art History

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Art & Art History

• Collection of historian Johan Huizinga fully available online News - 19 November 2019

  The complete Johan Huizinga, the single most important historian of the Netherlands, is now available worldwide through the new Huizinga Online website. Huizinga’s scholarly archive, his Verzamelde Werken and his correspondence have been made digitally accessible by Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…

• Document discovered about Rembrandt's student years in Leiden News - 4 June 2019

  A previously unknown document about Rembrandt’s student years in Leiden has been found in the archive of Leiden University. The document, which is being kept at the University Library, proves that Rembrandt studied at Leiden University for longer than has always been assumed.

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  Rehana Dole Programme Manager UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Eva Schmidt Guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Joran Lammers PhD candidate/junior lecturer

  Faculty of Science

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  Linda Breeman Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Natalia Amat Lefort Lecturer

  Faculty of Science

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  David Heyne Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Lisa Schreuders Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Boya Li Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Online exhibition - Rembrandt and Leiden University News - 15 July 2021

  Rembrandt van Rijn is inextricably linked to the city of Leiden. He was born and raised here, went to school in the city, and spent the early years of his career in Leiden, a career that would one day make him one of the greatest painters in Dutch history. There is a similar connection between Rembrandt…

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  Aone van Engelenhoven University Lecturer Southeast Asian Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Natalia Donner Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bert Botma University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jan Jansen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Luisella Caon University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marcel IJsselstijn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Jelena Prokic Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Didem Yerli PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joao Ferreira De Miranda Santos PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Harry Buckoke PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Margaretha Folmer guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Loan agreement South Asia Collection News - 7 October 2016

  The UBL and the Friends of the Kern Institute (VVIK) signed a loan agreement for the collection of South Asia, especially India, and Tibet.

• Exhibition photographic oeuvre of world traveller Alexine Tinne News - 25 November 2021

  In collaboration with the The Hague Historical Museum and photographer Dagmar van Weeghel, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is the first to present a retrospective exhibition of the photographic oeuvre of Alexine Tinne (1835 – 1869). New research into her life and work is the reason for a reappraisal…

• Robert van Gulik Fellowship

  The Robert van Gulik Fund has established a Robert van Gulik Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute with effect from 2025. The fund thus supports the promotion of research on the sinological collections of the Leiden University Libraries.

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• Publish Open Access in Scholarly Publications

  Scholarly Publications is a sustainable archive for Leiden University’s publications, which researchers themselves can make Open Access by means of an upload via LUCRIS.

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  Hannah Bliersbach Lecturer/researcher

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Joop van Holsteijn Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Linda de Voogd Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Experience the university and student life in the Leiden Special Collections News - 21 January 2021

  With the thematic programme 'Student@University', Leiden University Libraries illuminates the rich past of the university and its students. Several online exhibitions, boekensalons and public lectures will be organised around this theme, especially for the interested public, and various blogs, videos…

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  Anne Hafkemeijer Projectmanager

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Kees Verduin Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Ralph Rippe Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Carolien Rieffe

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Tom Louwerse Director of Research / Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Michael Meffert Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Leiden University Libraries Signs AI Agreement with International Heritage and Knowledge Institutions News - 4 December 2025

  On December 3rd, AI4LAM (Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives, and Museums) was launched in London. Leiden University Libraries (UBL)is a founding member, along with more than 40 leading international heritage and knowledge institutions. Together with our partners in AI4LAM, UBL aims to promote…

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  Leonardo Lenoci ICT Research and Security Advisor

  Faculty of Science

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  Marieke Liem Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de Lange Professor

  Faculty of Science

• Celebrate free access: Public Domain Day 2026 News - 7 January 2026

  At the start of the new year, we celebrate the release of a new selection of collection items into the Public Domain. This year, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is making approximately eight hundred items freely downloadable via Digital Collections.

• 16th-century herbarium research News - 13 March 2018

  In March 2018 with the support of the Van de Sande Foundation Dr. Abdolbaset Ghorbani Dahaneh (Uppsala University) will research the sixteenth-century Rauwolff Herbarium and its botanical sources in Leiden University Libraries. On Wednesday, March 14, during the Clusius Symposium Ghorbani will give…

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