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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024 Event - 9 December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study Event - 20 May 2024
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

The history of the Perzian Book of Kings Event - 23 April 2024
Lecture, Studium Generale

Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas Professor emeritus of History of European-Asian Relations
Faculty of Humanities

Leo Lucassen Professor of Global Labour and Migration History
Faculty of Humanities

History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’ News - 22 March 2021
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…

Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’ News - 9 August 2022
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.

Writing history together in the Transvaal News - 18 October 2021
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…

Luuk de Ligt Professor of Ancient History
Faculty of Humanities

Marlou Schrover Professor of Economic and Social History
Faculty of Humanities

Ariadne Schmidt Professor by special appointment of History of Urban Culture, in particular of Leiden
Faculty of Humanities

Ben Schoenmaker Professor by special appointment Military History
Faculty of Humanities

Femme Gaastra Professor emeritus Maritime History
Faculty of Humanities

Willem Otterspeer Professor emeritus of University History
Faculty of Humanities

Turaj Atabaki Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia
Faculty of Humanities

History of crime comes to life News - 2 June 2023
For many people, five o’clock signals the end of their working day. But not for the motivated students of the Honours College Law. With some drinks and snacks, they keep going well into the evening. This time, they met for the festive conclusion of a course which brought the history of Dutch crime to…

Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history News - 19 June 2022
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.

Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam News - 18 November 2021
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…

Wim Willems Professor emeritus of Social History
Faculty of Humanities