592 search results for “modern history” in the Student website
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Boender
Faculty of Humanities
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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Touwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeannette Kamp
Faculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
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Leo Lucassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
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…
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Randal Sheppard
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty of Humanities
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
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Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
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.
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Ben Schoenmaker
Faculty of Humanities
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Femme Gaastra
Faculty of Humanities
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Boot
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Gräfin von Courten
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Dario Fazzi
Faculty of Humanities
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
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Antheun Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
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…
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education
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Enes Sütütemiz
Faculty of Humanities
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.
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Embedded Bureaucrats and Refugee Integration: How Do Local Bureaucrats’ Social Ties to Host Communities Facilitate Service Provision to Refugees
Lecture, LIMS seminar