177 search results for “colonialism imperialism and heritage” in the Library website
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Aya Ezawa
Faculty of Humanities
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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UNESCO World Heritage
The UBL holds five sets of manuscripts recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. They are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents (Memory of the World Register).
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Monique van den Dries
Faculteit Archeologie
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Rick Honings
Faculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Mara de Groot
Faculteit Archeologie
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Willemijn Waal
Faculty of Humanities
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Rients de Boer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Miyuki Kerkhof
Honours Academy
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Revival of Imperial Prague in Leiden
Leiden University Libraries revives Imperial Prague in Leiden with the exhibition Prague around 1600: Art and science at the court of Rudolf II. The exhibition can be seen from the 29th of September 2016 to the 10th of January 2017, in the exhibition hall of the Leiden University Library at the Witte…
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Sophie Starrenburg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marcel Cobussen
Faculty of Humanities
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Martin Berger
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sybille Lammes
Faculty of Humanities
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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Leiden University Libraries acquires 16th-century Chinese imperial edict from Robert van Gulik’s collection
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an extraordinary Chinese manuscript at auction in Hong Kong. It concerns an Imperial Edict (dated 1582) from the Ming dynasty period, at one time part of the former collection of well-known sinologist and author of detective-novels Robert van…
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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UBL signs Digital Heritage Network Manifesto
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) signed the manifesto of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) this November, during Digital Heritage Month, thereby joining the network. The manifesto calls on archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions to make their digital collections more visible,…
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Gül Aktürk Hauser
Faculteit Archeologie
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Limin Teh
Faculty of Humanities
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Siyun Wu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available
The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of the World’ Register, is now freely available online and can be used for teaching and research. La Galigo is the world's longest epic, written in the Buginese…
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariana De Campos Francozo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundred items related to China from the UBL Special Collections are now available via the Europeana website. The UBL was the only library to participate in…
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Stijn Bussels
Faculty of Humanities
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Maps and Atlases
The collection of maps and atlases consists of approximately 100,000 map sheets (including c. 3,000 manuscript maps), 3,500 atlases and 25,000 topographical prints and drawings.
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities