740 search results for “modern history” in the Staff website
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Adam Fairclough
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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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kim Beerden
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Jesse Sarneel
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerrit van Uitert
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrew Sorensen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Eric van Hoof
Bestuursbureau
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Ekaterina (Kate) Pukhovaia
Faculty of Humanities
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Wei Chu
Faculteit Archeologie
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Governance, and the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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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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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den Heijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Oosterbaan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten Heuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadia Bouras
Faculty of Humanities
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Marieke Bloembergen
Faculty of Humanities
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Carola Hein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Diego Salama
Faculty of Humanities
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Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education
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William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Alain Wijffels
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk te Velde
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans-Martien ten Napel on Tocqueville and modern democracy
Recently, Hans-Martien ten Napel was in the news on the above subject several times.
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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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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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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities