709 search results for “economic history” in the Staff website
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Krista Murchison in History Today on medieval pen-twisters
Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction between letters composed of minims. Assistant professor of medieval literature Krista Murchison has written an article in History Today on the hidden…
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’
Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it like to be an ambassador? ‘Diplomacy is fascinating.’ We spoke to her just before the presidential elections.
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Clare Fenwick
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alex Schilin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Brian McGarry
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Olaf van Vliet
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Pinar Ölcer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Svetlana Kharchenkova
Faculty of Humanities
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Gert-Jan Lelieveld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
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Nadine Akkerman’s 'Spycraft' in Harper’s Magazine: ‘Diverting history‘
In Harper’s Magazine, reviewer Dan Piepenbring discusses the latest book by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. ‘Spycraft’ showcases how and why messages were ciphered in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Technical problems are history with the Teacher Support Desk
For many teachers, they are a lifesaver: the people at the Science Teacher Support Desk. When a teacher has technical problems, they come to the rescue immediately. Veerle Warnders is one of them and she tells us what is so great about her job.
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CFA: Summer school Global History in the 2020s, Leiden 27-29 June 2023
On 27-29 June, 2023, Leiden University's Institute for History will host a summer school on Global History in the 2020s, in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH).…
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction'
Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together with her team, she organised the controversial exhibition ‘Revolusi! Indonesië onafhankelijk!’ What did studying History teach her?
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Bosch wins the World Cup prediction competition of the Institute for History
With a well-attended award ceremony at the entrance of the Johan Huizinga Building on Tuesday 20 December, we concluded the World Cup prediction competition of the Institute for History in which 57 colleagues of 17 different nationalities competed for glory.
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
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LEF grant for legal history research into limitation of marine liability
In July 2021 the Leiden Empowerment Fonds (LEF) awarded a research grant of €13,500 for research into the history of maritime law in early modern times.
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Hauke Ward
Science
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Gavin Robinson
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jeroen Duindam appointed new academic director of the Institute for History
The Institute for History has a new academic director. Professor of Early Modern History Jeroen Duindam will take on this role from 1 September. ‘You can only do this job properly if you make time for it.’
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Jay Huang
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Göran Sundholm
Faculty of Humanities
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Jorrit Smit
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Claire Vergerio
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
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Havar Solheim
Faculty of Humanities
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Kees Verduin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gina van Ling
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Theunissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Ivo Smits
Faculty of Humanities
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Jelle Bruning
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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Toon Kerkhoff
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Ying Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijana Vujosevic
Faculty of Humanities