439 search results for “science museum” in the Library website
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Digitised texts and images available via advanced IIIF-technology
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made approximately 200.000 digitised books, maps, photographs and other materials available in Digital Collections via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF offers researchers and lecturers numerous new ways to share digital images from…
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Digitised Chinese mega-maps now available in Open Access
Three enormous maps of China, created during the reign of three different emperors of the Qing dynasty, have now been made available in open access and are downloadable via Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) Digital Collections. The rich maps are an early example of academic collaboration between the…
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700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri: the UBL Dante collection
In September 1321, exactly 700 years ago, one of Italy's most famous writers, Dante Alighieri, died as a Florentine exile in Ravenna. That makes 2021 a Dante year. Already during his lifetime, he was a famous writer. His current fame rests especially on the Divine Comedy, a long narrative poem describing…
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Somayah ElsayedScience
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Wil TamisScience
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Katy WolstencroftScience
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Katharina Doblhoff-DierScience
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Nurul Huda Binte Abdul RashidFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jaqueline Caniguan CaniguanFaculty of Humanities
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Gerard van WestenScience
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Diah AngendariFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Zulfadhli NasutionFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Alex Braat
Science
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Anne van RongenScience
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Gabriela SchäferScience
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Onno van der HeijdenScience
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Iris LangereisFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Romy DijklandScience
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Kauthar ParkerScience
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
Satellite conference
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Research suggestions
The research suggestions below may be suitable for a bachelor's or master's thesis or can be used as additional source material in ongoing research.
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North Korea
Welcome to the Sub-guide for North Korea. This Sub-guide is designed for students looking to locate, access and use a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly sources which are either (1) published or produced in North Korea or (2) about North Korea. This Sub-guide is a part of the General Subject…
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Crafting Resilience Kick-Off Conference
Conference
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Lennie GeerlingsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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David de BuisonjéFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Camila Paz Espinoza ChaparroFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Myrthe VeenmanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Literature on discrimination and racism from the Leiden University Library collections
After large scale protests in the United States following police violence against black American citizens, racism in the Netherlands, too, is once again being widely debated. This renewed and intensified interest in the problems surrounding racism is prompting many to (re)read important works by black…
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Literary Leiden - the reading list
Leiden fulfills a special role in Dutch literature: as a setting for stories as well as a place of work and residence for leading authors. It is the city described by Willem Bilderdijk as "O Leiden, Flower of Cities," but depicted far less glamorously by F. Bordewijk. The same city where Boudewijn Büch…
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Eveline Crone
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bernhard Hommel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Carolien RieffeFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anna van DuijvenvoordeFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Japan Studies: General Subject Guide
This Subject Guide is designed to support students of Japan studies at Leiden University in their research process. For every step of the research process, this guide introduces a number of tips and recommended resources. You can find several sub-guides and contacts in the 'quick links' in the tab on…
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Gilles van WezelScience
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Peter AkkermansFaculteit Archeologie