Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and so...

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 an...

The Asian Library at Leiden University Libraries has renewed its sponsorship of the ICAS Book Prize (IBP) of the International Convention of Asia Scho...

From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had...

With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fello...

Close to twenty thousand pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry journals from China in the Leiden Digital...

The war against Ukraine did not start in February 2022, but in the spring of 2014 when Russia suddenly annexed Crimea and supported separatist militia...

A flamboyant politician, a divisive figure in the Dutch political landscape and a 'man of the people' who presented himself as an unconventional minis...

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As people spend ever more time in cyberspace, so do criminals. The more reliant we become on digital technology, the more vulnerable we are to hackers...

Two Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) have been placed in front of the University Library in memory of the Jewish Cosman family. At the time of the Sec...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an exceptional two-volume Miao album. The acquisition was made possible by the Rombouts Fun...

Early 2022, the UKB consortium renewed a number of 'read and publish' contracts with major publishers.

Love. It makes people do the strangest things and at the same time it is a primary necessity of life. Over the centuries, writers and poets have fille...

The Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship program offers the opportunity to three scholars to spend up to three months conducting research using the Southeas...