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New front office of Leiden University in Jakarta opened 01 September 2022
Last July, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister of Education, Culture and Science and Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University's Executive Board, opened t...
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Online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia launched 30 August 2022
On August 30, the online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia was launched. The platform provides access to over 1,400 digitised maps of Southea...
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Winners of Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship 2022 26 August 2022
Earlier this year, the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute announced a new fellowship: The Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship. The fellow...
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana 18 August 2022
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-centur...
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Reading list - our favourite books this summer 09 August 2022
Did you also read a lot this summer? We made some real headway on our bookshelves. After all, nothing beats reading a beautiful or thrilling book outs...
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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels 21 June 2022
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and so...
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Digitised Chinese mega-maps now available in Open Access 20 June 2022
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...
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Leiden Asian Library renews sponsorship of ICAS Book Prize 16 June 2022
The Asian Library at Leiden University Libraries has renewed its sponsorship of the ICAS Book Prize (IBP) of the International Convention of Asia Scho...
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Exhibition Books that made history 31 May 2022
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...
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Announcement of Scaliger Institute Research Fellowship Winners (1st round) 19 May 2022
With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fello...
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A DIY tradition goes online: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections 18 May 2022
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...
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Online exhibition Borderlands - Ukraine in historical maps 16 May 2022
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...
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Politics after Pim - a reading list 06 May 2022
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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Cybersecurity - A Reading List 29 March 2022
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...
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‘Stolpersteine’ at the University Library to commemorate Leiden war victims 28 March 2022
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...