600 search results for “history of russian” in the Library website
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Lun JingFaculty of Humanities
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Love, war and... football: 2024 in Leiden stories
A new government, conflicts around the world and obviously a lot of science: these are the five stories about Leiden University that you enjoyed reading in 2024.
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Donation enables digitisation of Chinese unofficial poetry journals
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has received a donation from Dr. Freerk Heule to digitise and publish an internationally unique collection of unofficial (minjian) poetry journals from China. These poetry journals are produced outside the official infrastructure for literature in China for literature…
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Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens up thousands of pages from an internationally unique collection of unofficial Chinese poetry for teaching, research, and the general public, including…
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New in the collections: correspondence of Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska
Slavicist, translator and publisher Pim van Sambeek recently donated his correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Most letters were written in 1982-1983 before the first publication of a collection of Szymborska’s poetry in Dutch, translated by…
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Friendship in poetry - a reading list
How do we view friendship? And how have writers throughout the ages described that unconditional bond of trust in poems and literature? It's Poetry Week! And you guessed it; this year's theme is 'Friendship'. For this reading list, we went through our collections in search of the many ways friendship…
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Our favourites for the summer - reading list
The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) not only hold academic material, but also many novels, collections of poetry, non-fiction works and even cookbooks. Is there still some space on your summer reading list? Take a look at the list below and borrow your book through the UBL.
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Remko OffringaFaculty of Science
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Chinese Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Chinese Studies
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World Heritage Status for Letters from Indonesian Women's Rights Advocate Kartini
UNESCO has recognized a large collection of handwritten letters and the archive of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904) as documentary world heritage. Kartini opposed gender inequality in feudal Javanese society, including forced marriages, polygamy and lack of education for women.
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Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis
The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came up at Leiden University’s 448th Dies Natalis. A panel discussion including Leiden’s mayor Lenferink, music and two honorary doctorates completed the special…
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Ruben van UdenFaculty of Law
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Johanna Berkheij-Dol
Faculty of Humanities
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Frederic LensFaculty of Science
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Alette VonkFaculty of Humanities
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
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Arthur CrucqFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse SarneelFaculty of Humanities
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Alexandra PrégentFaculty of Humanities
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Laura PlezierFaculty of Humanities
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Ton van HaaftenFaculty of Humanities
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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Arnold ZiegelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Helen WestgeestFaculty of Humanities
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Nora JulmiFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah NelsonFaculty of Humanities
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
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Yunnan Ye
Faculty of Humanities
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
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Klaas VrielingFaculty of Science
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Aris PolitopoulosFaculty of Archaeology
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline VelFaculty of Law
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Masoud KianiFaculty of Humanities
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Gerlov van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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Susanna de BeerFaculty of Humanities
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Rik van GijnFaculty of Humanities
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Nargess AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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Middle Eastern Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Middle Eastern Studies
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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…
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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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Prior Fellows
Overview of the Scaliger, Brill, Elsevier, Van de Sande, Juynboll, Drewes, Isaac Alfred Ailion, Arminius, Van Gulik and Lingling Wiyadharma Fellows who have conducted research in the Special Collections of the University Library.