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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet.
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums have a very contemporary exhibition practice’
University lecturer Laurie Cosmo, having grown up in New York, came to the Hague from Rome, Italy, where she fell under the spell of the Kunstmuseum. ‘I loved the building even before I worked at Leiden University.’
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Anthropologist Andrew Littlejohn on NU.nl: 'With Trump taking office, the tide is turning on disaster management'"
More than twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern United States with nearly 1,400 deaths. Due to climate change, the lessons from this disaster are more relevant than ever, but the Trump administration seems to be ignoring them by cutting funding for disaster management. Anthropologist…
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Marie-leen RyckaertFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days'
It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to investigate how factors such as nationality, political systems, and religion influence the first thousand days after…
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Wreck in the Wadden Sea: ‘Objects tell the story’
More than 40 years ago, a wrecked merchant ship was found in the Wadden Sea. PhD student Geke Burger looked at this archaeological find from a historical perspective.
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Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Thea Hilhorst
Faculty of Humanities
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Rudi van MaanenFaculty of Humanities
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Pieter EmmerFaculty of Humanities
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’
GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in social communications isn’t new, says Associate Professor Marika Keblusek. She has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition (Large)…
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargon
Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ and ‘evaluation frameworks’. This made debates more abstract and less ideological.
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Susanna de BeerFaculty of Humanities
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Yingjie FanFaculty of Science
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Sander van RijnFaculty of Science
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Thijs BiermanFaculty of Science
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Mathieu CherpitelFaculty of Science
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Rebecca PloofSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Inês Isabel Correia Gomes
Faculty of Science
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Haoran YinFaculty of Science
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An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860-1950
Hybrid Book Talk | SSEALS
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Masterclass in International History with Patrick O. Cohrs
Lecture, INVISIHIST Masterclass
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Hein Drop
Faculty of Humanities
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Jamel BuhariFaculty of Humanities
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Rong YuanFaculty of Humanities
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Morena SkalameraFaculty of Humanities
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Henrike Vellinga
Faculty of Humanities
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Pichayapat NaisupapFaculty of Humanities
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Gerda Huisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Patricia KretFaculty of Humanities
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Brian ShaevFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Koundja Mayoubila
Faculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der MeerFaculty of Humanities
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Arie van der Wiel
Faculty of Humanities
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Marjolein Jorna
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
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Zoltán Quittner
Faculty of Humanities
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke Kooijman
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim LubbersFaculty of Law
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Sil DoumaFaculty of Law
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Jiaxuan Huang
Faculty of Humanities