Month: March 2025
Parlementaire kronieken 1998-2023 online en doorzoekbaar
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Sinds 1998 publiceert het Centrum voor Parlementaire Geschiedenis jaarlijks een kroniek van de belangrijkste politieke gebeurtenissen van het Nederlandse parlementaire jaar. Die kronieken staan nu, gecombineerd in één pdf, online. De kronieken…
Symposium ‘Sociale zorg en lotsverbetering bij zeevarenden, 1700-1900’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGvdO) organiseert een symposium over sociale zorg en lotsverbetering bij zeevarenden, 1700-1900. Zeelui werkten en leefden in een bijzondere omgeving. Gevaar lag constant op de loer…
UUCEMS Lecture 2025 by Professor Jake Soll – ‘Richard Price’s Prudence and the Unintentional Invention of Modern Capitalist Values’
On 15 May 2025, the Utrecht University Centre for Early Modern Studies (UUCEMS), in cooperation with Utrecht University’s Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities organises its annual lecture. This year’s lecture will be…
EUAH 2026 Conference ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’
The Seventeenth Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) will be held in Barcelona from Wednesday 2 September to Saturday 5 September 2026. The organisers welcome proposals for sessions for this conference edition; the central theme of the…
Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025: ‘Oorlog en Vrede in de Middeleeuwen – Realiteit, Herinnering en Mythe’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 20 juni 2025 vindt in Zutphen het Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025 plaats. Dit symposium wordt gezamenlijk georganiseerd door de Historische Vereniging Zutphen, Erfgoedcentrum Zutphen en Musea Zutphen, in nauwe samenwerking met de…
Conference ‘Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’
On 5-7 November 2025, the conference ‘The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’ is jointly organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO research…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Jeroen van Veldhoven
On 7 March 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jeroen van Veldhoven successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Partijpolitiek en de verschuiving naar flexwerk in Nederland’ [‘Party politics and the shift towards flexible work in the Netherlands’] at Utrecht University. Supervisors were Professor Lex…
Online Seminar: From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age
Pichayapat Naisupap and Melinda Susanto (both Leiden University and Posthumus alumni) are co-organising the online seminar ‘From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age’. Digital humanities and the digitisation of archives are ever-growing trends…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dennis De Vriese
On 10 March 2025, Posthumus alumnus Dennis De Vriese successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Selling New Ways of Selling. Legitimising Regulation and Deregulation in the Brussels Meat Market (1770-1860)’ at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Supervisor was Professor Wouter Rykbosch. From…