Month: December 2025
KNHG publishes updated version ‘Professional standards for historians’
The KNHG (Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap [transl. Royal Dutch Historical Society]) recently updated the already existing Dutch version of the code of ethics for historians, titled Normen voor historici. An English version is now also available. This code of ethics…
Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis – Journée de l’Histoire Contemporaine 2026
The Belgische Vereniging voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis – Association belge d’Histoire contemporaine BVNG-ABHC and the University of Antwerp call for papers for the 2026 edition of the Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis – Journée de l’Histoire Contemporaine, to be held on…
Change of Coordinator Research Network ‘Life-Courses, Family and Labour
Because Evelien Walhout has accepted another position, her place as coordinator of the Research Network ‘Life-courses, Family, and Labour’ will be taken by Mayra Murkens. Mayra Murkens obtained a PhD from Maastricht University on the thesis ‘Unequal pathways to the…
New edition TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History out now!
Issue 3 of TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History is out now! In this issue, you will find a variety of themes: JaapJan van Zwieten, PhD at VU Amsterdam, about the privilege of pre-loading in…
National Meeting ‘Towards New Horizons of Scholarly Publishing’
On 5 and 6 February 2026, Radboud University will host the National Meeting ‘Towards New Horizons of Scholarly Publishing’. Goal of this event is to bring researchers together who care about the future of the academic publishing system and are motivated to make a…
Workshop ‘Writing New Urban History’ (Brussels, 16 January 2026)
The Centre for Urban History and the Centre of Excellence of the Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality (AIPRIL) at Antwerp University jointly organise a workshop at the premises of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) in Brussels on…
STONEM Workshop: Connected by/with/to the Dutch (1900-2025) – prior registration requested
On 23 January 2026, the Research Team of the project ‘Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernization (STONEM) 1900-2020’ will organise the workshop ‘Connected wit/by/to the Dutch (1900-2025)’. This workshop examines the concept of entangled histories in relation to the…
Launch new ESTA data & TIDES / documentary screening Slave Island
The International Institute of Social History invites you to join the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database’s second data launch on 12 December 2025. Main organisers are Posthumus PhDs Britt van Duijvenvoorde and Pascal Konings. Since the launch of…
Publication ‘Frontiers of Finance’ from Posthumus fellow Alberto Feenstra published
On 18 December 2025, Brill Publishers published ‘Frontiers of Finance: The Political Economy of Public Debt in the Dutch Republic’, authored by Posthumus fellow Alberto Feenstra. In this book, Alberto analyses the political economy of provincial public debt within the…