The Professor Van Winter Fund calls for proposals for one PhD position, to be funded by thids fund. This funding aims to allow PhDs in History to obtain an independent PhD position based on an individual PhD project, developed by the PhD. The funding is awarded every 4-5 years and covers a project of up…

Posthumus fellow Dr Davide Cristoferi (Ghent University) is the editor of the recently published open access publication Socio-Economic Inequalities during the Conjuncture of the Fourteenth Century: Sources and Methods, Dynamics and Representations (Italy and Europe, c. 1270 – c. 1350). This volume, to which other Posthumus members from Ghent University, ULB, and the University of…

At the 2025 Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography, held in Bologna, 10-13 September 2025, Posthumus affiliates received an Honourable Mention in the competition for the Roger Schofield Award. The Roger Schofield Award has been established to recognise the best paper presented by a young demographer (under 35 years of age) at the…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De tak Jong KNHG van het Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap (KNHG) zoekt twee nieuwe bestuursleden: een bestuurslid evenementen en een secretaris. Leden van de KNHG jonger dan 31 jaar vallen (automatisch) onder Jong KNHG. Jong KNHG slaat een brug tussen aanstormende historici en de rest van de…

~ because of scope only in Dutch ~ Op 20 november 2025 zal professor Danielle van den Heuvel, hoogleraar Vroegmoderne economische en sociale geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Utrecht en tevens voormalig bestuurslid van het N.W. Posthumus Instituut het ambt aanvaarden met het uitspreken van de rede Hoe de Was eens Was. Over de Rol van…

On 21 October 2025, Posthumus alumna Vicky Vanruysseveldt will defend the thesis ‘Onderweg met amusement. Inkomensstrategieën en mobiliteit bij ambulante entertainers in Brabant (1750-1914)’ [transl. ‘On the road with entertainment. Income strategies and mobility among itinerant entertainers in Brabant (1750-1914)’ at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Supervisor is Professor Anne Winter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). The N.W. Posthumus…

The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their 11th jointly organised Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 11-17 May 2026, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the 2026 seminar is ‘From craft guilds to unions’ and…

The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to present you the N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Report 2024. The report provides you with an overview of activities, results and developments regarding the N.W. Posthumus Institute in 2024. DOWNLOAD (PDF, 4.2 MB)

On 29 September 2025, seventeen new members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) were officially installed. Among these new members is Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Professor in Economic and Social History at Utrecht University and board member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Elise’s research on topics including industry, sex work, and…

The VLIZ (Flanders Marine Institute) has a vacancy for a PhD fellowship on ‘The historical development of sports in Belgian seaside resorts: Navigating between health promotion and entertainment’. This PhD project looks at how sports acquired a central place in Belgian seaside resorts, from the early developments midway the nineteenth century until the massification of…