We are happy to announce registration for the Posthumus Conference 2025 website is now open! On 27 and 28 May 2025, the Posthumus Conference 2025 will be held in Nijmegen at Radboud University, hosted by Dr Dries Lyna and Dr Joris van den Tol. This year’s conference will be on the central theme ‘The People…

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 EAUH2026 Conference is ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’. With its focus on cities and…

~ 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 Radboud Universiteit en de Stichting Walburgiskerk. Het thema dit jaar is ‘Oorlog en Vrede in…

On 23 April 2025, the Food and Agricultural History Network of the Netherlands is organising an excursion and knowledge exchange with the Nederlands Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem. The museum is looking for ‘stories’ for farms that are at the museum, and academics have the knowledge to share – this event therefore promises to be a nice…

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 project ‘Partners in Innovation. Women Publishers as Knowledgeable Agents in the Low Countries’ Book Trade…

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). The PhD will work on the Italian subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and led by Professor Maartje van Gelder….

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). The PhD will work on the Dutch subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and led by Professor Maartje van Gelder….

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 Heerma van Voss (Utrecht University) and Dr Jeroen Touwen (Leiden University). The Dutch labour market…

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 in academia. How will digitisation open up new opportunities and yet present new challenges to…

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 the late eighteenth century, the rise of free-trade thinking and economic liberalism, alongside the political…