The Research School Political History and the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam jointly organise the workshop ‘Histories of taxation, (in)equality, and redistribution’ on Friday 13 February 2026. The workshop will include contributions by Professor Marc Buggeln (Europa Universität Flensburg), Emeritus Professor Marjolein ’t Hart (VU Amsterdam), and Dr Maarten Manse (Linnaeus University), and explores the role of…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Erfgoed Brabant, de Historische Vereniging Brabant en Stichting Zuidelijk Historisch Contact willen de wetenschappelijke beoefening van de Brabantse geschiedenis aan de Nederlandse en Belgische universiteiten en hogescholen bevorderen en jonge onderzoekers op dit terrein aanmoedigen en hebben daartoe een prijs ingesteld voor masterscripties die handelen over de…

René van Weeren, Office Manager of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and co-author (with Tine De Moor) of the publication ‘Ja, ik wil! Verliefd, verloofd, getrouwd in Amsterdam, 1580-1810’, was interviewed by the Dutch national broadcast company NTR on the history of marriage legislation. Direct occasion for this interview was a recent case of a Dutch…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Janna Coomans, coördinator van het onderzoeksnetwerk ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’van het N..W. Posthumus Instituut, behoort volgens RTV Utrecht tot ‘de hoofdrolspelers van 2025’ in Utrecht in verband met haar publicatie ‘Dievenland’, waarvoor Janna de Libris Geschiedenisprijs 2025 ontving. Naar aanleiding…

On 6 March 2026, Professor Marlou Schrover, longstanding board member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will deliver her valedictory lecture at Leiden University. More details will follow in due time, but those who want to attend this lecture in person, should already register via the registration form. The lecture will also be streamed via the…

The Department of Public Law and Governance of Tilburg University is looking for a PhD candidate in Governance and Legal History of Water Quality. The PhD candidate will examine what today’s governance of water quality can learn from early modern cities. By tracing how civic communities once organised and enforced measures to protect water resources,…

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 is intended to establish unwritten and existing standards for historians and can serve as a…

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 grave?’, which focused on the decline of infectious diseases among various social groups in Maastricht…

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 Amsterdam, which . gave members of the Amsterdam skippers’ guilds the first right to take…

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 positive change. Participants will explore what Diamond Open Access (DOA, a fully open publishing model where…