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…

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 ‘Writing New Urban History’, related to the recent publication of the 3-volume ‘The Cambridge Urban…

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 Dutch past and its global connections from 1900 to 2025. It brings together scholars from…

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 federal Dutch Republic. The book shows that the domestic effect of Holland’s financial revolution and…

Recently, there have been some changes in the group of PhD Representatives of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Hannelore Braeken will take the place of Dinos Sevdalakis. Dinos is now focusing on the completion of the PhD trajectory at the University of Groningen. We are thankful for the efforts Dinos made for the N.W. Posthumus Institute…

Amsterdam University Press has just announced the upcoming publication of the 34th edition of the Yearbook of Women’s History. This year’s edition focuses on the role of women in the maritime sector. Diverting from the image of women passively waiting for men to return, this edition of the Yearbook of Women’s History argues that women…