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…

The Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University is offering a PhD position within the project LangPro: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern Language Sector (1550-1650) on the topic ‘Women in the Early Modern Language Sector’. The LangPro project examines the notion of the language sector in early modern North-West Europe: that part of early modern…

The Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University is offering a PhD position within the project LangPro: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern Language Sector (1550-1650) on the topic ‘Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry’. The LangPro project examines the notion of the language sector in early modern North-West Europe: that part of early modern…

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…

The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in collaboration with LeidenGlobal offers a twelve-week course ‘Methodologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities’. This course will allow beginning scholars to develop a critical understanding of methodologies in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). The course will run from February until June 2026. Methodology refers to the…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Posthumus-fellows Patricia Van den Eeckhout en Peter Scholliers (emeriti hoogleraren Vrije Universiteit Brussel) zijn gestart met een blog over de geschiedenis van de eetcultuur in West-Europa sedert de late 18e eeuw, ‘Historisch eten & koken’. Korte stukken van ongeveer 500 woorden behandelen thema’s die niet of amper…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Posthumus-fellow en -bestuurslid Dries Lyna schreef samen met co-auteurs Kim Lempereur en Joris Martens het boek Vergeten verhalen: Slavernij en de koloniale ketens van ’s-Hertogenbosch, onlangs verschenen bij Radboud University Press. Stap voor stap ontrafelt dit boek hoe het kolonialisme de stedelijke bestuurders, bedrijven en gewone burgers…

On 29 and 30 June 2026 the University of Antwerp and the Paris School of Economics will host the workshop ‘Channeling Middle-Class Savings, 1850-1940’, exploring the investment of middle-class savings between the second half of the nineteenth-century and the Second World War. The organisers call for papers that deal with the expansion of savings banks…

The Huizinga Institute and the N.W. Posthumus Institute are offering a 3-day workshop on ‘Networks in History’, to be held on 21-23 January 2026 at the International Institute of History in Amsterdam. Description and aim Historical network analysis as a mode of enquiry is gaining traction in the humanities. Embedded in the interdisciplinary field of…