The organisers of the 12th Tensions of Europe (ToE) Conference call for abstracts for this conference with as central theme ‘The meaning of the past in sustainable futures’. This conference will be held on 8-10 July 2026 at the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and will be organised by the Eindhoven History Lab,…

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 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…

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…

Two Posthumus affiliates, both members of the Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History, were awarded a prize by the European Society of Historical Demography (ESHD) at the 6th ESHD conference in Bologna on 12 September 2025. Emeritus Professor Angélique Janssens, former Scientific Director and long-standing board member of the N.W.Posthumus Institute was awarded…

On 4 October, the Dutch / Flemish Paleography Contest 2025 was held at the Academiezaal in Sint-Truiden (Belgium). This contest is organised every second year by the archival institutions behind the online paleography platform ‘Wat staat daer?’. At this contest, about 40 finalists from the Netherlands and Flanders competed on transcribing three archival texts. Two…

On 3 October 2025, the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO; Fund Scientific Research Flanders) announced the awarding of the annual FWO PhD Fellowships. Through these fellowships, the FWO aims to support early-stage researchers in their development into independent researchers by giving them the opportunity to carry out their own scientifically challenging and innovative research…

On 3 October 2025, Module 3 of the Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’ started. This online lecture series is scheduled as part of the COST Project CA22116 – The Great Leapand is organised in co-operation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. It is targeted at students and…