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…

The Research School Political History, the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Huizinga Institute, and the Research School for Medieval Studies warmly invite PhD candidates and recent graduates to the PhD Career Day 2025. This event will be at the IISH in Amsterdam. This day offers an inspiring programme with speakers who all hold a PhD in…

On 29 September 2025, Posthumus alumnus Alberto Concina successfully defended the thesis ‘Tilting the scale of life: A multidimensional study of living standards between peasant and rural market societies in North-Western Italy, 1650-1800’ [transl.: ‘Herkalibratie van de weegschaal van het leven. Een multidimensionele studie van de levensstandaarden in rurale “peasant” en markteconomieën in Noord-West-Italië, 1650-1800’]…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op vrijdag 31 oktober organiseert de Vereniging Gelre haar jaarlijkse symposium. Met dit symposium wil Vereniging Gelre historische context bieden bij de huidige debatten over de landbouwsector. Het thema van dit jaar luidt: ‘Maakbare boeren en boerinnen? Landbouw en platteland in Gelderland tijdens de wederopbouwjaren’. Tijdens de…

On 22 September 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jurriaan Wink successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Het thuisfront springt bij: Stad, gewest en vorst op de bres voor kooplieden uit Kampen, Utrecht en Zutphen in den vreemde (ca. 1440-1560)’ [transl. ‘Help from home: Urban, regional, and central authorities of Kampen, Utrecht, and Zutphen supporting merchants abroad (ca. 1440-1560)’]….