Research School for Economic and Social History

Positions

Vacature Bureauredacteur Geschiedenis Magazine – deadline 1 december 2025

~ because of scope and required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Het tijdschrift Geschiedenis Magazine zoekt voor ca. 8 uur per week een organisatorisch sterke en creatieve bureauredacteur, op ZZP-basis. Geschiedenis Magazine is een historisch tijdschrift voor een breed publiek, dat mooie en spannende verhalen combineert met de nieuwste wetenschappelijke inzichten. De beoogde redacteur heeft…

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Collaborative Studentship PhD (LSE ESRC and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) – deadline 14 January 2026

The LSE ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, offers a Collaborative Studentship PhD, commencing in September 2026, on the project ‘Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century’. Decolonisation, the process by which colonies gained independence in the mid-twentieth century, was a global process which led to self-governance,…

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PhD vacancy ‘The historical development of sports in Belgian seaside resorts’ (VLIZ) – deadline 9 November 2025

The VLIZ (Flanders Marine Institute) has a vacancy for a PhD fellowship on ‘The historical development of sports in Belgian seaside resorts: Navigating between health promotion and entertainment’. This PhD project looks at how sports acquired a central place in Belgian seaside resorts, from the early developments midway the nineteenth century until the massification of…

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