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,…

The 17th conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) will be held on 2-5 September 2026 in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia. The conference’s central theme is ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’. City networks have played a strategically important role in both the past and the present. Cities and the connections between…

The Professor Van Winter Fund calls for proposals for one PhD position, to be funded by thids fund. This funding aims to allow PhDs in History to obtain an independent PhD position based on an individual PhD project, developed by the PhD. The funding is awarded every 4-5 years and covers a project of up…

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…

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…

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…