Featured:
- Report | Colonial law, slavery and interactions
Pepijn Trienekens, PhD candidate at the Radboud University and the IISH // The history of slavery and colonialism receives growing attention in academic research, encouraged by a growing corpus of readily available source material… Read more: Report | Colonial law, slavery and interactions - Blog | Uncovering the Invisible: Enslaved Women’s Work in the Cape Colony
Martijn Veenhuijsen, MA History at Radboud University // Strategically located halfway between Europe and Asia, between 1652 and 1795, the Cape of Good Hope functioned both a refreshment station and settler colony within the… Read more: Blog | Uncovering the Invisible: Enslaved Women’s Work in the Cape Colony - Blog | Vitória Dias: A Good Christian?
Philipp Huber, PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam // On 30 December 1607, the Lisbon Inquisition questioned Vitória Dias. It had already questioned many others about her. Vitória was part of the… Read more: Blog | Vitória Dias: A Good Christian? - Blog | Helena’s trial for freedom
Britt van Duijvenvoorde, PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam // I can hardly imagine how Helena felt when she heard that “the signatories put more credence in the words […] of a… Read more: Blog | Helena’s trial for freedom
Upcoming events:
- 2025-10-16/17 | Workshop | Navigating Worlds of Coerced Labour
- 2025-12-02 | Seminar | Miguel Rodrigues
- 2026-03-04/06 | Conference | GLOBALISE: Colonial Pasts, New Approaches and Historiographical Futures
Recent reports:
- Report | Seminar “Dependency, Bondage and Slavery in Northern Eurasia”
Pascal Konings, PhD Researcher and ESTA Project Coordinator, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam // On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, the Joint Projects on Slavery (IISH-Radboud University)… Read more: Report | Seminar “Dependency, Bondage and Slavery in Northern Eurasia” - Report | Colonial law, slavery and interactions
Pepijn Trienekens, PhD candidate at the Radboud University and the IISH // The history of slavery and colonialism receives growing attention in academic research, encouraged by a… Read more: Report | Colonial law, slavery and interactions - Report | DH2025 Lisbon: Accessibility and Citizenship
Bethany Warner, Junior Researcher, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam // On 14th to 18th July, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) hosted its annual Digital… Read more: Report | DH2025 Lisbon: Accessibility and Citizenship - Report | Depok: A Story of (Im)material Heritage of Slavery
Britt van Duijvenvoorde, PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Pascal Konings, PhD Researcher and ESTA Project Coordinator, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam //… Read more: Report | Depok: A Story of (Im)material Heritage of Slavery - Report | DH Benelux 2025
Bethany Warner, Junior Researcher, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam // The 12th edition of the Digital Humanities Benelux conference took place last week at the Vrije… Read more: Report | DH Benelux 2025