Het Amsterdamse fysisch lab AMOLF staat al 75 jaar aan de top van de internationale wetenschap. Jaap Kistemaker, pionier in uraniumverrijking, richtte AMOLF in 1949 op en bleef directeur tot 1981. ‘Als de koffie maar goed is’ was zijn understatement over het uitzonderlijke ‘wij-gevoel’ dat heerste op AMOLF, hét magische element dat de instelling tot zo’n succes maakte en blijft maken.

Frans W. Saris begon in 1964 als student-assistent op AMOLF, was van 1986 tot 1996 directeur en d...

In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

The year 2024 marks the opening of the new Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University, a purpose-built facility to serve the needs of all those who engage in the study of the Middle East and North Africa from the dawn of history to the present day. To celebrate the occasion, more than 40 authors from Leiden and beyond have contributed to this special volume on the library’s rich and multifaceted Oriental holdings.

Topics range from the Ancient Near East to the material and conservational ...

Het Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis publiceert Nederlands- en Engelstalige wetenschappelijke artikelen op het gebied van de boekgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen in alle perioden. Elke editie bestaat uit een thema-dossier en een selectie aan andere artikelen. Het thema-dossier van het 31e Jaarboek (2024) is gewijd aan artikelen over ophef in de Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis. Aan bod komen voorbeelden van boeken van de late middeleeuwen tot nu die ophef veroorzaakten; controversiële a...

Since before the American Civil War, African American and Japanese encounters produced relationships and discourses of knowledge that transcended Eurocentric conceptions of civilization and hierarchies of personhood. 'Black Transnationalism and Japan' introduces the diverse activity and intellectual movements created, shaped, and led by Japanese and African American people. While some Pan-Asianisms and Pan-Africanisms urged a uniting of colonized spaces against the colonizer, and were often e...

Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in Rembrandt’s Time focuses on the generation of rich young men that grew up in the seventeenth century in the Dutch Republic. These men had more money to spend on clothes, music, and recreation than the generation before them. This fascinating account of male adolescence in the Dutch Republic reveals how young men including Rembrandt van Rijn disregarded conservative values and rebelled against the older generation, and consequently created a new youth culture ...