The University of Groningen has been an international university since its foundation in 1614. The first professors formed a rich international community, and many students came from outside the Netherlands, especially from areas now belonging to Germany. Internationalization, a popular slogan nowadays, is therefore nothing new, but its meaning has changed over time. How did the University of Groningen grow from a provincial institution established for religious reasons into a top-100 univers...

Annemieke van Drenth onderzoekt aan de hand van de geschiedenis van de Haagse Idiotenschool hoe speciale kinderen in de loop van de negentiende eeuw ontdekt werden. Dominee Cornelis E. van Koetsveld richtte deze eerste school voor speciaal onderwijs op met steun van de zeer betrokken koningin Sophie. Kinderen die niet mee konden komen in het gewone lager onderwijs werden er onder de noemer ‘idioot’ opgenomen. Idiotisme werd niet langer als ziekte gezien, maar als stagnatie in de kinderlij...

By the closing decades of the 19th century, photography and postcard-production arrived in British Malaya. The colonial-era postcards that were produced up to the 1940s captured virtually all aspects of life in the British colony and remain as visual testimonies of how the colonial subjects at the time lived and worked, as well as their relationship to the land. And yet, despite the developments in photography and postcard-production, the images that were produced also reiterated and reproduc...