rMA and PhD workshop OPG / DIA, 13 February, 14.00 – 17.00 hours. With Marc Buggeln (Flensburg), Marjolein ’t Hart (VU/Huygens) and Maarten Manse (Linnaeus University). This workshop is explicitly open to research master students and PhD candidates. Free admission, but please register by sending an email to: bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl before 6 February 2026. Please include in your registration a one-page statement reflecting on how the history of taxation could provide new perspectives on your research.

In this full-day workshop, RMA students and PhD candidates will get acquainted with the possibilities of incorporating digitised audiovisual media sources in their research. The workshop will introduce the participants to media-historical approaches in political history, by reflecting on historiographical trends and experimenting with digital methods to study primary source materials. Registration deadline: 6 March 2026, via bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl. Deadline assignment: 13 March 2026, via Solange.Ploeg@ru.nl

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This research master course explores how traditional historical expertise can be productively combined with digital methods. It offers both methodological perspectives and hands-on training in researching political history using a wide range of primary sources: analog, digitised, and born-digital. Registration deadline: 19 March 2026, via bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl.