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.

OPG is pleased to offer travel grants for OPG PhD candidates who wish to participate in the upcoming APH conference, “Dynamizing and Decentring Empires: A Recalibration of the History of the Political,” taking place 11-13 June 2026 at the University of Münster.

We would like to introduce you to the members of our School and show the diversity of the themes that are studied within it. In every Newsletter we give you a glimpse into one research project. This edition: PhD candidate Jip Boer (RU).