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From gym classes in icy classrooms to 20,000 members: 80 years of sports history at the UvA
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From gym classes in icy classrooms to 20,000 members: 80 years of sports history at the UvA

27 June 2024 - 12:43
While now every UvA student almost mindlessly takes out a membership at the University Sports Center (USC), sports at the university just after World War II were mainly something for go-getters. In his book Meeting through Movement, sports historian Jurryt van de Vooren draws on 80 years of universi...
UvA researchers create historic 3D reconstructions of university quarter
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UvA researchers create historic 3D reconstructions of university quarter

22 May 2024 - 09:50
What did today’s university quarter look like 100 years ago? UvA historians, archaeologists, and 3D modelers have reconstructed three buildings in minute detail. “New roof tiles or panels of windows give clues about how the building was used.”
UvA students submit proposal for new war memorial
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UvA students submit proposal for new war memorial

3 May 2024 - 11:03
A group of students and alumni submitted a proposal to UvA for new monuments to the UvA victims of World War II. “There has been no update of the monument since 1950.”
War diaries | Highlighting the daily life of Amsterdam women
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War diaries | Highlighting the daily life of Amsterdam women

30 April 2024 - 16:54
What did the daily lives of Amsterdam women look like during World War II? UvA researchers linked six war diaries of Amsterdam women to the archives. On Remembrance Day, the website at the Stadsarchief, the City Archive, will go online. “The diaries reveal a network of various women in indepen...
Walking around ancient Athens is possible in games. But how historically accurate is it?
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Walking around ancient Athens is possible in games. But how historically accurate is it?

29 April 2024 - 09:56
Walking around fifth-century Athens? In a game like Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, it is possible. During a workshop organised by UvA Media Studies on history in games, about 50 students watched as a researcher made her way through ancient Greece. “As historians, a game allows us to really e...
“Private monopolies belong in government hands”
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“Private monopolies belong in government hands”

20 March 2024 - 13:04
Last week Herman Wals defended his highly topical historical dissertation on Amsterdam’s utilities. Originally these were in private hands, but were later transferred to the government. Now we see the opposite and the municipality is back to square one, courtesy of neoliberalism.
By chance, historian Johannes Houwink ten Cate found GVB invoices to the Nazis
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By chance, historian Johannes Houwink ten Cate found GVB invoices to the Nazis

15 March 2024 - 09:52
Johannes Houwink ten Cate, Professor Emeritus of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam, found invoices that the Amsterdam public transport company sent to the Nazis for the guarded transportation of Jews in streetcars during his work for the Institute for War, Holocaust and G...
Why do we put a tree in the house at Christmas?
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Why do we put a tree in the house at Christmas?

20 December 2023 - 10:55
In the course of the nineteenth century, the Christmas tree slowly made its way to the Dutch living rooms. Since then, the tree has been the centerpiece of Christmas celebrations. But what is the origin of the holiday tree? We asked UvA professor of European ethnology Peter Jan Margry. “Accord...
Willemijn van Dolen | How the ancient Greeks were already doing marketing
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Willemijn van Dolen | How the ancient Greeks were already doing marketing

19 December 2023 - 14:03
Influencers and audience analysis: even the ancient Greeks were already doing marketing, writes Willemijn van Dolen. “Marketing was so important that there was a separate goddess of sales talk: Peitho, described by the poet Herodas in his story about the sales tactics of shoemakers.&rdquo...
“Wilders understood very well that he had to be visible right at this moment”
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“Wilders understood very well that he had to be visible right at this moment”

24 November 2023 - 11:17
The landslide victory of the PVV is shaking the country to its foundations. Emeritus professor of Dutch history Remieg Aerts previously warned in Folia about the power of Geert Wilders’ parliamentary experience. But one day after the election, how does he view the election result?
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