Projects & Research

Intersex people share their experiences

The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam 1900-1940
Thesis Selma Leydesdorff - 1987

How mining and gas extraction changed life in Southern Limburg and Groningen

A long-term initiative to improve the digital research chain on the use of Oral History and Spoken Word, with research on artworks and museums as use cases.

Narrated (In)justice is a research project (2014-2016) by historian Nicole L. Immler that depicts how historical injustice increasingly demands public attention through financial compensation claims.

The project 'Interviews in Conservation Research' aims at an integrated approach to the use of oral history for research in art conservation in a responsible way, using case studies from the Rijksmuseum and the Cultural Heritage Agency.

oral history as sustainable data in urban settings

Works of art in museum collections are managed and shaped by institutional policies and personal beliefs. Oral History methodology can help to explore this socio-cultural perspective.

Ongoing research focusing on stories of veterans from the period 1941-1950.

Everyday educational practice in the past and its social effects.

Memories of the Leiden textile industry in the twentieth century

The changing relationship of (grand)children to their (grand)father through their search for his wartime past as a Dutch SS officer