Completed projects

This research focused on the divergent ways in which sports and physical culture functioned as representations of modernity, which individual actors and social groups were claiming to be fit for modernity, and how sports and physical culture could function as new markers for inclusion and exclusion in Dutch society.

Project Amsterdamse Doodsoorzaken 1854-1940

Between Rivalry and Support. Differences in the Mortality Chances of Brothers and Sisters in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1860-1945.

Financing the ageing of population. An historical and comparative perspective.

The Genes, Germs and Resources project studied the phenomenon of familial influences on early death and exceptional survival in the Netherlands between 1812 and 2015.

This project has been made possible with the financial support of theNetherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The volumes of life at the extremes: The demography of Europe and China (LatE) are edited by Chuang Ying-chang (College of Hakka Studies , National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), Theo Engelen (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and Arthur P. Wolf (Stanford University, U.S.A.)

Het gebedenboek van Maria van Gelre is een sleutelwerk uit de Nederlandse kunstgeschiedenis van rond 1400. Door de kwetsbare staat waarin het verkeerde kon het niet worden bestudeerd en tentoongesteld. In 2015 ging het project Gebedenboek Maria van Gelre na een geslaagde crowdfunding officieel van start. De Radboud Universiteit, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin en Museum het Valkhof werkten vier jaar lang aan de restauratie van het boek, het onderzoek en aan de ontwikkeling van een tentoonstelling. Het onderzoek heeft veel nieuwe inzichten opgeleverd: duidelijk is nu hoe de miniaturisten te werk gingen, welke pigmenten ze gebruikten, hoe het boek is samengesteld en dat Maria daarbij een belangrijke rol gespeeld heeft. Ook is het gebedenboek online beschikbaar gekomen. Het project werd begin 2019 afgerond.

The prayer book of Maria van Gelre is a key work in Dutch art history from around 1400. Due to the fragile condition in which it was found, it could not be studied and exhibited. After successful crowdfunding, the Maria van Gelre Prayer Book project was officially launched in 2015. Radboud University, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Museum het Valkhof worked in close collaboration for four years on the restoration of the book, the research and the development of an exhibition. The research has yielded many new insights: it is now clear how the miniaturists worked, which pigments they used, how the book was composed and that Maria played an important role in this. The prayer book has also become available online. This project was completed in early 2019.

Historians of the Radboud Institute for Culture & History have conducted research into Nijmegen during the Second World War.

This research aimed at illuminating the altering constructions of sport lives and, consequently, of sport as a changing cultural ideal during the twentieth century.