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On 29 March, the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, sent a parliamentary letter stressing the importance of open science in scientific research. In his letter, he named research project Slave Registers by Coen van Galen (Radboud Institute for Culture and History) as a shining example of open science.

Rick Mourits and Paul Puschmann published an article entitled ‘Exploring familial factors in the migrant mortality advantage among domestic migrants in later life: Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1812-1962’ in SSM - Population Health.

Alicia Montoya (RICH) and Mirjam Broersma (CLS) will both receive a Vici grant. This will enable them to develop an innovative line of research and set up their own research group for five years.

For his project: Building a Research Agenda: Histories of Moviegoing in Suriname, Thunnis van Oort is currently in Suriname.

Much of the lives of urban dwellers in early modern Europe were played out in city streets and squares. In the edited volume, Early modern streets: A European perspective (2023), the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 are brought together, tackling key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped and how this changed over time.

How do indicators compare two distinct measures: mortality before age 20 and young adult height? In a new article by Björn Quanjer, Ingrid van Dijk, and Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge in Demography, the authors compare both health indicators for those who experience parental mortality in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1940.

The eScience center of the Netherlands has awarded the HDSC team a grand of 63.750 euros to obtain 1150 hours of assistance by a software engineer.

Sanne Muurling, Tim Riswick and Katalin Buzasi published their article 'The Last Nationwide Smallpox Epidemic in the Netherlands: Infectious Disease and Social Inequalities in Amsterdam, 1870–1872' in Social Science History.

We are happy to announce that our research group Historical Database of Suriname and Curacao (HDSC) is soon going to publish the first releases of the Surinamese and the Curacao slave registers, in which the individual enslaved persons are linked between different series and owners. To celebrate this milestone, we organise a one-day research symposium to explore the research possibilities of these newly released datasets.