The HSN offers a representative sample of about 78.000 people born in the Netherlands during the period 1812-1922. The HSN-database containing individual life-courses is a unique tool for research in Dutch history and demography.
News
LONGPOP - 2 positions hosted by IISH
The deadline for application is now extended to 30 April 2016. For more information and application, please see the LONGPOP website.
Jaap Dronkers
Jaap Dronkers, one of the founding fathers of the HSN, died unexpectedly at the age of 71. © photo Freddy Rikken
LONGPOP - 2 positions hosted by IISH
LONGPOP is now hiring 15 Early Stage Researchers positions in the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie MSCA-ITN Project LONGPOP, two of the positions being hosted by the IISH:
ESR2-Evaluating and Documenting IDS Databases and Extraction Software
ESR11: Researching GIS systems of Historical Addresses.
For more information and application, please see the LONGPOP website. Deadline for application is 15 April 2016.
LONGPOP
On 4 February 2016 the kick-off meeting of LONGPOP took place at CCHS-CSIC, in Madrid, Spain. For more information on this project, please see the LONGPOP website.
Ruben Schalk
Ruben Schalk defended his PdD thesis entitled Splitting the bill: matching schooling to Dutch labour markets, 1750-1920 on 18 December 2015 at Utrecht University.
News archive
Older news can be found in the news archive.
On the HSN pages:
• More about HSN, its history and activities.
• Information about the HSN data, the sources and the structure.
• Research projects, making use of HSN data.
• Products, such as releases, publications and presentations.
• Links to other sources on the internet.
See also:
Life Courses in Context. A collaboratory based on Dutch population registers and censuses (19th and 20th century). An overview of the data
Contact
HSN
T +31 20 66 85 866
E hsn@iisg.nl