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Sep 22, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Femke Brink; Kay Pepping; Manjusha Kuruppath, 2025, "GLOBALISE - Non-Western people described in the General Missive footnotes", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/DTQKI6, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:w3GDhmKPUDOp/sLnGwWf3A== [fileUNF]
This dataset is comprised of people observations from the footnotes of the General Missives RGP volumes. It focuses on linking Dutch versions of non-Western names to the biographical details in the footnotes. The aim was to both create more structured data on non-Western people i...
Sep 22, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Madison MacKenzie, 2025, "Japanese Individuals relevant to the Dutch East India Company Archives", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/MMAYDK, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:6wCJ27Hj2vk71wvgWTPmVA== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains biographical observations about historical Japanese figures from the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) and related eras. The dataset captures various types of information including personal appellations, life events (births, deaths), occupational roles, and family...
Sep 22, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Smit, Renate, 2025, "GLOBALISE - VOC Document Segmentation Dataset", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/XMCZLZ, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:6pNG8HfphDeciynT9YU+RA== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains detailed annotations of Dutch East India Company (VOC) archival documents based on the TANAP (Towards a New Age of Partnership) project. The dataset provides precise boundaries and classifications for documents within digitized archival volumes, serving as t...
Sep 18, 2025 - Resilient Diversity
Canfijn, Imran; Geelen, Alexander; Heijmans, Elisabeth; Van den Hout, Bram; Negrón, Ramona; Rensen, Bas; Rose, Sophie; Van Rossum, Matthias; Thiébaut, Rafaël; Tosun, Merve; Te Velde, Hanna; Reyes, Stefan, 2022, "Early Modern Dutch Colonial Court Records, 1637-1828", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/5KEUY9, IISH Data Collection, V3
The dataset Early Modern Dutch Colonial Court Records, 1637-1828 was created as part of the project Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800, coordinated by Catia Antunes, Ulbe Bosma, Karwan Fatah-Black and Matthias van...
Aug 29, 2025 - Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia Slave Trade Databases
Veenhuijsen, Martijn, 2025, "Index van aan bod gekomen en/of genoemde slaafgemaakte vrouwen bij de Raad van Justitie te Kaap de Goede Hoop", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/BZ8NNB, IISH Data Collection, V1
This Dutch-language dataset was created as part of the MA thesis "Slavernij in de Nederlandse Kaapkolonie: De onzichtbare arbeid en rol van slaafgemaakte vrouwen in het tussenstation Kaap de Goede Hoop (1652–1795)", a study of the labour and roles of enslaved women in the former...
Aug 20, 2025 - Historical Database Suriname
Quanjer, Björn; Muurling, Sanne; Riswick, Tim; Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Matthias; Thompson, Kristina, 2025, "Suriname Cause of Death Database 1903-1949", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/9J7EX5, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:5lO9qMnSWwche5imu3yVZQ== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains aggregated cause of death data for Suriname 1903-1949.
Jul 14, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Pepping, Kay; Smit, Renate; Kuruppath, Manjusha, 2025, "GLOBALISE - Digitized Indexes of the Dutch East India Company OBP (1602-1799)", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/LVOQTG, IISH Data Collection, V2, UNF:6:fQBCKsg6a6hJDWa+JgBm4A== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains a data-version of the indexes of the archives of the Dutch East India Company, specifically the 'Overgekomen Brieven & Papieren' or 'OBP'. It combines the digitized indexes generated by TANAP (Towards a New Age of Partnership), which covered most of the arch...
Jun 15, 2025 - HISCO
Van Leeuwen, 2016, "Files from HISCO database", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/JA9B8O, IISH Data Collection, V2, UNF:6:P/x7e56FlwNkplEB7kJWiQ== [fileUNF]
2025-06-15: as a temporary solution, please click this link to DOWNLOAD the files. This dataset contains all files from the HISCO database as used for the historyofwork.iisg.nl website and HISCO book (see: DOI:10.3200/HMTS.37.4.186-197).
Jun 13, 2025 - HSNDB-HSN
Mandemakers, Kees; Mourits, Rick J; Zijdeman, Richard L, 2025, "Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). Data Set Civil Certificates Release", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/55PJBN, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:Jkk8aUDTNDYjFq6mmQ7LMw== [fileUNF]
This release entails data from the certificates (births, marriages, and deaths) and survival data from different sources. With this release earlier versions are improved and enlarged. This release includes a survival table, which is based on information from the other registratio...
Jun 12, 2025 - HSNDB-AUXILIARY
Mourits, Rick J; Mandemakers, K.; Laan, F.; Munnik, C.; Meijer, K., 2024, "HSNDB Standardisation Tables", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/IKB8HO, IISH Data Collection, V3, UNF:6:tPdATGBY+dCx49ElotiAXg== [fileUNF]
These are the files that the HSNDB uses to standardise: - age - family names - given names - religions - toponyms / locations Version history: v1: 2024, Jun 26 v2: 2024, Aug 5 updated ref_age v3: 2025, Jun 12 updated ref_age, ref_religion
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