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The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN)
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
• New Publication
Kees Mandemakers, Jan Kok and Hilde Bras (ed.). Van geboortebank tot collaboratory. De Historische Steekproef Nederland (HSN). [From a database of births to a collaboratory. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands]. Special issue Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis.
• Annual Report 2008
The HSN Annual Report 2008 is now available as PDF document
(text in Dutch, 1.1 Mb).
• HSN/IISG participates in Alfalab
From 2010 onwards the HSN will participate in Alfalab. A so-called lifelab will be established by building a portal for historical population counts and exploring ways of integrating data. The building of a well defined, open and easy access to the data of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands will be the first pilot.
• New Publication
Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Kees Mandemakers (ed.)
Honderdvijftig jaar levenslopen. De Historische Steekproef Nederlandse bevolking (Hundred and fifty years life courses. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands). Amsterdam. 2008.
• CATCH grant for LINKS project
The NWO programme Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage has awarded a grant to build a LINKing System for historical family reconstruction. The project is a cooperation between HSN/IISH, LIACS, Meertens Institute, NIDI, VKS and the GENLIAS' archives and is directed by Kees Mandemakers.
• News archive
On the HSN pages:
• More about HSN, its history and activities.
• Information about the HSN database, 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
Cruquiusweg 31
1019AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 66 85 866
email: hsn@iisg.nl
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