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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
• Hilde Bras
The Young Academy selected Hilde Bras as one of her ten new members. The official installation will take place on 16 March 2012 in the Trippenhuis of the KNAW. More information.
• XingChen Lin
On 15 November 2011 XingChen Lin defended her thesis entitled Female Heads of Households in Eurasian Societies. Taipei and Rotterdam in times of industrialization at the Radboud University Nijmegen. More information.
• Symposium AlfaLab
On Thursday, 29 September 2011, AlfaLab Live will hold its closing symposium 'The future of Humanities: eHumanities in Practice'. On this occasion Kees Mandemakers will give a demonstration of LifeLab. See the website of AlfaLab for more information.
• Annual Report 2010
The HSN Annual Report 2010 is now availabe as a PDF document (text in Dutch, 932 Kb).
• CEDAR project awarded
CEDAR, a project with the Computational Humanities framework of the KNAW, has been awarded and will work to improve the accessibility of the census data.
• See also 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
Cruquiusweg 31
1019AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 66 85 866
email: hsn@iisg.nl
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