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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
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).
• 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.
• Annual Report 2007
The HSN Annual Report 2007 is now available as PDF document
(text in Dutch, 539 Kb).
• Kees Mandemakers professor
On 1 September 2008 Kees Mandemakers, head of HSN, was appointed professor of Large Historical Databases at the Faculty of History and Arts of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• 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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