OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2026)Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific detection of crime. Driven ...
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(2023)Ob im Klassenzimmer oder auf dem Sportplatz, in der Sozialen Arbeit oder der deutschen Erinnerungskultur – Antisemitismus ist immer noch trauriger Alltag in der postnazistischen Migrationsgesellschaft Deutschlands. Der ...
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(2026)This article traces the history of water rescue in the Netherlands and the pivotal role of the Apeldoorn Rescue Brigade. Founded in 1934, the brigade gained (inter)national fame with its innovative “Auto te water” course, ...
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(2026)Despite the strict neutrality of the Netherlands in the First World War, several ambulances were sent with the approval of the Dutch government, to the warring countries to help and care for the wounded. This also applied ...
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(2026)A seemingly simple hand fire pump from 1778 opens up the history of the so-called ‘Van Marum pump.’ The author shows that the true inventor was not Martinus van Marum (1750–1837) but the instrument maker Jan Paauw (Leiden, ...
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(2026)In commemoration of the work performed by its ambulance units during the Franco-Prussian War, the Netherlands Red Cross issued a memorial poster. It portrayed a nurse hovering above the battlefield, expelling the demon of ...
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(2026)During the Cold War the Netherlands took precautions to protect its people from potential disasters, in particular nuclear threats. The Civil Defence Corps was established in 1952 and was divided into reconnaisance and ...
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(2026)In the summer of 1914, the Netherlands Red Cross sent four ‘Plague Ambulances’ to the Dutch East Indies to help combat a plague epidemic that had been raging there since 1911. Twelve older, experienced nurses were recruited ...
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(2026)Dutch who provided assistance to the occupier during World War II have long been neglected in historiography. This article portrays Sybren Tulp, a colonial soldier who was appointed chief commissioner after the February ...
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(2026)Despite concerns about declining literacy, Dutch-language children’s and young adult literature enjoys considerable recognition both nationally and internationally. Enthusiasm among researchers to study this field is also ...
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(2026)Safe is the first and only periodical publication in the Netherlands on public safety heritage. This yearbook focuses on the extensive and leading collection of Korpora, Public Safety Heritage, in operation since 1 August ...
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(2025)In 1951, approximately 12,900 Moluccans came to the Netherlands. They were mainly former soldiers of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) and their families. The expectation was that they would return home after ...
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(2025)Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of traditional Chinese children’s textbooks in a European language. This selection of eleven primers, spanning over two thousand years of Chinese ...
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(2026)How do instructors navigate the tension between facilitating safe spaces for students while also challenging students intellectually in increasingly politicized classroom settings? How can trigger warnings be used to empower ...
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(2025)Open Access Musicology (OAM) publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly essays primarily intended to serve students and teachers of music history, ethno/musicology, and music studies. The constantly evolving collection ensures ...
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(2025)Forgotten Friendships: Yugoslavia and the Anticolonial Francophone World examines transnational friendships and alliances between intellectuals from Yugoslavia and the Francophone African and Caribbean world during the ...
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(2026)The Photographic Fix explores how photographs from World War I were used in personal photo albums and mass-market picture books to determine the meaning and legacy of the postwar Weimar Republic. Due to their publication ...
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(2026)K-Pop Fandom insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a central productive force, shaping not only K-pop’s explosive global popularity, but also K-pop’s cultural impacts, politics, and horizons of ...
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(2026)China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain understudied or unknown in the West. The Qiang, one of modern China’s ...
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(2026)In ancient Rome, the Latin word viscera denoted the inner parts of the body, where physical sensations related to fear and anger could be felt and whose injury meant certain death. Viscera were also entangled with religious, ...
