Dr Arthur der Weduwen
USTC Project Manager & Lecturer
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2911
- adw7@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research areas
I am a Lecturer in Modern History and Co-Director and Project Manager of the project. My specialism lies in the history of the Netherlands, but I have enjoyed broadening my research in recent years to encompass Europe generally, as well as more specifically the history of Anglo-Dutch relations, Scandinavia and the Baltic.
The first subject of my research career was the history of newspapers, which resulted in the publication of the (Brill, 2017), as well as two co-authored studies on the invention and development of (both Brill, 2020). I have also worked extensively on the history of early modern printing, the book trade and book collecting, producing two co-authored public-facing monographs on the (Yale UP, 2019) and a (Profile, 2021).
My most recent major publication, , is partially based on the PhD thesis that I defended at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 2018, a study of state communication in the Dutch Republic (OUP, 2023). This work describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents.
In 2023 I secured funding through an ERC Starting Grant/UKRI Frontier Research Grant that allowed me to expand my research on state communication by embarking on a comparative European study of the communication of law. The runs from 2024 to 2028, and involves three postdoctoral scholars and three PhD students. Each member of the team works on a case study (Italy, France, Scandinavia and the Baltic, Poland-Lithuania, the Habsburg lands, the Dutch Republic), which will allow us, as a research team, to come to a comprehensive understanding of the strategies that European authorities used to communicate with their inhabitants.
In my previous research, I have also undertaken work as part of my British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020-2023) on the writing and publishing of history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focussing as a case study on the canonisation of events in the Dutch Disaster Year (1672) and the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678).
I have published co-edited volumes on the history of , the , the , the , and .
I have been a visiting fellow at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Leiden, the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and the University of Padua.
I am an editor-in-chief of Brill's The Library of the Written Word - Handpress monograph series, and a member of the editorial board of the Dutch Yearbook for Book History.
At ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø I teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels on the history of the book, printing and public opinion, and the Dutch Republic. I welcome enquiries for postgraduate research supervision.
PhD supervision
- Chloe Akers-Brewer
- Saba Alkuwari
- Zachary Brookman
- Emma Caster
- Zina Gharakhani
- Giovanni Petrocelli
- Pawel Pietrowcew
- Adyan Sharda
- Demi vann Breukelen
- Mhairi Winfield
- Stanislas Zagun
- Alexa Zildjian
Selected publications
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Open access
der Weduwen, A. T., 2 Mar 2023, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 411 p. (British Academy monographs)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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der Weduwen, A. T. & Pettegree, A., 14 Oct 2021, London: Profile Books. 518 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Pettegree, A. & der Weduwen, A., 2 Apr 2019, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 485 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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der Weduwen, A. (Editor) & Pettegree, A. (Editor), 16 Mar 2020, Leiden: Brill. 668 p. (Library of the written word; vol. 78)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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der Weduwen, A. & Pettegree, A., 20 Feb 2020, Leiden: Brill. 322 p. (Library of the Written Word; vol. 77)
Research output: Book/Report › Book