Lauren Lauret is assistant professor in Dutch History at Leiden University. Between 2022 and 2024 she was a Dutch Research Council Rubicon post-doctoral fellow at University College London. She is the secretary of the APH.

Her research focuses on how the political elite (re)claimed power after experiencing disruption, with a particular focus on the impact of colonialism on Dutch and British political practice.

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Recent publications include ‘No Emancipation without Compensation: Slave Owners’ Petitions and the End of Slavery in the Netherlands, c. 1833-1873‘ BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review (2024) 1-24; ‘Citizenship categories and their legacies in the Dutch post-colonial politics’, in: S. de Lange, a.o. (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Dutch politics (Oxford University Press 2024) 351-367, with. K. Fatah-Black; Serving the chain? De Nederlandsche Bank and the last decades of slavery, 1814-1863 (Leiden University Press 2023) with K. Fatah-Black and J. van den Tol.