Daily Bread operates within and works closely together with the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History (ACUH). For more information, visit the ACUH website.

About ACUH

The Amsterdam Centre for Urban History (ACUH) represents one of the largest research groups in the Low Countries for the study of urban history. With about 30 staff members and PhD candidates, we explore the history of urban societies from a long-term and broad geographic perspective: from Antiquity to the modern era, from Europe to Africa and from the Middle East to the Americas.

Key Themes 

Scholars at the ACUH focus on a wide range of themes: from urban governance, economy, class and gender relations, to religion, ethnic identity, crime, health, housing, planning, leisure and representation. Most of the research, however, emerges from the basic yet fundamental question of how people from various backgrounds have been living together in densely populated cities. The role of institutions and the contested use of urban space figure prominently in many of our research projects.