Marieke Nolten completed her Bachelor and Research Master History at Leiden University. Since September 2025, she works as a PhD-candidate in the Vici-project Daily Bread. A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests, supervised by prof. dr. Maartje van Gelder. Within this project, she focusses on the Dutch Republic and investigates how political ideas of protesters have been constructed in the direct aftermath, memory culture, and history-writing. She is especially interested in the intersection of cultural memory and protest.