Leen Dresen, Towards a national landscape: botanical walks in the journal Album der Natuur (1861-1909)This article traces developments within the 'botanical walks' that were featured in the successful Dutch popular science journal Album der Natuur, and proposes to interpret these…

Willemien Roenhorst, The ‘natural’ nation.The monumentalisation and nationalisationof nature and landscape in the Netherlands in the early 20th century The first part of this article traces the origins and development of the idea of ‘natural heritage’ - the attribution of…

K. van Berkel, Landscape, nature and national identity. An introductory noteIt was one hundred years ago, in 1905, that a group of schoolteachers, biologists, merchants and members of the nobility founded the Dutch Society for the Preservation of Natural Monuments…

Karel Davids, Low countries, faraway horizons. The relation between nature, landscape and ‘Dutch’ identity in a comparative perspectiveHow did nature, landscape and identity in the Netherlands become intertwined during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? And more particularly,…

Wessel Krul, The Hague School and the national landscapeFrom the 1870s onward, the so-called ‘Hague School’ was credited with the invention of a type of landscape painting which was felt to be truly national, in the sense that it realistically…

Pim Kooij, The Green Heart of the Netherlands. A transient inventionAround 1960 in the Netherlands the ‘Green Heart’ was invented: this was the name given to a vast area of polders, cleared peat areas, ponds and villages, on the borders…