Bringing History Home: Postcolonial Immigrants and the Dutch Cultural ArenaThree Dutch-language monographs published in 2008-2009 by Ulbe Bosma, Lizzy van Leeuwen and Gert Oostindie in the context of the interdisciplinary research programme Bringing History Home, present a history of identity…

The Art of Dissimulation: A Frivolous Nazi Prince and the Dutch MonarchyAnnejet van der Zijl’s biography Bernhard. Een verborgen geschiedenis [Bernhard: A Hidden History] deftly interweaves the family history of the ‘Zur Lippe-Biesterfelders’ with the social decline of the minor…

Prince Bernhard: Biography of a Public RoleIn her biography Bernhard. Een verborgen geschiedenis [Bernhard: A Hidden History], Annejet van der Zijl strives to write unaffectedly about a controversial character, and to set out a human portrayal of Bernhard. But has…

Culpa in eligendo. The Skewed Perspective of a New Bernhard BiographyThe new biography Bernhard. Een verborgen geschiedenis [Bernhard: A Hidden History] by Annejet van der Zijl is seen, in the context of the sensational discourse on the monarchy in the…

Religious Co-Existence and the Public Church: Walcheren and Flanders of the States, 1602-1630During the past decades, the study of religious tolerance has shifted from its earlier focus on philosophical and legislative sources to a focus on daily practice, making use…

‘Everything is Ours’: Anonymous Letters concerning the Food Supply in the Netherlands during World War IIThe input of the Dutch population in the formation of food policy in the Netherlands during World War II is often unduly neglected. People did…

A Shaky Exposition: On De-pillarisation as a CaricatureDutch twentieth-century history is regularly constructed on the basis of the antithesis of verzuiling (pillarisation) and ontzuiling (de-pillarisation). The popular discourse of de-pillarisation suggests the dismissal, around the 1960s, of three societal characteristics:…

Thorbecke Revisited: The Role of Doctrinaire Liberalism in Dutch PoliticsIn the political history of the nineteenth century Thorbecke played a crucial role. As the architect of the 1848 liberal constitutional reform he led three cabinets. In many ways he dominated…

Hygienic Re-Education: Health Colonies and the Medicalization of Child WelfareIn the Netherlands between c. 1880 and 1970, large numbers of working-class children were subjected to a penetrating kind of hygienic re-education in ‘health colonies’. The aim of the philanthropic societies…

The Congo has recently been the subject of much academic research. This article discusses the major trends and developments. It primarily focuses on the Congo crisis of 1960, which was commemorated in 2010 and has been inquired into by many…