The anima historica naturaliter: Bunna Ebels-Hoving and the Allure of Historical SensationIn her book (Geschiedenis als metgezel) Bunna Ebels-Hoving pays a great deal of attention to explaining how and why she became a historian. This is important, for it describes…

The ‘I’ in the Historian in Geschiedenis als metgezelIn her analysis of Geschiedenis als metgezel Mineke Bosch focuses on the autobiographical aspects of the book. At first Bosch wonders why the author needs to legitimise her choice of a personal…

A Companion’s MasqueradeWhat was it like, in the nineteen-fifties, to study history at a Dutch university,to be appointed there (on the sole merit of some years’ experience of grammar school teaching) to a vaguely defined part-time assistant post, and to…