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#15 – The Fury of the Frisian Freedom Fighters

23 March 2022

For a long time, Friesland was an autonomous anomaly in Europe, free from the feudal obligations that were so deeply entrenched in society everywhere else. When the counts of Holland wanted to break this autonomy, they incurred the wrath of the Frisian freedom fighters.

#11 – The Unfortunate Fate of Floris V, God of the Peasants

5 October 2021

In this series on the history of the Netherlands, we have looked a lot at the social changes that took place in the southern lowlands. Let’s move back north and focus our attention on how the area which, after various disastrous floods cut it off from Friesland proper during the 13th century, beca

A Monument Against Fake News: The Planetarium of Eise Eisinga

9 September 2021

The oldest working planetarium in the world can be found in Franeker in the Dutch province of Friesland: the Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium. The Netherlands wants this unique planetarium to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The life’s work of Eisinga (1744–1828) is a monument of the

Drawing of Alma-Tadema Found on Brussels Flea Market

17 April 2019

The Fries Museum in Leeuwarden has bought a drawing by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). It is most likely a portrait of his cousin Sientje Tadema. The work was offered to the museum by someone who found it at a flea market in Brussels. The drawing will be on display from 20 April in the exhibit

Swallows and Floating Horses

25 March 2019

On Monday 11 March some forty people – lovers of literature and translation, students, staff and friends of the UCL Dutch Department - gathered in the Haldane Room of University College London for an evening of Frisian culture around the great new bilingual anthology Swallows and Floating Horses. 

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