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Leonore Spee: Sleeping In State

19 February 2024

Eighteen young Flemish and Dutch authors have taken inspiration from seventeenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum. Looking at these objects, what eureka moments do they see? Leonore Spee took her inspiration for a short story from the model of a life-size marble statue of William of Orange lyi

How Even William the Silent Could Not Hold the Netherlands Together

6 July 2022

Last year, cultural historian René van Stipriaan’s long-awaited book about William of Orange, Father of the Dutch Nation, was published: De Zwijger. Het leven van Willem van Oranje (The Silent. The Life of William of Orange). During the height of his power, it seemed that Orange would become the

A State Beheaded: The Political Fall of Land’s Advocate Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

10 May 2019

In the early morning of 13 May 1619 the Binnenhof in The Hague, the political centre of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, filled with thousands of curious people from inside and outside the city, all waiting with baited breath for the moment one of the most powerful men of the time would

Orange: a Colour that Unites and Divides

25 April 2019

You can't miss it in the Netherlands on King's Day or during international soccer games. The whole nation is covered in orange. But do you know why the Dutch wear orange hats and eat orange cakes instead of, let's say, yellow ones or red ones? There's a fascinating historical reason for this. The lo

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