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Political history

Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse Politieke Partijen (DNPP) heeft als doelstelling het verschaffen van 'systematische en algemeen toegankelijke documentatie' met betrekking tot de Nederlandse politieke partijen. Het accent ligt daarbij op de activiteiten van politieke partijen buiten de Eerste en Tweede Kamer; hun parlementaire werkzaamheden worden gedocumenteerd door het Parlementair Documentatie Centrum (PDC), Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. Het op het DNPP aanwezige materiaal bestrijkt de periode vanaf het einde van de negentiende eeuw, toen de eerste partijen werden opgericht. Het merendeel van de documentatie betreft evenwel de periode na 1945.
Website with online publications, an overview of the collection, links (to political parties in the Netherlands) and other institutions (in Dutch).
Het Centrum voor Parlementaire Geschiedenis doet wetenschappelijk onderzoek op het gebied van de parlementaire geschiedenis van Nederland na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Site met lopend onderzoek en publicaties.
Clingendael Institute. The objective of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael is to promote the understanding of international affairs. Special attention is devoted to NATO, the European Community, the United Nations and other international organizations.
Extensive website with online publications, access to the library catalogue and a huge list of links (in English).
Overheid. Links to government institutions, provinces and local authorities (in Dutch).
The Dutch Parliament. The official site of the Dutch parliament. Click here for information in English, including a short history of the parliament.
Koninklijk Huis. The site of the Dutch royal house with information on the role of the monarchy in the Dutch political system, members of the royal house and the royal palaces.

Political history in topics
The Dutch Revolt Revolution and civil war in the Low Countries (ca. 1550 - ca. 1650). The site in Dutch is much more extended.
Van revolutie tot rusthuis, Zutphen, Zwolle en Kampen in de periode 1780-1830. A digital exposition by the archival services of Kampen, Zutphen and Zwolle on their towns in a period of turmoil.
De politiek en de dekolonisatie. Site with information on the decolonisation of Indonesia.

Online sources
Declaration of War Against the Dutch. Online text of the declaration of war against the Dutch by Louis XIV of France 1672.

Legal history

Nederlands Centrum voor Rechtshistorische Documentatie en Rechtsiconografie (NCRD) Het NCRD is een informatie- en documentatiecentrum op het terrein van de Nederlandse rechtsgeschiedenis. Onderzoeksgebieden zijn:
- oud-Nederlands recht: alle recht dat op het grondgebied van het huidige Nederland is ontstaan, vanaf de Germaans-Romeinse tijd tot ca. 1940
- geïmporteerd recht: Romeins recht, canoniek recht en overig Europees recht - voorzover van toepassing
- geëxporteerd recht: (onder meer) Surinaams, Antilliaans, Zuid-Afrikaans en Indonesisch recht - voorzover beïnvloed door het oud-Nederlands recht.
Eén van de taken van het NCRD is het verzamelen en beschrijven van teksten en afbeeldingen over de Nederlandse rechtsgeschiedenis. Beschrijvingen én platen worden opgeslagen in de Rechtshistorische Database die via het World Wide Web te bekijken is (IBL-account vereist)..
Limburgse rechtsgeschiedenis. Excellent site maintained by Prof. dr.Louis Berkvens of Maastricht University on the history of law in Limburg. With links, sources and publications.
Profiel Grondwet. Information by the NRC-Handelsblad newspaper on the Dutch constitution drafted by Thorbecke (in Dutch).
Recht uit de Lage Landen (Low Countries Law). Belgium site maintained by Jos Monballyu of the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven. Site with publications, links and source material.
Rechters in 1811. Site met veel informatie over de eerste professionele rechters die in Nederland benoemd zijn. Prosopografische gegevens plus informatie over de Franse rechterlijke organisatie 1811-1813 en de gevolgde procedures bij de recrutering en benoeming.
Weegschaal en Zwaard (Balance and Sword). Tentoonstelling van het Haags Historisch Museum over de verbeelding van recht en gerechtigheid in Nederland.

Military history

The Armymuseum in Delft. The website (Dutch/English) is nicely designed, but perhaps a bit too flashy. Information on expositions.
Marine Museum Den Helder "For anyone who wishes to know more about the fascinating history of the Royal Netherlands Navy the Naval Museum is just the place to go. In the permantent exhibition the visitor can follow the development of the naval vessel, be introduced to various naval heroes like Michiel de Ruyter, Jan van Speyk and Karel Doorman and come face to face with the weapons they used in battle, their uniforms, the plates they ate from and the decorations they received in reward. Or enter the submarine 'Tonijn and the minesweepers Abraham Crijnssen' and breath the atmosphere inside a warship."
Overzicht Nederlandse militaire, oorlogs-, verzets- en bevrijdingsmusea. A metasite, for those who can't get enough of military artifacts.
Mot's Castles Page. Castles and ruines in the Netherlands. A site dedicated to castles in the Netherlands.
Het Nederlands Vestingmuseum. The museum on the fortified town of Naarden.
De Forten Site. Lots of information on fortifications in the Netherlands.
Stichting Menno van Coehoorn. De Stichting Menno van Coehoorn is een landelijke vrijwilligersorganisatie die sinds 1932 ijvert voor het behoud van historische verdedigingswerken zoals stadspoorten en wallen, vestingen, forten, kazematten, stellingen en linies. Met onder meer een handige begrippenlijst voor degenen die meer willen weten over 'aardrollen' en 'schietsleuven'.
De Stelling van Amsterdam. Heel veel informatie over de Stelling van Amsterdam en andere Nederlandse verdedigingslinies en forten.
De Wiericker Schans bij Bodegraven.
Pampus. Informatie over het forteiland in de Zuiderzee.
Welkom bij fort Kijkduin. Nog een fort.

Economic, financial and business history

Leiden University Economic History Site. Maintained by Richard T. Griffiths.
Leiden University Business History Site. Maintained by Richard T. Griffiths.
Nederlandsch Economisch Historisch Archief.
National Accounts of the Netherlands 1800-1913. The results of the research programme "Reconstructing National Accounts of the Netherlands and the analysis of the development of the Dutch Economy in the period 1800-1940" carried out by J.L. van Zanden and others. From then onwards this programme resulted in a great number of articles and dissertations which provide a deeper understanding the the dynamics of long-term economic growth. To reconstruct national income extensive data concerning income, prices, foreign trade, production, employment and capital formation were collected and processed.
Very interesting site with downloadable datasets, online publications and so on.
N.W. Posthumus Institute. The network of economic and social historians in the Netherlands.
Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Lots of data.
Centraal Planbureau. The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis was founded over fifty years ago as the Centraal Planbureau (Central Planning Bureau), with Nobel laureate Jan Tinbergen as its first managing director. CPB provides independent forecasts and analyses that are scientifically sound and up-to-date and that are relevant for the policy decisions of government, parliament, and other societal organizations such as political parties, trade unions, and employer's associations. CPB combines two tasks which in other countries tend to be separate: it is the accounting centre for budgetary and economic policy and a research centre preparing independent forecasts and analyses. As part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, CPB has access to confidential policy information and hence can provide up-to-date assessments of policy options contemplated in the Cabinet. At the same time, the independent status of the Bureau secures the confidence of the other ministries in its assessments. Note that in the Netherlands the Cabinet is always a coalition of several political parties.
With online publications and downloadable data.
Nederlandse Sont Registers . An excellent site Dutch East see-trade, with a searchable database and online articles by J. Thomas Lindblad and Paul van Royen.
Leidse industrieën, 1850-1880. Information on industries in Leiden.
Foreign Investment in Indonesia. The items on this site contain data from 1967 until 1996 and have been taken from various sources. Main sources are Indikator Ekonomi, the monthly bulletin of the Central Bureau for Statistics in Jakarta and Informasi Investasi, a book about investment in Indonesia from the Investment Coordinating Board. Besides some 'background' information such as laws and regulations, an overview of the policies on fdi, some literature on fdi and some links, this site also contains several graphs and three databases on fdi in Indonesia.
Centrum voor Bedrijfsgeschiedenis (CBG). The Center of Business History is a research institute of the Faculty of History and Arts at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The CBG is specialised in business historical research, commissioned and non-commissioned.
Hansischer Geschichtsverein. Information on the Hanseatic trade (in German).
Inventaris en Geschiedenis Twentsche Bank. Online article (in Dutch), by Albertus Jans Mensema.
Het Scientific Management van Frederick W. Taylor, by Albert Benschop of Amsterdam University.
Limburgse mijnbouw. Site on the coal mining in Limburg.
Sicco Mansholt. Essay on the founder of the European agricultural policy, by J.C.F.J. van Merriënboer.

History of science and technique

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Local and regional history; cultural heritage

Social history

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded in 1935. It is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular. The IISH also carries out and stimulates scholarly research. It is a respected meeting place for researchers from all over the world and organizes conferences, symposia and international research projects. The Institute publishes research results through international academic publishers and its own inhouse publishing unit. The International Review of Social History is published for the Institute by Cambridge University Press and appears three times a year, plus one supplement.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute is the Netherlands Research Institute and Graduate School on economic and social history. It has four main objectives: (1) to run coordinated national research programmes which will further raise the standard of Dutch research in this field; (2) to train Dutch postgraduate students in the skills demanded by modern research into economic and social history; (3) to help graduate students pursue their research projects through to the final doctorate; (4) to cooperate with a growing number of European universities in the training of a new generation of scholars, geared to international collaboration in research.
De Stichting Maatschappijgeschiedenis bestaat sinds 1969 en organiseert elke twee jaar een conferentie over een breed historisch thema, waarbij vertegenwoordigers van verschillende disciplines bijeen worden gebracht (website in Dutch).
Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis. Homepage of the Dutch journal of social history, with tables of contents and English summaries of articles.
The SocioSite is designed to get access to information and resources which are relevant for sociologists and other social scientists. It has been designed from a global point of view - it gives access to the world wide scene of social sciences. The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology resources on the Internet. The enormity and constantly changing nature of the Internet makes it impossible to develop a definitive and comprehensive listing. That's why the SocioSite will always be 'under construction'.
The World Wide Web Virtual Library of Labour and Business History. Excellent collection of links.
Nationaal Vakbonds Museum, the national museum of trade unions in Amsterdam. Only little information in English.
Jan Lucassen, In Search of Work in Europe, 1800-2000 . Online article on the growth of wage labour.
Steun! Stem! Staak! 150 Dutch social and political posters from the collections of the IISH, 1870 - 1998 (in Dutch).
Art to the people Online exhibition by the IISH of prints, cartoons and posters by Walter Crane, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Albert Hahn, Frans Masereel and Gerd Arntz.
De rode droom . The Red Vision. A century of Dutch Social-Democracy (Dutch only).
Immigrants in the Netherlands 1860-1960. A research project at Amsterdam University carried out by Leo Lucassen and others into the determinants of the settlement process among immigrants and their descendants in the Netherlands between 1860 and 1960.
Excellent site with a extensive project description, bibliographies, on line papers, announcements, and links.
Repatriering en Emigratie van Indische Nederlanders. Experiences pf former colonists returning to the Netherlands after the independence of Indonesia (in Dutch).
Leidenaars uit 1581, namen en vermogens
Belastingkohier Leiden, 1742. Information and an online database of the Leiden tax register of 1742 (in Dutch).
Belastingkohier Leiden, 1748. Information and an online database of the Leiden tax register of 1748 (in Dutch).
Leidse Netwerken; De Leidse elite en haar bestuursfuncties van verenigingen in 1900. The Leiden elite of 1900 (in Dutch).
De Dom Digitaal - Leendert, een 'ellendigh weeskynd' uit Utrecht. The story of a poor orphan in Utrecht (in Dutch).
Van boef naar gedetineerde. A short history of punishment (in Dutch).
Vrij van Slavernij. Op deze site kunt u zoeken naar namen van vrijgelaten slaven en hun eigenaren op Curaçao en onderhorigheden voordat daar in 1863 de slavernij werd afgeschaft.

Biographies en genealogy

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Demography and family history

NIDI - Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute is an independent institute engaged in the scientific study of population. Research carried out at NIDI aims to contribute to the description, analysis, explanation or prediction of demographic trends in the past, the present and the future. Also the determinants and consequences of these trends for society in general, and policy in particular are studied. NIDI research is characterized by its interdisciplinary approach and international orientation.
Excellent website with extensive information on research projects, abstracts of publications, many links, tables of contents, staff, and so on, and so forth. The periodical Demos is availabe on line (in Dutch).
Immigrants in the Netherlands 1860-1960. A research project at Amsterdam University carried out by Leo Lucassen and others into the determinants of the settlement process among immigrants and their descendants in the Netherlands between 1860 and 1960.
Excellent site with a extensive project description, bibliographies, on line papers, announcements, and links.
The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) is a European research centre with a strong interest in comparative research in the fields of international migration, ethnic relations, racism and ethnic conflict within the European context. It is based at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
With online publications and abstracts (some historical), links and announcements.
The History of International Migration at Leiden University offers a broad historical overview of international migration, links and other resources. Maintained by H.L.M. Obdeijn.
The History of Education and Childhood. An international archive of links and source materials on the history of education & the history of childhood.
This is probably one of the best sites in the historical field with many (evaluated) links, online articles and other resources.
Volkstellingen van Weesp, 1807 en 1849. Data from two population censuses in a small town in Holland (in Dutch).
Digitale Bronbewerkingen Nederland en België . A huge list of links, mainly directed at genealogical research.
Familieberichten en bidprentjes. Links to data from or images of personal announcements (in Dutch).
The Section for Family History(Genealogy) of the Center for Research on Dutch Jewry. With the Dutch Jewish Genealogical Data Base (the DJGDB).

Gender and women's history

WWW-VL Women's History. For much more links on (Dutch) women's history. Maintained by Jenneke Quast of the International Institute of Social History.
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History. An excellent bibliography maintained by Jenneke Quast of the International Institute of Social History.
Kenau, discussion list on women's history in Belgium and the Netherlands.
The Foundation for Early Modern Women's History - SVVT. The purpose of the Foundation to survey research activities in early modern women's history (1500-1800), to stimulate research in the field and to exchange information, and to stimulate national and international contacts between students of early modern women's history.
International Information centre and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV). The IIAV is the national centre of expertise in the Netherlands, providing information on the position of women and women's studies. The IIAV's uniqueness and comprehensiveness dates back to 1935. The IIAV preserves the cultural legacy of women in the past and the present and provides actual information on the position of women.
Excellent site with links and online access to catalogues, databases with primary-source materials, and so on.
The Dutch Association for Women's History (VVG) is open for all those who are interested in, or partake in the study of, the history of women and gender. Its aim is to develop, stimulate and coordinate activities and research in this field. The Dutch pages offer more information, such as conferences and tables of content of periodicals like Historica and the Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis.
Belle van Zuylen Instituut is the research institute for women's studies of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. The site is not regularly maintained.
Centrum voor Vrouwenstudies Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen Netherlands. The web page of the Documentation Department contains information about the Centre and it's collection, and provides links to the OPC of the Katholic University of Nijmegen and to external women's studies webpages.
The well-being of mother and child: Dutch obstetrics and gynaecology 1775 - 1925 . A short description of an exposition of the University Library of Amsterdam (UBA).
Nationale tentoonstelling vrouw en arbeid 1898-1998, online exposition at the IIAV on women's labour in the 20th century (in Dutch).

Cultural history

Huizinga Instituut. The network of Dutch cultural historians.
Rudolf Agricola Instituut - Homepage Dutch
Constantijn Huygens Instituut.
The short History of the Dutch Language is established by the department of Dutch Studies of the University of Vienna. Although the website is thought as a teaching project, the result is quite readable as a first introduction into the history of Dutch.
Leescultuur in de negentiende eeuw. Interesting site on 19th-century reading culture.
Iconografie van de leescultuur in de negentiende eeuw. Interesting site on 19th-century reading culture with a special emphasis on pictural representation.
UBA - tentoonstelling Drukken van Steen
Homepage Ceneton, Universiteit Leiden
Heroides Nederlandicae
Welkom bij de Nederlandse Taalunie
Haus der Niederlande
Cultuurbescherming Home Page

History of religion

The Historical Documentation Centre for Dutch Protestantism (1800 to the present day). The Historical Documentation Centre for Dutch Protestantism (founded in 1971) is a research institute of the Vrije Universiteit and focuses on the history of Protestantism in the Netherlands from 1800 to the present day.
This extensive website includes an archive inventary, bibliographical information and links.
Center for Research on Dutch Jewry is part of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The website contains online publications, biobliographical information and The Dutch Jewish Genealogical Data Base.
KDC - History of Dutch Catholicism was set up by the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1969. Its objectives are to preserve, collect and make accessible of documentation on catholic life in the Netherlands from the beginning of the nineteenth century up to the present day, and to promote research and publications about historical and present developments in Dutch Catholicism.
The website is excellent and offers an outline of the history of Dutch Catholicism, an inventory of archival resources, online access to a specialised library, abstacts of recent publications and much more.
Landelijk Archief van de Nederlands Gereformeerde Kerken. Website in Dutch with information on archives. A short overview (in Dutch) on the history of the Nederlandse Gereformeerde Kerken is also available.
Pilgrims in Leiden. Short information on the famous Pilgrimfathers during their stay in Leiden.
Kerkelijk documenten. Online religious documents by the Catholic Church.
Museum Catharijneconvent. The website of the Utrecht based museum on the history of Christian culture in the Netherlands. Website with some online images.
Jewish Historical Museum is dedicated to the history of the Jews in the Netherlands.
The website is well designed and offers among other things an online database of images and library catalogue, a collection of links and an overview of the history of the Dutch Jewish communities.
The Anne Frank House. Website with information on the house, biographical data on Anne Frank and parts of her famous diary.

Anthropological history

Meertens Instituut, established in 1926, documents and investigates the diversity of Dutch culture and language. The two main areas of research are ethnology (e.g. feasts and rituals, religious culture, oral culture, and material culture) and linguistics (phonologic, morphological and synyactic variety; topology). It houses huge collections of ethnologic and linguistic information and a library, organises conferences and seminars, and publishes various monographs and serials. Particularly relavant for historians is the Volkskundig Bulletin. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse cultuurwetenschap, a journal of ethnology.
Website with information (among other things) on research projects, online databases on etnographic themes (names, ), publications and links.

About the Dutch History Index

The Dutch History Index is made of different pages which are always under construction. You will find Virtual Resources produced in the Netherlands together with world-wide resources dealing with Dutch history.

The URL of this page is [http://home.planet.nl/~nijs0104/www-vl-neth/Index.html].

The Dutch History Index was created September 2000.

About the WWW VL and the WWW VL History Network

The World Wide Web Virtual Library is a collection of subject related Websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject. The project is now managed by an independent committee made up of maintainers of various subject areas. For more information on the WWW VL Main Project, go to [ http://www.vlib.org/AboutVL.html ] and for more information on the History Network Project, go to [ http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/about/about.html ]

About the Maintainer

The site is managed by Thimo de Nijs [Thimo.de.Nijs@planet.nl].
Please direct your notices of new URL's or inoperative links to him here.

Last updated the 29th of January 2001.