Giving a detailed account of the social history of The Hague’s most prominent sites of civilised leisure – the gentlemen’s clubs, the zoo, the Royal Theatre and the seaside resort of Scheveningen – Plaatsen van beschaafd ...

In his book Plaatsen van beschaafd vertier (Places of civilised pleasure) Furnée gives a picture of the social life of the well-to-do classes of The Hague in the nineteenth century. A pivotal insight is the crucial importance ...

During the German occupation of the Netherlands Dutch civilian prisons and jails were routinely used by German organisations such as the Sicherheitsdienst for the internment of political prisoners and occasionally Jewish ...

Anti-Semitism in the Dutch labour movement has not been studied sufficiently. This is certainly true with regard to Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis and the early socialist movement in the nineteenth century. However, we have ...