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Resources the Netherlands

We found a selection of articles, websites and other links with information about important organisations and institutions of Holland.

 

Netherlands

  • Geheugen van Nederland 'The Memory of the Netherlands' is a project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands. The website contains digitized materials from Dutch archives, libraries and museums. The International Institute of Social History contributes six thousand photographs, prints, posters and banners documenting the Dutch labour movement from 1860 through 1918.

Discussion Lists


Associations and Societies


Research Institutions

  • Amsterdams Centrum voor de studie van de Gouden Eeuw General information, research, activities.
  • Civil Services and Urban Communities Research project Civil Services and Urban Communities The Netherlands 1500-1800.
  • Economy and Society of the Low Countries in the Pre-industrial Period This research program, sponsored by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, unites Dutch and Flemish historians studying the economy and society of the Low Countries before 1850. On the site: program and papers.
  • Groningen Growth and Development Centre General information, list of publications and working papers (some downloadable).
  • Indonesian Economic History Project This project at the International Ibnstitute of Social History, Amsterdam is a concerted effort of several researchers at different universities and research institutions. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the national accounts of Java (1815-1939) and of Indonesia (1900-2000) and to analyze the long-term evolution of the economy of Indonesia in this period. The reconstructed national accounts will serve as the prime source of information about the economy's development over time. This provides an analytical framework for a more thorough understanding of changes and discontinuities in the economic performance of Indonesia.
  • Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (ING) The site has links to the VOC publications and activities, the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland and the databases 'Beschrijvend Bronnenmateriaal van de Bataafs-Franse tijd', 'Dutch entries in the pound-toll registers of Elbing 1585-1700' and 'Gewestelijke financiën ten tijde van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden', data on the provincial finances during the Republic.
  • N.W. Posthumus Instituut (Groningen), the Netherlands Research Institute and Graduate School for Economic and Social History.
  • Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg General information.
  • Urban Society in the Low Countries IUAP-Network - Urban Society in the Low Countries from the Late Middle Ages to the XVIth Century. Participants: Ghent University (UGent) - University of Antwerp (UA) - University of Leiden - Free University of Brussels (ULB) - Royal Library (KBR).


Archives and Libraries


Reference


Data Archives

  • Boedelbank van het Meertensinstituut Dutch Probate Inventories on the web.
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): the Dutch organization responsible for storing and providing permanent access to research data from the Humanities and Social Sciences. It incorporates the Steinmetz Archive for the social sciences and the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA), which were part of NIWI (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services) from 1997 to 2005.
  • Historical Sample of the Netherlands offers a representative sample of about 80 000 people born in the Netherlands during the period 1812-1922. It is a unique tool for research in Dutch history and demography.
  • Netherlands Historical Data Archive (The Hague). Collections information.
  • Rotterdam-Antwerp. A century and a half of Port Competition The aim of this project was to investigate different variables that influence competition between these ports and their overall effect on cargo flows. In order to be able to determine the importance of these variables a large database was constructed containing the flow of cargo in both ports. This database is available for other researchers on maritime and port history, but can also be used for statistical analysis by economists and policy makers. The Antwerp database can be found at the Workshop in Quantitative Economic History site.
  • Uitgevaren voor de Kamers Database concerning the passengers and the crews of ships of the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) which departed to the Dutch East Indies between 1700-1794. At present 50.000 names, all from the town of Delft, are available.


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