Netherlands

Exile to the Netherlands following the First World War chastened Kaiser Wilhelm II, but Robin Bruce Lockhart cannot believe that the former ruler of imperial Germany was ever either the mountebank, or the monster, which his biographers have tried to make him.

W.R. Jeudwine accounts for the patrons, masters and masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance

C.R. Boxer profiles the naval adventures of the Netherlands' Tromp family - a thorn in the side of mid-17th century English maritime activity.

The future emperor was born on August 31st, AD 12.

Jos Damen tells the stories of two unusual men who lived a century apart in the Dutch colony at Elmina in West Africa; a poet who became a tax inspector and a former slave who argued that slavery did not contradict ideas of Christian freedom.

A peace conference held in Holland in 1899 in fact ended by rewriting the laws of war, says Geoffrey Best.

Rowena Hammal explains why the United Provinces enjoyed a ‘Golden Age’ in the first half of the Seventeenth Century.

Nick Pelling suggests that credit should go not to the Netherlands but much further south to Catalonia.

Geoffrey Parker considers the far-reaching consequences of a sudden change of plan by the king of Spain in 1567.

Graham Darby explains how and why the creation of the Dutch state preceded the existence of Dutch national feeling.

Paul Doolan describes the unique 400-year-long trading, intellectual and artistic contacts between the Dutch and the Japanese.

Stewart MacDonald introduces the humanist scholar whose writings made him one of the most significant figures of 16th-century Europe.  

Jan Herman Brinks examines the Dutch myth of resistance and finds collaboration with the Nazis went right to the top.