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Documents, Data Files, Primary Literature
- Digital version of the Atlas van der Hagen (1690) and the Atlas Beudeker (1750).
- Source for research into the life and art of the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Searchable by source, date, name, area, and keyword.
- A collection of images documenting the history of Northern Holland, a province of the Netherlands, from the 1500's to the present.
- Scanned images include maps, photographs, etchings, and picture post cards.
- Leiden University Library resource for the study of the military history of the Low Countries; contains extensive secondary and primary sources.
- Searchable database of the correspondence of William of Orange with links to images of over 12,000 individual letters written between 1551-1584.
- Large collection of digitized maps contains several historical maps for Belgium and the Netherlands.
- Extensive archive of datasets, particularly relating to demography and genealogy in the Low Countries.
- Some topics are passenger lists, provincial history, tax registers, and marriage registers.
- Tables and analysis resulting from the research program "Reconstructing National Accounts of the Netherlands," which studied the development of the Dutch economy 1800-1940.
- Facsimiles of forbidden newspapers in the Netherlands, 1940-1945.
- An anonymous FTP site for historical texts and data sets produced by researchers at the University of Groningen.
- Includes a searchable database of biographical information for about 850 merchants (1578-1630) and prospective immigrants around 1585.
- Database containing the results of an exhaustive, critical survey of medieval narrative texts from the Southern Low Countries; database runs on SilverPlatter and has over 1500 bibliographic records; a project of the University of Ghent and the Catholic University of Leuven.
- An searchable and downloadable archive of historical research results and data sets relating to the Netherlands.
- The archive is a product of the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI).
- Topics include colonial, cultural, economic, social, and art history, criminal justice, shipping and trade, prosopography, and taxes.
- Users need to register.
- A database of over 50,000 records of 18th century Dutch ships that sailed through the Danish Sound to Baltic countries.
- A postgraduate project from the Rijksuniversteit Leiden.
- Full-text of the 1790 declaration of independence for Flanders.
- Transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.
- Transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.
- An Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis project with the full text of Prinsterer's posthumous papers.
- Texts of different versions of the Dutch national anthem, including video of the signed version.
Reference Works and Gateways
- Guide to the City of Amsterdam, its government, museums, historic buildings and sites.
- Bibliographic database indexing more than 75,000 scholarly social science publications concerning the Low Countries, published since 1978.
- Information about the The Dutch Underground Press, 1940-1945: Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation Microfiche Collection, a collection of 1,831 microfiche documenting the Dutch resistance to German occupation during W.W.II.
- See also full-text Dutch underground press facsimiles listed above.
- From the University of Leiden.
- Over 3,000 history related links and information about Dutch organizations concerned with the study of history.
- Bibliography of 20th century Dutch biographical sources.
- A searchable glossary of terms relating to the Dutch East India Company; developed by the Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis.
Libraries, Archives, Collections
- Searchable database of archive websites.
- Choose Belgium, the Netherlands, or the world.
- A documentation and information centre for family history and heraldry in the Netherlands.
- Contains the Business Archive Register of the Netherlands and a major book collection.
- National Archive of the Netherlands.
- Search archive holdings and the new "Emancipation Database," a database of freed slaves and slave owners in Surinam.
Research, Educational and Cultural Organizations
- Official site for the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam.
- Information about exhibits, the diary, and educational material.
- At the Catholic University of Nijmegen.
- Institute for Dutch History.
- Information about the Institute's collections, research projects, exhibitions.
- Information on the history of Dutch Catholicism.
- Royal Dutch Historical Society; table of contents database for Kroniek, a bibliography of writings about Dutch history, 1994-1998.
- Museum van de Vaderlandse Geschiedenis
- A virtual museum of primary and secondary sources, photographs, maps, music and more; created by the University of Nijmegen.
- An searchable and downloadable archive of historical research results and data sets relating to the Netherlands.
- The archive is a product of the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI).
- Topics include colonial, cultural, economic, social, and art history, criminal justice, shipping and trade, prosopography, and taxes.
- Users need to register.
- Aim is to transcribe, translate, and publish all Dutch documents in New York repositories.
- Netherlands' largest collection of art and history.
- Society for Dutch Archaeology, recently assimilated into Erfgoed Nederland, an organization for Dutch heritage in general.
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