History of the Netherlands

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History of the Netherlands

History of the Netherlands

ຜູ້ສ້າງ: Republic of Amsterdam Radio

The incredible journey of the world’s most influential swamp and those who call it home. Beginning at the end of the last ice age and trekking all the way through to the modern era, together we step through the centuries and meet some of the cast of characters who fashioned and forged a boggy marshl...

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BONUS: Waterland's Rampjaar Refugees with Loek Zoon

BONUS: Waterland's Rampjaar Refugees with Loek Zoon

On June 12, 1672 the Dutch republic was attacked on all sides by France, England and the bishoprics of Cologne and Münster. Within a month, three of t...

2025-08-05 05:04:00 2187
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BONUS: LGBTQ+ history of the Netherlands with Elyzabeth Gorman

BONUS: LGBTQ+ history of the Netherlands with Elyzabeth Gorman

We sit down with Elyzabeth Gorman, storyteller-in-chief of Badass Tours, to talk about LGBTQ+ history of the Netherlands. Quite the badass herself, El...

2025-06-18 03:50:00 3702
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54 - The Widowed Bride

54 - The Widowed Bride

After Prince Juan’s death in 1497, Margaret of Austria spent almost two years in mourning in Spain, being treated with empathy and kindness by the Cat...

2025-04-27 20:00:00 3510
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Bonus: Decolonising the AfricaMuseum with Bart Ouvry

Bonus: Decolonising the AfricaMuseum with Bart Ouvry

We sit down with Bart Ouvry, managing director of AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, Belgium, to speak about the challenges he faces attempting to decolonise a...

2024-12-23 01:12:00 2901
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53 - Clinker to Carvel (and how to shove sphagnum into wood)

53 - Clinker to Carvel (and how to shove sphagnum into wood)

We dumbly delve into the deep and desolate doldrums that define trying to understand the growth and development of Dutch shipbuilding in the late 15th...

2024-12-09 00:38:00 3389
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BONUS: Amsterdam 750 with Erik Schmitz from Amsterdam City Archive

BONUS: Amsterdam 750 with Erik Schmitz from Amsterdam City Archive

On October 27, 1275, Count Floris V of Holland issued a toll exemption to the village of Amsterdam as compensation for damage caused by his troops. Th...

2024-11-11 03:55:00 2584
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52 - Draining the Swamp Part 2: Too Drained, Too Furious

52 - Draining the Swamp Part 2: Too Drained, Too Furious

Between the years 1000 and 1500 CE the soggy, sphagnum filled bog lands of the western Low Countries were terraformed to support human habitation and,...

2024-10-13 20:00:00 3529
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BONUS: Getting to Know The American Netherlander

BONUS: Getting to Know The American Netherlander

We chat with comedian and author Greg Shapiro a.k.a. The American Netherlander a.k.a. the voice of Donald Trump in the "America First, the Netherlands...

2024-08-05 04:00:00 3480
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BONUS: Not Rembrandt

BONUS: Not Rembrandt

They both lived during the Dutch Golden Age, grew up in Leiden, were taught by the same painter, shared a studio, received all the praise, and painted...

2024-06-02 23:11:00 2788
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51 - The Lion and the Letter-Cutter

51 - The Lion and the Letter-Cutter

In the 1440s a goldsmith from Mainz called Johannes Gutenberg developed a movable type printing press which catalysed the European printing revolution...

2024-01-23 00:23:00 3988
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BONUS: Simon Gronowski's escape from the 20th Convoy

BONUS: Simon Gronowski's escape from the 20th Convoy

We meet Simon Gronowski, a 92 year old jazz pianist, lawyer and Holocaust survivor. At the age of eleven, Simon was locked in a cattle wagon with his...

2023-12-27 00:06:57 2320
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BONUS: Reformation in the Low Countries with Christine Kooi

BONUS: Reformation in the Low Countries with Christine Kooi

We chat with author and academic Christine Kooi, whose book Reformation in the Low Countries 1500-1620 was released last year by Cambridge University...

2023-11-20 04:14:00 4416
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BONUS: Tulips: the Myths, the Mania and the Man.

BONUS: Tulips: the Myths, the Mania and the Man.

We dig up the bulbs of the past, trim the stems of historical myth and hopefully emerge with a lustrous vase of understanding as to where the tulip ca...

2023-10-10 04:41:00 3146
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BONUS: The Best Possible War

BONUS: The Best Possible War

Long time listeners will be aware that, alongside being passionate about the history of our boggy swamp, we also carry a deep love for the game of cri...

2023-09-18 02:39:00 1594
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50 - The Granddaddy of Netherlandish Humanism

50 - The Granddaddy of Netherlandish Humanism

At the end of episode 49, we said that we were going to move away from the political part of the story of the History of the Netherlands for a while t...

2023-09-03 20:00:00 3494
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BONUS: Protests movements in the Low Countries

BONUS: Protests movements in the Low Countries

Just as much as Dutch and Flemish culture today have been defined by their ability to seek consensus through compromise, so too have they defined by a...

2023-06-18 21:21:00 4429
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BONUS: Sacrificial Pigs, Sexy Chickens and Scary Shipworms: Animals of the Low Countries

BONUS: Sacrificial Pigs, Sexy Chickens and Scary Shipworms: Animals of the Low Countries

What do black chickens have to do with witchcraft? Why were pigs not allowed to walk the streets freely in the Middle Ages? And should we welcome the...

2023-04-10 20:00:00 3321
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BONUS: A Traumatic Relationship with Water

BONUS: A Traumatic Relationship with Water

When the Netherlands and Belgium did not exist, people spoke of the Low Countries when referring to the area around the river deltas. Water has always...

2023-02-19 21:00:00 3757
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49 - The Willing Bride

49 - The Willing Bride

The double marriage between the Habsburg and Spanish dynasties organised in the creation of the Holy League in 1495 was part of a larger plan driven b...

2023-02-05 21:00:00 3944
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48 - Holy League, Holy Matrimony

48 - Holy League, Holy Matrimony

When French king Charles VIII laid claims to the Kingdom of Naples and invaded Italy in September, 1494, an anti-French coalition called the League of...

2023-01-22 21:00:00 3263
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47 - Philip Croit-Conseil

47 - Philip Croit-Conseil

When Philip the Handsome came of age and took over direct rule of the previously Burgundian, now Habsburg, territories of the Low Countries in Septemb...

2023-01-08 21:00:00 2957
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BONUS: Trailblazing Women from the Low Countries

BONUS: Trailblazing Women from the Low Countries

Throughout the history of the Low Countries, people from this part of the world have been pioneers in almost every sense of the word. Whether by seeki...

2022-11-21 04:14:00 3462
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46 - The Treaty of Senlis

46 - The Treaty of Senlis

In March 1492, the town burghers and knights of Guelders hailed Charles of Egmont as their duke, beginning a four decade period of bitter, contested c...

2022-10-23 20:00:00 3721
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BONUS: The Ninth Art: Flipping through the pages of comic history in the Low Countries

BONUS: The Ninth Art: Flipping through the pages of comic history in the Low Countries

We flip through the pages of comic history in the Low Countries; from the use of illustrated prints from as early as the 15th century to the position...

2022-09-18 20:00:00 4083
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BONUS: Tall Buildings in Low Places: Architecture in the Low Countries

BONUS: Tall Buildings in Low Places: Architecture in the Low Countries

We get out the drawing board, put on a hard hat and clamber up a scaffold of creative construction, so that we may cast our view on a few of the most...

2022-07-31 22:36:00 3016
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E09: Dividends

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E09: Dividends

What was that crazy story that we just told? How much of it really happened? What does it all mean for our understanding of rebellion and resistance,...

2022-07-24 20:00:00 2930
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E08: Living off the Law of the Land

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E08: Living off the Law of the Land

The VOC is back! Three and a half months after Commander Pelsaert abandoned everybody to a life a brutality and thirst, finally those who have managed...

2022-07-21 20:00:00 3620
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E07: Terra Hayesia

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E07: Terra Hayesia

In the history of European military aggression in Australia, this is where it all began. Of the people that remain alive following the doomed voyage o...

2022-07-17 20:00:00 2577
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E06: Bloody Oath

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E06: Bloody Oath

Upper Merchant Francisco Pelsaert, Captain Arjen Jacobsz and about 40 other people are sailing in a longboat north along the immense coast of Het Zuid...

2022-07-14 20:00:00 2860
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E05: Jewels and Money First

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E05: Jewels and Money First

As all hell breaks loose aboard the sinking ship Batavia, saving the lives of crew and passengers aboard may not be the most important priority. In th...

2022-07-10 20:00:00 2401
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E04: “Keep Your Eyes Open”

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E04: “Keep Your Eyes Open”

It should be fairly smooth sailing from here on for the Batavia... Were it not for the small matters of a brewing mutiny amidst the crew, divisions an...

2022-07-07 20:00:00 3024
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SWAPCAST: History Daily

SWAPCAST: History Daily

In the true Dutch mercantile spirit of trade and exchange, after having History of the Netherlands featured on History Daily, today we have handed ove...

2022-07-06 20:00:00 2619
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E03: Rites of Passage

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E03: Rites of Passage

Life on board a ship in the 1600s was no joyous experience. In this episode, we look at what the crew, soldiers and passengers aboard the Batavia went...

2022-07-03 20:00:00 3188
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E02: The Price of Spice

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E02: The Price of Spice

In an age when traditional European feudalism was breaking down, the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the world's first corporation. The...

2022-06-30 20:00:00 2070
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The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E01: A "Scents" of the Past

The Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia: E01: A "Scents" of the Past

In October, 1628, a merchant ship called Batavia set sail from the Dutch republic bound for an island on the other side of the world called Java. She...

2022-06-27 03:20:48 2000
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45 - The Surrender of Sluis

45 - The Surrender of Sluis

The final years of Philip of Cleves’ rebellion in Flanders saw the most famously fractious of Flemish cities, Ghent, flare into open revolt against Ha...

2022-06-05 20:00:00 3541
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44 - Hunger, Bread and Cheese

44 - Hunger, Bread and Cheese

The weariness that comes from decades of instability, war, economic turmoil and hardship really began to exact its toll on the Low Countries in the ea...

2022-05-02 02:42:00 3289
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43 - The Pirate Den of Sluis

43 - The Pirate Den of Sluis

When the treaty of Montils-lez-Tours was signed on October 30, 1489, “peace” was formally arranged between the French, the Habsburg ducal government u...

2022-04-17 20:00:00 2935
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BONUS: The Gods Must Be Crazy! Spiritualism and Religion in the Low Countries

BONUS: The Gods Must Be Crazy! Spiritualism and Religion in the Low Countries

We take a look at the growth and development of spirituality and religion in the Low Countries. From pagan tribalism to the rise and dominance of Cath...

2022-04-05 02:29:58 4666
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42 - Philip Cleaves, Maximilian Leaves

42 - Philip Cleaves, Maximilian Leaves

On May 16, 1488, Maximilian of Habsburg secured his release after more than three months of involuntary isolation in Bruges when he agreed to the so-c...

2021-12-12 21:00:00 4086
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