On October 27, 1275, Count Floris V of Holland issued a toll exemption to the village of Amsterdam as compensation... more

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

We chat with comedian and author Greg Shapiro a.k.a. The American Netherlander a.k.a. the voice of Donald Trump in the... more

They both lived during the Dutch Golden Age, grew up in Leiden, were taught by the same painter, shared a... more

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

We meet Simon Gronowski, a 92 year old jazz pianist, lawyer and Holocaust survivor. At the age of eleven, Simon... more

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

We dig up the bulbs of the past, trim the stems of historical myth and hopefully emerge with a lustrous... more

Long time listeners will be aware that, alongside being passionate about the history of our boggy swamp, we also carry... more

At the end of episode 49, we said that we were going to move away from the political part of... more