Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 137, Issue 1, 2024

Abstract Mission and imperial culture. Three Khoekhoe Christians as colonial spectacles in the early nineteenth century In 1803 three converted Khoekhoe Christians named Johannes, Maria, and Martha travelled with the Dutch missionary Johannes Jacobus Kicherer from the Cape Colony to Europe, where they were presented to the Dutch public as the first missionary success of the Dutch Missionary Society. The promotional Read More

Abstract Weather talk. The public breakthrough of weather forecasts in the Netherlands, 1930-1950 When did weather forecasts become a part of everyday life? In this paper I argue that the period from 1930 to 1950 was crucial in the development of public weather forecasts in the Netherlands – more than half a century after the introduction of scientific weather forecasts c.1880. This period saw a change in the sci Read More

Abstract Our Sasha is gone. The loss of a promising prince during the Year of Revolution, 1848 Prince Alexander (1818-1848) was the second son of King Willem II of the Netherlands and younger brother to King Willem III. Commonly believed to have suffered from poor health for most of his life, he succumbed to tuberculosis at the tender age of 29. Or so the story goes. As it turns out, Alexander was much more than an insignific Read More