Historical story

• Public book Holocaust does not live up to expectations

  They dont hurt us is the latest public book about the persecution and deportation of Jews during the Second World War. The International Holocaust Remembrance (27/1) is always a good reason for a book on this subject. The authors wrote it because we are beginning to forget what excluding and threate

• Rise of the poet's image during the Romantic era

  “I am fashionable these days and wanted as a pair of orange gloves”, wrote the young poet Nicolaas Beets in 1835. The image of famous Dutch poets from the nineteenth century is in the spotlight during the fifth edition of Poetry Week. A comparison with the popular contemporary writer Herman Brusselm

• Jesus as a piss looker not meant as blasphemy

  It looks laughable:Jesus looking like a piss-eyed man. We are familiar with the doctor as a quack in farcical paintings from the Golden Age, but the doctor as a Jesus figure is much less known. Yet it was a serious theme in painting for centuries. Since the late Middle Ages, the urine bottle or uri

• Silence around German women

  Rosie the Riveter. Who is not familiar with the iconic image of the American factory worker with her fresh headscarf and clenched fist? But the Nazis also turned out to lure women to the war industry with beautiful propaganda images. What is the German memory of the role of women in the Second Wor

• Broad interest in language in the sixteenth century

  The first dictionaries and grammars of Dutch appeared in the sixteenth century. This is often attributed to a growing national consciousness. But the Dutch at that time were not only interested in the Dutch vernacular, but also in other languages. This is apparent from research by Alisa van de Haar,

• The young William

  The Revolt against Spanish rule started 450 years ago in the Netherlands. The National Military Museum commemorates this with an exhibition about the young Willem van Oranje Nassau. New research shows how Willem was able to become the father of the country. The exhibition Willem tells the story of

• Legacy of Roman Love Poetry

  Is thinking today the same as it was thousands of years ago? Not according to David Rijser. He looks at the representation of reflection in ancient literature and more recent art in the theme booklet for the Week of the Classics. Our image of the pensive philosopher is culturally determined and not

• The investigation behind the new exhibition Dutchmen in Paris, 1789 - 1914 in Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

  Dutch artists did not just follow their French examples. Art historian Mayken Jonkman shows how extensive and important the mutual influence of artists in Paris was. Her research results can now be seen in the exhibition Dutch Artists in Paris 1789 – 1914. Is there anything new to be found about gr

• The music repertoire of eighteenth-century bell-playing chefs

  In the eighteenth century, many wealthy families had a bell-playing clock at home:a clock that played a fixed melody every hour. Marieke Lefeber, curator of Museum Speelklok in Utrecht, conducted PhD research into the music repertoire. We made an appointment for the interview in Museum Speelklok, w

• Traveling with Darwin

  More than 175 years after Charles Darwin made his famous voyage on the sailing ship the Beagle, his travelogue is being reissued. Many of his special observations are depicted in this fully illustrated version. This way you can see for yourself where Darwin got the insights for his famous theory of

• We owe genital herpes to this hominin

  Genital herpes is one of the most common STDs in the Netherlands. Who was the first patient to pass this sexually transmitted disease to our ancestors? British scientists think they have found the answer. They assign the humanoid Paranthropus boisei as guilty. When and how the first human ancestor

• Wooden construction points to large-scale fishing in Stone Age Almere

  In the soil of Almere, a wooden fish trap construction of about 4500 years old has been discovered. It is the largest New Stone Age fishing weather ever found in Europe. The inhabitants of that time had a permanent residence and were already working according to a plan, thinks Willem-Jan Hogestijn,

• Computer models calculate Dutch assembly points in antiquity

  In ancient times, there were at least about twenty trading centers in the Netherlands that supplied Roman army bases. PhD student Mark Groenhuijzen made this discovery using computer models. To protect their vast empire from incursions from enemy tribes, the Romans maintained a massive defense line

• Review of the Young Scientist Science Calendar 2019

  It is not a book in the classic sense, but there is a lot to read and learn in the Young Scientist Science Calendar 2019. A fine collection of facts, experiments and jokes from all kinds of different fields. My seven-year-old daughter was a little too young for the 2018 version, but we used the You

• Ruins turn out to be a big city in South Africa

  Archaeologist Karim Sadr discovered a forgotten large city near Johannesburg, South Africa. The investigation is still in full swing, but NEMO Kennislink is talking to him about his findings so far via a cracking telephone line. There are a lot of ruins in the Suikerbosrand nature reserve near Joha

• For in the shoe or under the Christmas tree

  Sinterklaas arrives in the Netherlands on Saturday. The editors of NEMO Kennislink investigated which popular science childrens books are worth adding to the wish list. We will continue to add to the list in the coming weeks. From four years A very quick history of everything The whole soup mess. T

• Revolution attempt November 1918:Troelstra was wrong…

  A century ago, the leader of the Social Democratic Workers Party (SDAP) claimed power in the House of Representatives. This attempt at revolution by Pieter Jelles Troelstra, however, failed within a week and has gone down in the history books as Troelstras mistake. But Troelstra was by no means the

• Artists on the Battlefields of the First World War

  Many publications have already been published about the First World War, but an overview of artist soldiers was still lacking. A new book shows the effects of this war on the artists and their work. Most did not return and only live on in their war art. Exactly one hundred years ago, the First Worl

• chocolate

  Cocoa was domesticated much earlier than we thought, and not by the Mayans. This points to research into old cocoa residues. The Mayo-Chinchipe people from Ecuador already cultivated the cocoa tree 5300 years ago. It is important evidence that agriculture also existed in ancient cultures in the rain

• Review Greek heroes of BoekieBoekie

  Does your child love stories but find ordinary books boring quickly? Then Greek heroes is a must. It is full of drawings, some of which were also made by children. They bring the stories of Greek gods and exciting adventures of heroes to life. There are plenty of childrens books that deal with hist