Republished with permission. Introduction chapters of the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf of the book click here.
Full index of the book with links to each chapter see below.
Section One: Dutch Maritime history in Australia
Chapter 2 Aboriginals and Shipwrecks – The arrival of Australia’s first immigrants
Chapter 3 Anthropological analyses of human skeletal remains associated with the Batavia Mutiny
Chapter 5 – The Diamond Mystery
Chapter 6 The Dutch Turn Up Down Under
Chapter 7 – The remarkable defence: Shell tanker Ondina
Chapter 8 – Operation Potschot: Dutch airmen in the defence of Western Australia, 1944
Chapter 11 – Through the looking glass: an Australian War Bride writes home
Including chapter 12: Johanna Bruce – Nee Herklots and family 1850-1917
Chapter 13 – A Dutch Socialist connection with WA
Chapter 14 – Dutch socialist pioneer links with Dutch literary giants
Chapter 15 – Fremantle: First step to a new future
Chapter 16 – Leaving from the Netherlands
Chapter 17 – The Hervormde Kerk in Perth
Chapter 18 – The Boomerang Youth Club Perth
Chapter 19 – The Free Reformed Community in Western Australia
Chapter 20 – Double Dutch – the Dutch language in Western Australia
Chapter 21 – Roller Coaster Migrants
Chapter 22 – Ticket to a new life
Chapter 23 – Making a Dutch home in Western Australia in the 1950s
Chapter 24 – Migration Impressions – Reflections
Chapter 25 – Between two world : second generation Dutch migrants in Western Australia
Including chapter 26 – Dutch labour in Western Australia
Chapter 27 – Emigration: My story – Peter Rietveld
Chapter 28 – The migration experience of the Woerlee Family
Chapter 29 – The Plug Family Business
Chapter 30 – The Doorhouse
Chapter 31 – The Dutch in business: the high-end of town
Section Five 21st Century Dutch Interests
Including chapter 32 – A sense of place: being Dutch in Western Australia
Chapter 33 – The history of Dutch clubs in Perth – WA 1950s-2016
Chapter 34 – The Dutch school ‘De Schakel’
Chapter 35 – Floating: an exhibition of artworks at the Fremantle arts centre by Dutch Australians
Chapter 36 – The photography of Richard Woldendorp
Chapter 37 – Our Mob: Shipwrecks survivors and WA Aboriginal Peoples
Chapter 38 – Tracing your Dutch ancestors in the National Archives of Australia
