A new book has been published about the doomed fate of the VOC ship the Batavia in 1629. In this case the historical story forms the background to fiction through the eyes of 9 year old Dutch girl Mayken. Read the review of ”The Night Ship” by Jess Kidd as published in the Australian Weekend (by Jack Stanton).
This in-depth military study by Major Rene W. A. van den Berg of the Royal Netherlands Army explores the rise and rapid collapse of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM), the first multinational Allied command in the Read more…
By Peter Reynders First published by the Dutch Courier in July 2025 With the recent name change of the Mexican Gulf, it became even more interesting to me to look at the process of some Read more…
nijntje, known in English as miffy, is a character created by Dutch children’s author and illustrator Dick Bruna (1927-2017). She is a white rabbit with human characteristics who lives in the Netherlands. The first nijntje/miffy Read more…