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Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first audiobook to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is also so significant and so fascinating. 

‘Astonishing … A work of moral courage’ BRIAN ENO ‘Affecting … beautifully written’ GUARDIAN ‘An important work’ AFUA HIRSCH ‘Remarkable’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS ‘A book of extraordinary moral clarity’ NATHAN THRALL A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of...

Bloomsbury presents Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman, read by Boris Hiestand and Rutger Bregman. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE SUMMER 2025 __________ 'A fierce and brilliant call to arms for anyone who has been wondering whether there's more to life. (There is.) Bregman...

‘A brilliant and challenging book’ GORDON BROWN From the founder of Britain’s leading antifascist organisation, HOPE not hate, this is an urgent call to resist the forces of extremism on the march in Western societies – and how to go about it. If you’re shocked and disconcerted by the...

Taking listeners beyond the stereotypical images of windmills, clogs, and tulips, this audio guide helps visitors understand the complex layers of identity in this small, densely populated country on Europe's northwestern seaboard. With roots as a maritime nation that built a network for transportation, defense, and trade, the Netherlands of today is still a prime economic hub of Europe. The Netherlands is also famous for its liberal attitudes, recently challenged by high levels of immigration, and is home to an intelligent, cosmopolitan, enterprising, tolerant, and modest people.

‘I suspect that in ten years’ time, we’ll look back at the study of slavery and try to remember what it was like before we’d heard of the Sandbach Tinne dynasty. That we’ll struggle to imagine how we tried to understand Britain’s involvement in slavery and the slave trade without...

The Netherlands: a small country that shaped the modern world. From the revolt against Spanish Habsburg rule to the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, this show traces the rise of a trading empire that pioneered global capitalism, built vast colonial networks, and fostered an unprecedented culture of artistic and scientific innovation. Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the polders and canals of Dutch history, examining how a nation of merchants, sailors, and painters transformed from a rebel province into a maritime superpower. Episodes delve into the Eighty Years' War, the Dutch East ...

Plan holidays with kids in the Netherlands with less hassle! We cover all the regions across The Netherlands and aim to find the best locations for you to visit !

This show is a slow, ground-level guide to a country that is mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed polder. Travelling here means moving through a dense western Randstad, quieter northern provinces and the delta of the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt. The landscape is unmistakably Dutch: flat, wet, engineered and lived in. Over the first year the host settles in Amsterdam, then moves outward to Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. Later episodes reach Fryslân, where Frisian is an official language, the Zeeland delta, and the hills of South Limburg in the southeast — places beyond the Randstad tourist ...

We invite you to come explore the eclectic city of Amsterdam, and see what surprises you! Passport to European Travel Guides offers this comprehensive, yet quick and concise, five-day guide to Amsterdam - one of Europe's most visited cities!

The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they intended to be overseas the tolerant, pluralistic, and antimilitaristic people they thought themselves to be - and in so many respects were - at home, but they were not.

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This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VII include the stories from the Nibelungen saga of the Germans, masterpieces of the Dutch Painters and the famous apple-shooting episode from Schiller's drama William Tell. - Summary by Sonia Cast list for ...

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Between 1956 and 1984, thousands of unmarried, pregnant women in the Netherlands were forced to give their babies away. This podcast discovers this dark chapter of Dutch history by hearing the experience of the women as well as the children. Furthermore, legal experts and historians will explain the social situation during that time in order to give attention to the injustice that has been done to Dutch women and their children for decades. Please support us by listening and sharing this podcast - so the afstandsmoeders and children can finally get the justice they deserve.Producer and ...

A podcast about transfomation and identity, through a series of interviews with participants from South Africa and the Netherlands. This podcasts is supported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the Consulate General in South Africa through their #cocreateSANL initiative. This podcast is hosted by writer and journalist Fred de Vries.

Space for Food Security, does it work? The use of digital data as an information source for farming practices has made giant leaps forwards, driven by both innovative remote sensing technologies and the exponential growth of the use of eg. mobile phones and local access to information. With climate change in action, can access to information services help farmers to adapt, and adjust their practices to the demands of this changing world and a changing climate? In a three part podcast series produced by the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) we ask ourselves: does it actually work? In this first ...