Dutch Studies

The Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent.

Searchable database of the correspondence of William of Orange with links to images of over 12,000 individual letters written between 1551-1584.

Large collection of digitized maps contains several historical maps for Belgium and the Netherlands.

Extensive archive of datasets, particularly relating to demography and genealogy in the Low Countries.
Some topics are passenger lists, provincial history, tax registers, and marriage registers.

Leiden University Library resource for the study of the military history of the Low Countries; contains extensive secondary and primary sources.

Facsimiles of forbidden newspapers in the Netherlands, 1940-1945.

Transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.

Huygens ING is the leading research institute in the field of history and culture.

An searchable and downloadable archive of historical research results and data sets relating to the Netherlands.
Topics include colonial, cultural, economic, social, and art history, criminal justice, shipping and trade, prosopography, and taxes. Users need to register.

Guide to the City of Amsterdam, its government, museums, historic buildings and sites.

Over 3,000 history related links and information about Dutch organizations concerned with the study of history.

A searchable glossary of terms relating to the Dutch East India Company; developed by the Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis.

A documentation and information centre for family history and heraldry in the Netherlands.

The National Archives of the Netherlands (Nationaal Archief), which is situated in The Hague, holds over 3.5 million records that have been created by the central government, organisations and individuals and are of national significance. Many records relate to the colonial and trading history of the Netherlands in the period from 1600 to 1975

Official site for the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam.
Information about exhibits, the diary, and educational material.

At the Catholic University of Nijmegen.

Information on the history of Dutch Catholicism.

For more than three decades, the New Netherland Institute (NNI) has helped cast light on America’s long-neglected Dutch roots. Created in 1986 as the Friends of the New Netherland Project, it has supported the transcription, translation, and publication of the 17th-century Dutch colonial records held by the New York State Archives and State Library.

The Netherlands' largest collection of art and history.

Royal Dutch Historical Society; table of contents database for Kroniek, a bibliography of writings about Dutch history, 1994-1998.

Extensive archive of datasets, particularly relating to demography and genealogy in the Low Countries.
Some topics are passenger lists, provincial history, tax registers, and marriage registers.

Transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.

Archives in Belgium.