Blogs

There is a limited number of English language blogs. The complete overview can be found on the blog page in Dutch.

Efstathia Dionysopoulou

Small fragments talk, small fragments matter

Maquette designed by Paul Koek and Leo de Nijs for the décor for Gust, Theatergroep Hollandia, 1987. Photograph by Ernst Moritz. Allard Pierson, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Theatercollectie, Qm00416.000.

Olivia Schoenfeld

The Allard Pierson's contemporary theatre model collection highlighted

Initials Anna Clara Lieftinck in the book Hamburger Teekenonderwijs (Meppel, 1905), City Archives Amsterdam, inv. nr. 698/18.

A lady going to cooking school?

By Marek Susdorf

Johannes Nicolaas Helstone

By: Hani Setiawan

Feet on the Mother Earth: The Memory of Humility in Colonial Java

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Chemical symbols: ‘characters’ used in alchemical texts

Naglaa Ezzeldeen

The Funerary Papyrus of Somteus

Left: the final design for the Tarot card ‘Le Monde’. Right: this image is made up of five different source images.

Roger Cremers and Doina Kraal

Tarot des Forains

Chris K. Huebner

A Window into the Book of Martyrs

Francesco Quatrini

Between Tolerance and Republicanism: New Details on the History of the Collegiant Movement

Map from 1771

“Soft Ooze”; or, Here Be Danger

Hidden Pages: The Surinamica Collection and the Voice of Sapali

Isabelle Best and Dr. Suzanne Manizza Roszak

Writers of Resistance: How Literary Voices Depict the Colonial Past

Nina Schroeder-van ’t Schip & Gwendolyn Verbraak

On a Cold Winter Night, 500 Years Ago…

Theresa Costello

Documenting Physical Evidence of Roman Glass Making Processes

Imagining a post-growth one pot dish from De Verstandige Kock

Book Purchase Order from a Chinese Library During World War II: A Discovery from the Brill Archives