Projects & Research

In-depth interviews with 6 very elderly Moroccan-Dutch men

Turkish and Moroccan guest workers have been part of Tilburg's history for almost 60 years.

Experiences of first-generation Dutch-Moroccan and Dutch-Turkish students at VU university

Recording life stories of women in the Kelompok women's group

A period of fear, uncertainty and nuclear threat.
The heritage from the Cold War still receives too little attention. Not only to the bunkers, but also to the stories.

Sixty key players have their say on one of the largest and most complicated building projects in Utrecht. The book Twenty years of building the Utrecht railway station area by Ed van Eeden gives a striking insight into the development of the Utrecht railway station area. From Corio to the Jaarbeurs and from architects to civil servants, everyone is covered. This results in a number of controversial stories.

The Amsterdam Museum is housed in the former Orphanage. The museum collects the stories of Amsterdammers who themselves lived in the Burgerweeshuis.

Portraits of women from Almere with a migration background

Stories of farmers, citizens and outsiders in Gelderland

Visitors can tell their stories and anecdotes about the topics of DIG IT UP

Soul of the Reconstruction is a project of Stichting Verhalenhuis Belvédère. In this collection 85 life stories of Rotterdammers from different generations, countries of origin and cultures are included.

on reconstruction in the Achterhoek

IHLIA started the Pink Life Books project in 2012 in cooperation with Osira Amstel Group. For this, trained volunteers write down the life stories of pink elderly people.

What was daily life like on the polder mills of South Holland? Millers, children of millers, and also millwrights and former polder administrators tell their stories.

Oral history, captured in a podcast series, as an intangible heritage of our shared history

Within the research programme Independence, decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950, the project Witnesses & Contemporaries focuses on collecting the experiences of those involved in the Netherlands, Indonesia and other countries.

Podcast about the oral history project Storia de nhas Pais ('The land of my parents') initiated by Stichting Rotterdam Vertelt (SRV) and the study of the project by Leiden researchers from Night Spaces: Culture, Migration and Integration in Europe (NITE).

The story website of Flevoland

Personal stories and objects about The Hague

The vision of the pioneers and first inhabitants on the landscape and nature is recorded.

Stories you keep pulling from

Together with Erfgoed Gelderland, Museum Smedekinck started this oral history project in 2019.

The aim of this project is to collect as many first-hand experiences as possible, which tell something about the experiences with and consequences of lincapacition of Dutch women before 1956.

With the Neighbourhood Collection Bospolder-Tussendijken, we track how people in this neighbourhood deal with the changes and challenges.

There has been a Greek community in Belgium since the guest worker immigration of the middle of the last century, which today numbers about 25,000 people.