Projects & Research

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

on reconstruction in the Achterhoek

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

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

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.

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).