Projects & Research

Researching the lost social history of the Amsterdam residential district.

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

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

This special collects stories behind wartime objects as well as war stories from Gelderlanders themselves.

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.

Podcast for and by third-generation Moluccans

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.

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.

The story website of Flevoland

Personal stories and objects about The Hague

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.

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

on reconstruction in the Achterhoek

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).

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

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

Stories of farmers, citizens and outsiders in Gelderland

Personal accounts of 1997 swine fever outbreak in Boekel

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

From gamekeepers to farmers and from the first family doctor to the first resident of the new village of Zeewolde.

On the importance of preserving food.

Local history from Helmond

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.

Museum the Treasure of Simpelveld uses oral history to record the stories of the convent's last nuns

Images and interviews with unemployed people and officials from the 1930s

Sixty Limburg ex-miners and their wives talk about their lives and work in the mines

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.

Portraits of women from Almere with a migration background

Events and experiences in the years after 1940

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.