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

Oral history project among people who have lived their whole lives in Benedenstad (Nijmegen). How do they experience the changes that have taken place there since the Second World War?

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

Personal stories give a great insight into life in other times. For the history project Verhaal van Putten, (former) Putten residents tell their life stories to oral history interviewers.

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.

The story website of Flevoland

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).

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

Personal stories and objects about The Hague

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.

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

on reconstruction in the Achterhoek

Personal testimonies and orally transmitted tories

Life in a prison village

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.

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.

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

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

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

Personal accounts of 1997 swine fever outbreak in Boekel

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

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

Interviewees talk about life in Tolbert in the last century

Marking the area where the German bombardment did its devastating work in 1940

Former residents of Leyduin estate

The oral history and cultural heritage of the Matawai Maroons in Suriname

Stories about the first campus university in the Netherlands

Emigrant's life story

The oerpolder. Farm life behind the dykes

Stories from the consultation room

Stories from boaters

Former Indies-draftees tell

Simmerlân

Op redens oer
Stories about Frisian skaters in the first half of the 20th century

Kening op sokken - about handball

Disappearing professions, village and town life of the past century and wartime experiences in north-eastern Friesland

Personal memories of World War II in Friesland

Traces of migration movement across the border

Battalion Friesland talks about the Dutch East Indies

An oral history project to record the mostly unknown history of the Turkish and Moroccan women's movement in the Netherlands

The life of the Zandloapers

How Dutch Indies and Moluccan with tuberculosis were received and cared for in the Netherlands and how they experienced their stay in the sanatorium

Interviews with pensioners of engineering firm DHV

New and existing interviews on World War II in the Veluwe region

History of Old IJmuiden told in 40 interviews

Miller's story captured

People involved in the forts tell their stories

How Turkish guest workers experienced life in the Netherlands

Memories of Indonesia in colonial times

Franciscan nuns of Bergen op Zoom 1838-2013

The history of the Driebergenbuurt and Molenwijk in Deventer

Events and experiences in the 1940s - 1950s

A search for the truth of a hidden past, disruptive memories, the value of Oral History, and the tricks and tricks of memory.

Events and experiences in the years after 1940

A century of women's labour at the confectionery manufacturer in Zaandam

Stories from Druten's working-class neighbourhood

Veterans of Battalion Zeeland

Interviews with passengers, former POWs and children of now-deceased former POWs

37 babies are born on steamship Ranchi en route from Indonesia to the Netherlands

Timeline of housewife life

Border residents talk about their memories of the war

Catholic women and their movement