Projects & Research

Intersex people share their experiences

The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam 1900-1940
Thesis Selma Leydesdorff - 1987

How mining and gas extraction changed life in Southern Limburg and Groningen

A long-term initiative to improve the digital research chain on the use of Oral History and Spoken Word, with research on artworks and museums as use cases.

Movementu di hende muhé na Bonairu

The experience of the protagonists, giving them a voice in the recording of their own history

Interviews with Statians providing a wealth of oral history

Oral histories of 28 Sabans

The Social Organization of Saba

Oral stories told by living Saramakas about their 18th-century ancestors, "Maroons" who had escaped slavery and settled in the rainforests of Surinam

Dutch veterans and Moluccans who experienced the period 1945 - 1949 in Indonesia

Growing up in communist families

The changing relationship of (grand)children to their (grand)father through their search for his wartime past as a Dutch SS officer

Insight into the lives of contract workers

Memories of the Leiden textile industry in the twentieth century

Everyday educational practice in the past and its social effects.

Rooting, identity and community building in Suriname

Ongoing research focusing on stories of veterans from the period 1941-1950.

Works of art in museum collections are managed and shaped by institutional policies and personal beliefs. Oral History methodology can help to explore this socio-cultural perspective.

oral history as sustainable data in urban settings

The project 'Interviews in Conservation Research' aims at an integrated approach to the use of oral history for research in art conservation in a responsible way, using case studies from the Rijksmuseum and the Cultural Heritage Agency.

Stories of Dutch East Indies travellers

Interviews on video with former residents

Contemporary history of a sister congregation

Thematic Analysis of Archaeological, Osteological, and Oral Historical Data

Memories in three generations

Veteran families asked about World War II memories, stories and images that resonate with them

Three generations of Dutch-Indian women

Could artificial intelligence take over the artist's voice in conservation research?

A Global Microhistory of Het Dorp Community and its Cultural Heritage from the 1960s

Interviews with leaders of the Tentara Nasional Indonesia

Study on The Hague's Schilderswijk

What was it like to be the child of a Polish soldier?

District nurses' experiences and memories

Role of religion in respondents' childhood

History of organised aid to Jewish children in the Netherlands, 1942-1945