62 - We Do It Like The Italian Job
Margaret of Austria’s ability to fight the war with Guelders in 1508 was hampered by events involving her father Maximilian on the other sid...
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61 - "First Catch Us, Then Hang Us"
In this episode, we want to take a more granular look at the Guelders war by zooming in on the events as they affected one city in particula...
60 - The Working Mum
In March, 1507, Margaret of Austria was appointed by her father Maximilian as his procureur-général in the Low Countries, meaning she essent...
59 - Successive Crises Amidst a Looming Succession Crisis
During the first decade of the 16th century, one of the primary concerns for the towns, cities and ducal governments of the Low Countries wa...
58 - Kill Phil Volume 2
When Joanna of Castile wed Philip the Handsome aka Habsburg Phil in 1496, few people would have foreseen that this marriage would result in...
57 - Kill Phil Volume 1
In November 1501, Margaret of Austria was married by proxy to Philibert the Handsome, the Duke of Savoy. Over the next three years, Margaret...
56 - Trying to Geld Guelders
Around the same time that Friesland succumbed to the rule of a foreign prince in 1498, the Duchy of Guelders was also engulfed by a struggle...
In de Bonus!: Stumbling over Reminders of the Holocaust in Amsterdam
In the summer of 2025, we were lucky enough to meet Rene Rosechild, who lives in Denver, Colorado, today, but whose family roots trace back...
55 - Full on Frisian Foray: Freedom and Foreign Frenemies in the 15th Century
Over the fifty-four episodes of this podcast so far, we have often found ourselves fixated on familiar phases of sphagnum, or ferocious figh...
BONUS: Kwasi Boachi, a 19th century Ashanti Prince in the Netherlands with Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago
Earlier this year we interviewed Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago, a German historian of Ghanaian descent. Hang on, I hear you say, isn’t this p...
BONUS: Waterland's Rampjaar Refugees with Loek Zoon
On June 12, 1672 the Dutch republic was attacked on all sides by France, England and the bishoprics of Cologne and Münster. Within a month,...
BONUS: LGBTQ+ history of the Netherlands with Elyzabeth Gorman
We sit down with Elyzabeth Gorman, storyteller-in-chief of Badass Tours, to talk about LGBTQ+ history of the Netherlands. Quite the badass h...
54 - The Widowed Bride
After Prince Juan’s death in 1497, Margaret of Austria spent almost two years in mourning in Spain, being treated with empathy and kindness...
Bonus: Decolonising the AfricaMuseum with Bart Ouvry
We sit down with Bart Ouvry, managing director of AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, Belgium, to speak about the challenges he faces attempting to de...
53 - Clinker to Carvel (and how to shove sphagnum into wood)
We dumbly delve into the deep and desolate doldrums that define trying to understand the growth and development of Dutch shipbuilding in the...
BONUS: Amsterdam 750 with Erik Schmitz from Amsterdam City Archive
On October 27, 1275, Count Floris V of Holland issued a toll exemption to the village of Amsterdam as compensation for damage caused by his...
52 - Draining the Swamp Part 2: Too Drained, Too Furious
Between the years 1000 and 1500 CE the soggy, sphagnum filled bog lands of the western Low Countries were terraformed to support human habit...
BONUS: Getting to Know The American Netherlander
We chat with comedian and author Greg Shapiro a.k.a. The American Netherlander a.k.a. the voice of Donald Trump in the "America First, the N...
BONUS: Not Rembrandt
They both lived during the Dutch Golden Age, grew up in Leiden, were taught by the same painter, shared a studio, received all the praise, a...
51 - The Lion and the Letter-Cutter
In the 1440s a goldsmith from Mainz called Johannes Gutenberg developed a movable type printing press which catalysed the European printing...