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The incredible journey of the world’s most influential swamp and those who call it home. Beginning at the end of the last ice age and trekking all the way through to the modern era, together...
When Joanna of Castile wed Philip the Handsome aka Habsburg Phil in 1496, few people would have foreseen that this marriage would result in...
In November 1501, Margaret of Austria was married by proxy to Philibert the Handsome, the Duke of Savoy. Over the next three years, Margaret...
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 the summer of 2025, we were lucky enough to meet Rene Rosechild, who lives in Denver, Colorado, today, but whose family roots trace back...
Over the fifty-four episodes of this podcast so far, we have often found ourselves fixated on familiar phases of sphagnum, or ferocious figh...
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...
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,...
We sit down with Elyzabeth Gorman, storyteller-in-chief of Badass Tours, to talk about LGBTQ+ history of the Netherlands. Quite the badass h...
After Prince Juan’s death in 1497, Margaret of Austria spent almost two years in mourning in Spain, being treated with empathy and kindness...
We sit down with Bart Ouvry, managing director of AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, Belgium, to speak about the challenges he faces attempting to de...
We dumbly delve into the deep and desolate doldrums that define trying to understand the growth and development of Dutch shipbuilding in the...
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...
Between the years 1000 and 1500 CE the soggy, sphagnum filled bog lands of the western Low Countries were terraformed to support human habit...
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...
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...
In the 1440s a goldsmith from Mainz called Johannes Gutenberg developed a movable type printing press which catalysed the European printing...
We meet Simon Gronowski, a 92 year old jazz pianist, lawyer and Holocaust survivor. At the age of eleven, Simon was locked in a cattle wagon...
We chat with author and academic Christine Kooi, whose book Reformation in the Low Countries 1500-1620 was released last year by Cambridge U...
We dig up the bulbs of the past, trim the stems of historical myth and hopefully emerge with a lustrous vase of understanding as to where th...
Long time listeners will be aware that, alongside being passionate about the history of our boggy swamp, we also carry a deep love for the g...
At the end of episode 49, we said that we were going to move away from the political part of the story of the History of the Netherlands for...
Just as much as Dutch and Flemish culture today have been defined by their ability to seek consensus through compromise, so too have they de...
What do black chickens have to do with witchcraft? Why were pigs not allowed to walk the streets freely in the Middle Ages? And should we we...
When the Netherlands and Belgium did not exist, people spoke of the Low Countries when referring to the area around the river deltas. Water...
The double marriage between the Habsburg and Spanish dynasties organised in the creation of the Holy League in 1495 was part of a larger pla...
When French king Charles VIII laid claims to the Kingdom of Naples and invaded Italy in September, 1494, an anti-French coalition called the...
When Philip the Handsome came of age and took over direct rule of the previously Burgundian, now Habsburg, territories of the Low Countries...
Throughout the history of the Low Countries, people from this part of the world have been pioneers in almost every sense of the word. Whethe...
In March 1492, the town burghers and knights of Guelders hailed Charles of Egmont as their duke, beginning a four decade period of bitter, c...
We flip through the pages of comic history in the Low Countries; from the use of illustrated prints from as early as the 15th century to the...
We get out the drawing board, put on a hard hat and clamber up a scaffold of creative construction, so that we may cast our view on a few of...
What was that crazy story that we just told? How much of it really happened? What does it all mean for our understanding of rebellion and re...
The VOC is back! Three and a half months after Commander Pelsaert abandoned everybody to a life a brutality and thirst, finally those who ha...
In the history of European military aggression in Australia, this is where it all began. Of the people that remain alive following the doome...
Upper Merchant Francisco Pelsaert, Captain Arjen Jacobsz and about 40 other people are sailing in a longboat north along the immense coast o...
As all hell breaks loose aboard the sinking ship Batavia, saving the lives of crew and passengers aboard may not be the most important prior...
It should be fairly smooth sailing from here on for the Batavia... Were it not for the small matters of a brewing mutiny amidst the crew, di...
In the true Dutch mercantile spirit of trade and exchange, after having History of the Netherlands featured on History Daily, today we have...
Life on board a ship in the 1600s was no joyous experience. In this episode, we look at what the crew, soldiers and passengers aboard the Ba...
In an age when traditional European feudalism was breaking down, the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the world's first corpora...
In October, 1628, a merchant ship called Batavia set sail from the Dutch republic bound for an island on the other side of the world called...
The final years of Philip of Cleves’ rebellion in Flanders saw the most famously fractious of Flemish cities, Ghent, flare into open revolt...
The weariness that comes from decades of instability, war, economic turmoil and hardship really began to exact its toll on the Low Countries...
When the treaty of Montils-lez-Tours was signed on October 30, 1489, “peace” was formally arranged between the French, the Habsburg ducal go...
We take a look at the growth and development of spirituality and religion in the Low Countries. From pagan tribalism to the rise and dominan...
On May 16, 1488, Maximilian of Habsburg secured his release after more than three months of involuntary isolation in Bruges when he agreed t...
In this episode of The Low Countries Radio, we are going to delve into some of the sports that have developed in, or been adopted by and gro...
By the summer of 1485, Maximilian of Habsburg had quashed the first major revolt against his rule and regained control over Flanders, in the...
The Low Countries have long held mystery and intrigue for people around the world. Over thousands of years, innumerable myths and legends ha...
After being forced to sign the Treaty of Arras in late 1482, Maximilian of Habsburg found his authority in Flanders challenged by a group of...