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Day after day

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Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming. According to an increasingly vocal minority however, we should be asking ourselves how much of this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence. It seems as so often is the case, that it depends on which expert you […]

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Party Labels in Mid-Eighteenth Century England

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Until the late 1950s the Whig interpretation of English history in the eighteenth century prevailed. This was successfully challenged by Lewis Namier, who proposed, based on an analysis of the voting records of MPs from 1760 intake following the accession to the throne of George lll, that the accepted Whig/Tory division of politics did not […]

Lotte and Wytze Hellinga

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As a student at the university of Amsterdam after the Second World War. Lotte found herself stimulated first by the teaching of Herman de la Fontaine Verwey and they by that of the forceful personality of Wytze Hellinga, at that time professor of  Dutch philology at the University. Wytze Hellinga’s teaching was grounded in the […]