Fashion palaces
The Hague is, of course, the city of royal palaces, but we have other types of palaces as well. Beginning around 1900, The Hague was
Liberation Children
A special group within the post-World War II Dutch baby boom were children fathered by the Allied soldiers, our liberators. These are the “liberation children”
The baby boom
What does it take to have a child? No, don’t worry, I am not offering a lecture about sex education. I want to talk about
Dutch interior design
When I was young, Ikea was not yet a presence in the Netherlands. So then it was Dutch, not Swedish, designers who determined the character
What might Hagenaars have remembered about the year 1920?
We often look back at the end of a year. So did the inhabitants of The Hague 100 years ago, when the end of 1920
The Hague Stock Exchange
In these times of low and perhaps negative savings interest rates, it is tempting to invest your money (if you have any left) in equities.
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