They secretly documented life in Amsterdam during the last year of the war: the group of photographers who came to be known as The Underground Camera. Guided by German – Jewish filmmaker Fritz Kahlenberg and resistance leader Tonny van Renterghem, they captured images of both the Nazi occupiers and the Dutch resistance groups. They extensively photographed the grueling conditions of the Hunger Winter, and smuggled their illegally taken photos to London to convince the Dutch government-in-ex...

The Scheepvaarthuis (the ‘Shipping House’), on Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam, diagonally opposite the central railway station, is one of the city’s iconic buildings. There were several phases of construction, starting in 1913. The architect Joan Melchior van der Meij (1878–1949) was commissioned to design the building, in part thanks to his research into brickwork construction during his Prix de Rome travels (1907–1910). He gave it an entirely unique style and appearance, with the ...