Op de Canadese Oorlogsbegraafplaats in Groesbeek rusten 2.618 militairen uit Canada en het Britse Gemenebest. De meesten sneuvelden tijdens de bevrijding van Nederland en het beslissende Rijnlandoffensief aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Dit boek brengt hun individuele verhalen tot leven en biedt een aangrijpend eerbetoon aan de jonge mannen die vochten voor vrijheid, democratie en vrede. Met de namen van alle gesneuvelden en de 1.012 vermisten op de Memorial Wall is dit een waardevo...

Bij dit boek is een interessante PODCAST gemaakt, te downloaden via Podcast Hoog Tijd - De canon van de Koninklijke Marine of in iTunes of Spotify (zoek op "Hoog Tijd")

In De Canon van de Koninklijke Marine. Geschiedenis van de Zeemacht wordt in vijftig vensters zicht gegeven op de rijke historie van de zeemacht van Nederland. Dit boek gaat niet alleen over zeehelden of zeeslagen, maar laat zien hoe veelomvattend de geschiedenis van de marine is, van 1488 tot nu.

De thema’s zijn rijkgescha...

St. Eustatius, a small island in the Lesser Antilles, has played an important role in Atlantic World history. Since its first permanent European settlement in 1636, the island changed hands 22 times between the Dutch, French, and English. As a result of the Dutch free trade policy, St. Eustatius became one of the Caribbean’s main transshipment centers in the eighteenth century. During the American War of Independence (1775-1783), large amounts of arms, ammunition, and gunpowder were shipped...

One of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese antiquities worldwide was accrued by the Egyptologist Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing (1873–1956). As a scholar, university professor, and politically engaged Prussian nobleman he was an important link in the international network of Egyptology and in the distribution of archaeological objects to museums. He was also active in other disciplines regarding the ancient world, such as Etruscology. Already during his life, the collec...

Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As an inland port on the edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as an international hub, connecting the North Sea World with the Continent and the Low Countries with Italy. In 2024, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This fourth edition, ‘Dorestad and Everything After’, coincided with the l...

This volume comprises 100 archaeological air photographs, principally of sites dating to the Iron Age and Roman periods in Northern Britain, resulting from aerial survey between 1970 and 1995, before the advent of drones when archaeological air photography was still dependent upon the use of light aircraft. The principal target areas were the Anglo-Scottish Borders, central Scotland (crannogs) and the Northern and Western Isles (brochs and duns). Practically, in order to maximise intended ...

Pre-dating the urban revolution in Western Asia, a network of agricultural settlements developed in the forest-steppe zone northwest of the Black Sea in the late 5th and first half of the 4th millennium BCE, some of which are among the largest prehistoric mega-sites in Europe. These enormous so-called Trypillia communities are unique in many respects, and the dynamics of their formation and their development have long been a topic of intensive research. For more than ten years now, research o...

In the spring of 1497, the Hispaniolan cacica (chieftess) Anacaona presented Columbus’ brother, Adelantado (Governor) Bartolomé Colón, with a lavish assortment of Indigenous wealth, including both woven textiles and balls of spun cotton, “so large that a man could hardly lift them.”

These had been stored among the cacical reserves, held in readiness for distribution in ways deemed useful to the chiefs and their communities – from spun cotton for artisanal commissions, to finished ob...

Krokodil leent geld van Beer om snoep te kopen. Ze belooft Beer op tijd terug te betalen. Maar dat doet ze niet! Nu wil Beer geen vriendinnen meer zijn. Had Krokodil de snoepjes echt nodig? En welk plan bedenkt ze om het goed te maken?

Bij Misja thuis scheiden ze hun afval.

Maar wat gebeurt daarmee nadat het in de vuilnisbak is beland?

Van de vuilniswagen van Sam tot de blikjesfabriek van Jip: in dit boek lees je alles over de mensen, wagens en machines die nodig zijn om ons afval op te halen en te recyclen. Ontdek zelf hoe jij je oude spullen opnieuw kunt gebruiken en minder weg kunt gooien!