After his ascension to the throne in 1813, William Frederick was quickly accepted as a father-monarch who united the various factions previously vying for power in the Dutch Republic. When in 1815 the Sovereign Principality of the Netherlands merged with the former Austrian Netherlands to form the United Kingdom, the new Southern subjects were far less inclined to accept William I as father of the nation. So goes the prevailing interpretation in the historiography, based as it is on politically and culturally elite sources. In this article, we investigate how ordinary folk imagined the new monarch. We examine the identification strategies and monarchical imagery they employed in writing pauper letters, comparing the restoration monarchy wit...
Early Modern Europe and its colonies witnessed many regime changes and transfers of sovereignty, due...
The constitutional monarchy as an essential ‘modern’ state form of the restoration period was intend...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
After his ascension to the throne in 1813, William Frederick was quickly accepted as a father-monarc...
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system co...
This article explores visual strategies of legitimisation deployed in the establishment of the Dutch...
This article explores visual strategies of legitimisation deployed in the establishment of the Dutch...
For half a century, historians of the Low Countries have studied the decades around 1800 as a period...
The constitutional monarchy as an essential 'modern' state form of the restoration period was intend...
Historians of gender often see the construction of hegemonic images of masculinity as the result of ...
Medieval views on rulers from the past were often politically instrumentalised in the service of con...
In 1806 more than two centuries of the republican form of government in the Northern Netherlands cam...
Sometimes an issue grows naturally into a theme number. The occasion was the celebration of two hund...
Today, Belgium is an oft-cited example of a “fabricated state” with no real binding national identit...
Historiography of the Dutch Revolt has traditionally emphasised that it was painful and inopportune ...
Early Modern Europe and its colonies witnessed many regime changes and transfers of sovereignty, due...
The constitutional monarchy as an essential ‘modern’ state form of the restoration period was intend...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
After his ascension to the throne in 1813, William Frederick was quickly accepted as a father-monarc...
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system co...
This article explores visual strategies of legitimisation deployed in the establishment of the Dutch...
This article explores visual strategies of legitimisation deployed in the establishment of the Dutch...
For half a century, historians of the Low Countries have studied the decades around 1800 as a period...
The constitutional monarchy as an essential 'modern' state form of the restoration period was intend...
Historians of gender often see the construction of hegemonic images of masculinity as the result of ...
Medieval views on rulers from the past were often politically instrumentalised in the service of con...
In 1806 more than two centuries of the republican form of government in the Northern Netherlands cam...
Sometimes an issue grows naturally into a theme number. The occasion was the celebration of two hund...
Today, Belgium is an oft-cited example of a “fabricated state” with no real binding national identit...
Historiography of the Dutch Revolt has traditionally emphasised that it was painful and inopportune ...
Early Modern Europe and its colonies witnessed many regime changes and transfers of sovereignty, due...
The constitutional monarchy as an essential ‘modern’ state form of the restoration period was intend...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...