Beyond Profit
The Dutch role in the slave trade cannot be dismissed as a matter of numbers.
Paul Doolan
Wagner & Mathilde
A political exile, Richard Wagner found safety in Zurich, where he also discovered the love and philosophy that inspired his greatest works, as Paul Doolan explains.
Nursing Times
Whether or not mothers should nurse their own children has been a subject of debate from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome through all of modern European history to the present day. Paul Doolan reviews the arguments that have been presented over the centuries and the way in which fashions have changed.
Museum of the Reformation
Paul Doolan visits a new museum in Geneva that presents the history of Reformed Christianity and Calvinism as a key and positive factor in European history.
The Dutch in Japan
Paul Doolan describes the unique 400-year-long trading, intellectual and artistic contacts between the Dutch and the Japanese.
First Europeans in Australia
Who discovered Australia? Most people think of the First Fleet that went to Botany Bay 1788, but our ideas may require rethinking, following recent research on DNA analysis, and epidemiological studies of a rare disease.
Time for Dutch Courage in Indonesia
Paul Doolan looks at the continuing controversy over Dutch 'police operations' post-1945 in Indonesia.