Contains the biographies of interesting people who were of significance to the Netherlands from 1780 to 2000. From the lawyer Simon van der Aa to the music educator Bernardus Zweers. Each biography contains an overview of important sources and literature on the person described. For those who are interested in biographies and the history of the Netherlands.

Biographical information about well-known and lesser-known people from Dutch history. The descriptions come from existing reference books about people who are no longer alive. From Willem van der Aa to Frederik van Zyrik. For those interested in Dutch history.

Online catalogue with approximately 585,000 descriptions of individual letters and parts of correspondence written in the early-modern and modern period (ca. 1500 - present). Contains information about more than 2 million letters. The letters come from the collections of Dutch heritage institutions, including the KB. For researchers.

Electronic version of the 80 volumes of the American Country Studies book series covering countries from around the world. Each volume describes and analyses the history of a country and its social, economic, political and national conditions. For researchers and the general public.

Online database with the original texts of more than 15 million Dutch newspaper pages, 11 million magazine pages and over 900,000 books from the 15th to the 21st century. Search 120 million digitized pages with one search action. For anyone interested in the Dutch past.

Encyclopedia with biographical summaries of remarkable women from Dutch history and overseas territories. Covers 15 centuries and is searchable by alphabet and category. Previously appeared in print form as 1001 women from Dutch history. For the (hobby) historian and anyone interested in women's history.

Database of approximately 20,000 (transcribed) letters written by and sent to 17th century scholars from the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Search results are also visually displayed in terms of geography, time and correspondent networks. Useful for historians and history enthusiasts.

Website with more than 50,000 digitized artworks, books, artefacts, videos and music from the collections of 3,500 European museums, libraries, galleries and archives. New content is added regularly. Interesting for researchers and lovers of music, art and literature.

Database of descriptions of Western medieval manuscripts. Focuses on texts up to approximately 1550, written in Latin or in a Western European vernacular, preserved in public and partially-public collections in the Netherlands. Search literary, scientific and liturgical texts, as well as egodocuments. With images where possible. For literary researchers.

Database of information from 1,280 property inventories from the 17th century. Concerns inventories from Amsterdam from the period 1597-1681, drawn up for auction purposes in cases such as death or bankruptcy, for example. With information about paintings, sculptures, furniture, et cetera. Includes bibliographic information about the owner. For historians who do research into art trade in the Netherlands.