The Dutch Navy had ships in the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese invaded in 1941. The Japanese Army was ferocious in its attacks, as part of its broader plan to colonise most of the Pacific Ocean.

Report about the transfer of the administration of the Dutch East Indies from Governor-General D. Fock to A.C.D. de Graeff on 7 September, 1926.

The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinied against Captain William Bligh and set him adrift in the middle of the Pacific in a ...

There are books you can’t put down, books that make you think, and books you buy as a present because they are quirky and you think the recipient might like them. The Hague Cookbook falls into that ...

Less discussed was an unexpected moral clause — Section 307 — that would ultimately help dismantle one of colonialism’s most brutal labour systems in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia). At ...

Including: Sunderland unemployed activist acquitted after police fit-up, Dutch East Indies continued, Japan continued, ...

As part of the allied opposition to Japan, the Royal Netherlands and East Indies Forces operated from Australia. After the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) fell to the Japanese, both soldiers and ...