THE German invasion of Holland and the flight of Queen Wilhelmina's Government have thrown the Dutch East Indies largely on their own devices. Indeed, as these lines are written there are indications ...

His current research focuses on the history of the establishment of the Reformed church in the East Indies during the time of the Dutch East India Company.

News has reached here of the death in Makasser, Dutch East Indies, of Engineer F. C. van Lier, Mayor of that city. Engineer van Lier, who was the only Jew filling a mayoralty in the Dutch East ...

WWII veteran 1st Lt. (Ret.) John Fisher Lammey shares stories from his time serving in the 13th Air Force, Army Air Corps in the Dutch East Indies. The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense ...

The proposal of the latter, in 1857, included the organisation of hourly observations at Batavia and the establishment of secondary stations at some places in the East Indian Archipelago ...

Nagasaki bobtails have their roots in the Dutch East Indies when the city was Japan’s only foreign port in the 17th to 19th ...

A Tasmanian detectorist has found a Dutch East Indies 1 duit coin that pre-dates colonisation in the state. While the coin itself is not rare, it's an uncommon find in Tasmania. While the coin won ...

Rowena Hawkins recounts her childhood in 1960s colonial Singapore in My Father is Police, Lah!, tracing family life, class, ...

It was once an outpost for the Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial empires, before gaining independence in 1957. However, I arrived there less ceremoniously than the British, recovering from a ...