Liam O'Mara IV, PhDFeb 18
The second European country to recognize the fledgling #UnitedStates was the #DutchRepublic, sparking the #FourthAngloDutchWar. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1781 the conquest of Dutch outposts in West Africa began. This later cleared the way for British domination of the #SlaveTrade.
Jacqueline HylkemaNov 5, 2022

Hello #histodons,

I’m a cultural historian at Leiden University and specialize in #earlymodern #forgery (ranging from fake news to forged prints), especially in the Dutch Republic and Britain.

I will spend the next few years building a new Special Collection of fakes and forgeries produced in the #DutchRepublic - on that note, here’s one of the elephants in the French edition of George Psalmanazar’s An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (Amsterdam, 1704). #introduction