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Went to see the renovated Egyptian exhibition and the Valley of the Queens exhibition in the ancient history museum in town. Really well don...

Two weeks ago I was invited to do a demonstration of a megagame at the PLAY Masterclass by the Dutch Society of Play. The Society of Play ...

Had a nice trip cycling from Woerden via Oudewater and Montfoort to Vleuten. Not only was it a beautiful sunny day, but this is classic pold...

If you have any interest in Waterloo the one thing you have to do in the next few months is go to Dordrecht and visit the exhibition on the ...

In the Wake of Napoleon: The Dutch in Time of War 1792-1815 by Mark van Hatten My rating: 3 of 5 stars Book written around items f...

Yesterday Nick and I went to the National Portrait Gallery and among other stuff, we saw George Catlin's portraits of North American In...

On a trip to Antwerp over a week ago, we visited a few interesting places, like the excellent MAS (Museum aan de Stroom), with a rich combin...

Last Sunday we went to the Hermitage in Amsterdam to watch the Van Gogh collection that’s temporarily housed there, as well as a nice co...

The Bronze exhibition at the Royal Academy comes highly recommended. There are really some stunningly beautiful bronze statues out there, n...

I bought a card of St Pauls during the Blitz, pictured by Cecil Beaton. There's a nice exhibition of his photographical work in the Impe...

I've finished my review of Tom Behan's The Resistible Rise of Benito Mussolini . so have a look there. Furthermore I've booked ...

In January 2008 I visited the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, BC with my brother who then lived in Vancouver. It's a small museum...

The Carabinieri Genovese were formed in 1851 as a rifle association. The club was heavily influenced by the desire for Italian unity and m...

Another fine painting from the Wolfsonia collection in Nervi. Close to the outbreak of WWII, this shows Mussolini at the helm (it's ca...

This painting from the Wolfsonia collection in Genova-Nervi shows how the Futurist obsession with movement and action perfectly fitted fasci...

This bust is displayed at the Risorgimento museum in Genova. It's an old school museum in transition, now having some multimedia displ...

A painting by Alba Giuppone from 1942-3 called Donne in tempo di guerra from the Galeria d'Arte Moderne in Genova-Nervi. Nervi, a form...

The UJ-126 Steiermark was sunk near Terschelling on 10 July 1940 by British submarine H-31

Apparently a panel controlling emergency pumps on the German cruiser Lützow which was sunk during the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Picture t...

Made by royal foundries in Brussels in 1623, by Johannes Sithoff. Probably captured by the Dutch and then used as naval gun. Ship probabl...