This podcast is about the neutral Netherlands from roughly the end of the Napoleonic period up to the end of the First World War. The next podcast will complete the narrative up to the tragic events of May 1940.

Image: Dutch machine gun team manning a Schwarzlose MG (colourised).

Credit to Hubert van Tuyll's excellent The Netherlands and World War I : Espionage, Diplomacy and Survival and Abbenhaus’ The Art of Staying Neutral : The Netherlands in the First World War.

Feel free to contact me at: [email protected] if you have any questions or comments.