Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 138, Issue 2, 2025

Abstract Disbelievers must stay silent Historians have long failed adequately to consider the wide range of recurring criticism accompanying European integration, and have only belatedly recognized its diversity and relevance. It is not widely known, for instance, that there was significant opposition to the first European elections, held in 1979, in various member states. In the Netherlands all left-wing political parties had fa Read More

Abstract The political becomes personal. Gender representations of cabinet members in Dutch newspapers and weeklies, 1973-1982 ‘The office of cabinet minister is not for women’, wrote Volkskrant journalist Martin de Ruyter in 1974. This article examines interviews with female and male politicians from the cabinets Den Uyl (1973-1977), Van Agt I (1977-1981), and Van Agt II (1981-1982). First, it describes how cabinet me Read More