Department of Forgotten History
Danny van ZuijlenOpening case files on stories history almost forgot.
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This 1909 Map Solved a Historical Mystery
I was trying to reconstruct a river journey through Borneo more than a century after it happened.
Not just any journey, but one that carried Dutch explorer Hendrik Lorentz deep into the interior of Borneo in 1909.
His diary is wonderfully...
The women behind Amsterdam’s old underworld
Behind the romance of Amsterdam’s Red Light District were women trying to survive.
Anyone watching old footage of Amsterdam’s Red Light District can understand why people speak about it with nostalgia.
Men shout across smoky bars....
They were left behond on an island for 15 years.
In July 1761, a French ship ran aground on a small, uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean.
The ship was called L’Utile.
In its cramped hold were more than one hundred enslaved people from Madagascar, illegally transported by the crew.
W...
I didn't become a better writer. I became a better observer.
Most writers start with words.
I don’t.
Coming from theatre, VR design, and digitised archives -
I start with an image.
Not because I don’t care about language - quite the opposite. But because I’ve learned that most scenes don’t fail...
You think you know her. But you used to be her.
She is still standing there.
Not at the station itself, no longer among travelers and the rattle of suitcases, or the hiss of steam rising along the platforms.
But here.
Captured on a glass negative
from the Bain News Service archive...
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Archivist, researcher and storyteller uncovering overlooked histories through archives, photographs and forgotten records. Founder of Department of Forgotten History.
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