There is history and there is History. We have two ways of shaping the story of the past: the disorderly way of telling thousands of peculiarities and improbabilities, with intrigues, revolutions, coups, dynasties and names. And the shaping of a larger narrative, with the connection between the disorder of history to the order of History. See, history is a knot with many perspectives, causes and consequences. History is the way this all fits in a puzzle: how disorder with the many details can help understand the order of things.

My task? To shape order to the History of the Netherlands, with the chaotic part not far behind. The value of History? Just like Marcus Garvey said:

''A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture, is like a tree without root''

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