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This article is the work of members of the Dutch history seminar meeting under the chairmanship of Professor K. W. Swart at the Institute of Historical Research in the Senate House, University of London, and of several Belgian historians. A list of contributors will be found at the end. The section on Belgian history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was regretably not completed in time for inclusion in this article but will be incorporated in the next volume’s historiographical survey. An encouraging feature of this year’s article is the number of solid works in English on Dutch history which have been summarized but not fully reviewed. There are still too few works in English, however, on Dutch history in the late eighteenth century, and none on the later modern period.
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Carter, A.C. (1975). Survey of Recent Historical Works on Belgium and the Netherlands Published in Dutch. In: Acta Historiae Neerlandicae 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5951-7_8
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