Our Amsterdam 750 Years (Ons Amsterdam 750 jaar)

(Dutch edition)

The Alteration, the February strike, the inauguration of Queen Beatrix, many know Amsterdam from major historical events. Our Amsterdam 750 Years tells the city’s history as it has never actually been told. With hundreds of stories about unknown Amsterdammers, about special places, about visitors, migrants, traders, scientists, pastors, slumlords, workers, foragers and capitalists. Not about the tall white men with their starched white collars of yesteryear, but about Rembrandt’s black neighbors, the construction of the Greek Orthodox church, the arrival of an elephant in the city, the battle in Café Zincken between socialists and the police , and how immigrants from the former Dutch East Indies ended up in Geuzenveld in the 1950s (and brought rock’n’roll with them).