🏛️ Palace of Commerce reveals the hidden world behind the marble walls of Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century city hall.

Far from quiet grandeur, the palace once bustled with paperwork, legal specialists, and urban officials like Jacob de Vogelaer — a wealthy urban secretary managing the flow of commerce and justice, one of 30,000 sheets at a time!

Together with dr. Christian Manger, in my project ‘Professionals and the People’ I analyse these and many other officials who shaped the law and governance of cities in the Netherlands before 1800. You can read all about it here on our website!

📖 Watch the trailer below for first results! Join Bob Wessels and me to step into the administrative engine of a global city.

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dr. Maurits den Hollander

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