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Dutch archives on social networks

Dutch archives on social networks

Below is a list of archives who are active on a few popular socal networks, like Twitter or Facebook. The list is probably incomplete, if you discover an archive that should be listed but is not please let me know.

Twitter

Most larger and a few smaller archives are on Twitter (notable exceptions are the provincial archives of Limburg and Overijssel and the city archive of Den Haag). Nearly all archive tweets are in Dutch.

Only the official twitter accounts of Dutch archives are listed. Many archivists and other archive staff tweet on their own accounts, these are not listed here.

National archives: National Archive (@gahetNA_nl), National Library of The Netherlands (@KB_Nederland), Central Bureau for Genealogy (@CBGenealogie).

Provincial archives: Drenthe (@drentsarchief), Flevoland (@nieuw_land), Friesland (@TRESOARfryslan), Gelderland (@GeldersArchief1), Groningen (@gronarch), Noord-Brabant (@bhicarchief), Noord-Holland (@NHArchief), Utrecht (@utrechtsarchief), Zeeland (@zeeuwsarchief1, @ZeeuwsArchiefED).

Local and regional archives: Amsterdam (@stadsarchief), Apeldoorn (@CODAapeldoorn), Bergen op Zoom (@hetmarkiezenhof), Bommelerwaard (@SABommelerwaard), Deventer(@sab_deventer), Ede (@Gemeentearchief), Eemland (@Archief_Eemland), Eindhoven (@RHCEindhoven), Gorinchem (@archGorinchem), 's-Hertogenbosch (@Bieb_en_Archief), Leeuwarden (@HistorischCLwd), Leiden (@RALeiden), Rotterdam (@GemArchRdam), Schiedam (@ArchiefSchiedam), Tilburg (@RATilburg), Vecht en Venen (@RHCVV), Venlo (@ArchiefVenlo), Westfriesland (@wfarchief), Westland (@HAWestland), Zeist (@GA_Zeist).

Facebook

An increasing number of Dutch archives has a facebook page: The National Archive and the Central Bureau for Genealogy, the provincial archives of Friesland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland, Noord-Brabant and Limburg, and the regional and local archives of Amsterdam, Bergen op Zoom, Eemland, Oss, Rotterdam and Westland.

Flickr

A few Dutch archives share images on Flickr. These are the National Archive, the provincial archives of Friesland, Drenthe, Overijssel, Noord-Holland and Noord-Brabant, and the local or regional archives from Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Land van Heusden en Altena, Achterhoek, Eemland, Schiedam, Veenendaal, and Tilburg.

Youtube

Most Dutch archives have moving images in their collections. Some share a few fragments on Youtube. Other archives share films of current events at their archive or in their region. The Dutch archives with a youtube channel are: The national archive, the national library, the provincial archives of Drenthe, Flevoland, Friesland, Noord-Brabant and Noord-Holland, and the local and regional archives of Alkmaar, Eemland, Leeuwarden, Rotterdam, Tilburg and Wageningen.