SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH COLLOQUIUM 1979.

This article focuses on the second Anglo-Dutch conference that was held in at the John Adams Hall in Endsieigh Street, London, England. There were twenty-five Dutch historians and about the same number of British participants. Numbers were kept down in order to allow the fullest possible discussions in all sessions, and as much personal contact as possible between sessions. It was, by and large, a successful conference in many ways more successful than the first meeting at Amsterdam. For one thing, many delegates from both sides knew each other, and a lot of trouble was taken to make the workshop sessions useful and helpful on a comparative basis. One must not exaggerate this last point: it is always difficult to achieve comparability, not least because of the different historical positions of Greta Britain and the Netherlands in the two wars, including, of course, the occupation of the latter by the Germans in the World War II. As to the composition of the two delegations, that from the Netherlands was still rather over-weighted with members of the professoriate--although less so than in Amsterdam, while the British delegation was both younger and more evenly balanced between the sexes; and it was one of the British women who summed up from the British side in the final plenary session.