Reading Time: 10 minutesExact zeventig jaar geleden voltrekt zich een van de grootste Nederlandse rampen van de twintigste eeuw in de nacht van 31 januari op de vroege ochtend van 1 februari 1953.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Author: Elizabeth Hameeteman
Dr. Elizabeth Hameeteman (she/her) founded EHN in 2018. She's currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin, and obtained her PhD in History at Boston University in 2022. Her dissertation, titled “Pipe Parity: Desalination, Development, and the Global Quest for Water in the 1950s and 1960s,” explored the role of desalination as a seemingly viable adaptation strategy to reduce the impact of water scarcity and climate variability in the post-World War II period. Originally from the Netherlands, Elizabeth has a background in Law and American Studies.
When the Dikes Broke
Reading Time: 10 minutesExactly seventy years ago, one of the greatest Dutch disasters of the twentieth century occurred on the night of January 31 into the early morning of February 1, 1953.
