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Pieter Geyl (1887—1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Having come to the UK as a journalist, he started his academic career at the University of London in the aftermath of World War I (1919) and played an important role in the early days of the Institute of Historical Research. Known in this time for his re-interpretation of the sixteenth-century Dutch Revolt against the Habsburgs, that challenged existing historiographies of both Belgium and the Netherlands but was also linked to his political activism in favour of the Flemish movement in Belgium, Geyl left his stamp on the British perception of Low Countries history before moving back to his country of origin in 1935. Having spent World War II in German hostage camps, he famously coined the adage of history being ‘a discussion without end’ and re-engaged in public debates with British historians after the war, partly conducted on the airwaves of the BBC. A prolific writer and an early example of a ‘public intellectual’, Geyl remains one of the most influential thinkers on history of his time. The present volume re-examines Geyl’s relationship with Britain (and the Anglophone world at large) and sheds new light on his multifaceted work as a historian, journalist, homme de lettres and political activist.

Table of contents

1. Geyl and Britain: an introduction  
Ulrich Tiedau / Stijn van Rossem

2. The Greater Netherlands Idea of Pieter Geyl (1887–1966)
Pieter van Hees

3. Pieter Geyl and Émile Cammaerts: the Dutch and Belgian chairs at the University of London between academia and propaganda, 1914–1935
Ulrich Tiedau

4. Pieter Geyl and the Institute of Historical Research
Stijn van Rossem

8. ‘It is a part of me’: The literary ambitions of Pieter Geyl  
Wim Berkelaar

7. Pieter Geyl and the Idea of Federalism
Leen Dorsman

6. Debating Toynbee after the Holocaust: Pieter Geyl as a post-war public historian
Remco Ensel

5. Pieter Geyl and the Eighteenth Century
Reinier Salverda

9. The Historiographical Legacy of Pieter Geyl for Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Studies
Mark Edward Hay

10. Pieter Geyl and his entanglement with German Westforschung
Alisa van Kleef

11. Between Leuven and Utrecht: the Afterlife of Pieter Geyl and ‘Greater Netherlands’
Fons Meijer