The Expatriate Archive Centre collects, preserves, promotes and makes accessible a collection of primary source materials, documenting the global social history of expatriate life.
Introductory Presentation
The Collection
The collection is kept in a climate controlled room to safeguard the quality of the documents, visual and recorded material. Part of the collection is stored in a digital archive only. Currently research of the collection is restricted to manual research with a member of staff. We are working to enable online research by third parties for the future.
The Archive adheres to all legal and technical requirements demanded of an archive e.g.Wet Persoonsregistratie (Data Protection Act).
History
The Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague had its roots in a group of women laughing at the suggestion of a ‘statue of the Shell wife’ being set up in their honour as part of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company’s centenary celebrations in 1992. Read more...