A selection of texts from different projects are available on these blog pages; websites, lectures, columns, interviews and all kind of origins. If you want to know more about these articles, please feel free to send a message via the contact form below. On this page you find the blogs in the english language.

 

The Prague Spring  fifty years later

The Prague Spring fifty years later

In august 1968 the troops of the Warsaw Pact, led by Soviet command, crushed the Prague Spring. The end of peaceful reforms, more free speech and the loosening of party control in communist Czechoslovakia. Twelve years after the dramatic and violent suppression of the...

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Your Time, your Life, subscribe!

Your Time, your Life, subscribe!

For decades the news and information most people depended upon came from the magazines of the Time-Life empire. Time gave short descriptions of the important developments in politics, business, education, art, science, sports, religion, cinema and much more. Life...

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Lots of space in a compact car

Lots of space in a compact car

Some of the great series in advertising were developed to prove to the customer that buying a small car wouldn’t make a difference in transport space. Off course it did but that would be a bad selling point. Because of the oil crisis in the early seventies average...

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50 years later: the power of a magazine article

50 years later: the power of a magazine article

Photo taken from the funeral train which brought the remains of Robert Kennedy from New York to Washington DC Early june 1968. Robert Kennedy, democratic candidate for the American presidency, was killed in a Los Angeles hotel. People all over the World mourned the...

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D-Day for cover-in-history

D-Day for cover-in-history

Today, june 6th 2018, cover-in-history enters the world wide web. It’s a website about paper, printing and the powerful image. Newspapers, magazines, photography, posters, stamps, cards, documents, written sources, brochures, advertising and much more. Please visit...

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Klaas Kornaat is freelance historicus, in te huren voor publicaties, exposities, educatieve projecten, websites, lezingen en diverse activiteiten op historisch terrein.

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