352. Amsterdam: Kings, Canals, and Coffee Houses

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A city which played a fundamental role in the Dutch Golden Age and in the birth of the Dutch monarchy, Amsterdam has also stood in the avant-garde of European liberalism since the Second World War. Join Tom and Dominic on the second part of our walking tour through Amsterdam, as they look at the importance of its canals, the changing role of the Amsterdam Royal Palace, the Portuguese Synagogue and its relationship with the city’s jewish population, and more. Read more about Tom and Dominic's trip to Amsterdam, in partnership with Wise: https://wise.com/campaign/restishistory *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to The Rest is History, and we are in the heart of Amsterdam, aren't we,
0:15.6	Tom?
0:16.6	Now, if you didn't hear our last episode, we are exploring the history of Amsterdam
0:21.6	with whys.
0:22.6	Now, Tom, as you will know, whys is the international account that is built to save you money around
0:28.4	the world.
0:29.4	I'm 150 countries.
0:30.4	I do.
0:31.4	40 currencies.
0:32.4	And I just want to count.
0:33.4	And as you are always saying to me, I mean, go on, if I had a pound at the time, the number
0:37.8	of times you've said this to me, with whys, you can spend like a local and Dominic.
0:42.8	More importantly, you could spend like a Dutch capitalist in the golden age of Amsterdam.
0:48.6	So, Dominic, at the end of the last episode, we were talking about Amsterdam as simultaneously
0:56.1	this inward looking and this outward looking city.
0:59.0	So, this concern with the domestic, with the interior kind of privacy, while at the same
1:04.4	time, Amsterdam is really the kind of the great smithy of what will become European globalization.
1:11.9	Right.
1:12.9	Expanding trade networks, all the wealth and goods and commodities of the world coming to
1:18.0	Amsterdam.
1:19.0	So, the people here are certainly the elites are fabulously rich.
1:24.7	So, Amsterdam is absolutely a boom town.
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