The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
Oost-Indisch Huis
Boardroom decisions here shaped Asia for two centuries. I always pause in the courtyard; the ordinariness is the point.
The 1606 headquarters of the Dutch East India Company — the world's first multinational corporation ran a quarter of global trade from this courtyard.
— Femke, The Historian
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