Dutch courage: Simon Webb on Eduard Douwes Dekker

‘Dekker had found life as a coloniser insupportable.’

by Simon Webb 1st September 2023

As far as I can tell, the bicentenary of the birth of Eduard Douwes Dekker, in March 2020, was quite unmarked in Britain. This may have been because we were occupied with Covid, but it is more likely that we neglected it because few of us know who Dekker actually was, or what he did.