Het verleden verzameld in anderhalve reeks. De Bijdragen voor Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde als “hoofdzakelijke standmeter” van de Nederlandse geschiedbeoefening (1835-1868)

The Bijdragen voor Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde stood out as a national historical journal in the provincially organized historiography. In this article, the Bijdragen have been studied to shed light on the personnel, the organisational structure and the content of mid-nineteenth-century Dutch historiography. The collaborators of the journal came from diverse backgrounds. In the Bijdragen they were united by the concept of historiography that the founder Isaac Anne Nijhoff propagated. In the Bijdragen history was collected, in preparation of a future history of the Netherlands, that should be the sum of local and provincial histories. The primary source material was central to the enterprise of the Bijdragen, documentary as well as material remains of the past. Furthermore, the Bijdragen showed a coexistence of history and antiquarianism in the middle of the nineteenth century.