On papers, on screen, on site

ate last year, I found myself in Amsterdam for a few days. I was on holiday, and I had spent the previous few weeks exploring European castles and Christmas markets. As a historian, I am well suited to winter holidays. I spend them pottering around in museums and enjoying the emptiness of grand sites that are usually crowded in summer with no room to just stop and stare at the strange details only a historian could love. But on arriving