Bradford and the Pilgrims left the Netherlands from Delftshaven. Today it a quaint street with an historic feel The harbor
One interesting place that we visited during our trip to Leiden was the American Pilgrim Museum. It was a house
Since I announced several years ago that I was writing a new biography of William Bradford, I’ve had quite a
Bradford lived in Leiden during a truly formative period of his life, and we spent several days here. It has
Delftshaven, from which the Pilgrims departed Many Reformed churches today hold dearly to the principle of Semper Reformanda, or Always
While researching for my Bradford biography, I just came across a short poem about the Pilgrims. Seeing that it was
Image by Jeff Nelson under CC BY-SA 2.0 I recently came across a snippet from a letter by Bradford that
One of Amsterdam’s famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam’s central square, was built in the 1300s. Bradford would have certainly
Painting of a Dutch Woman from this period by Rembrandt Two years ago I wrote a short article on the
This is the start of a series of post from a second research trip to Europe. This time we flew
As those familiar with the story of the life of William Bradford may already know, he lived in Leiden, Netherlands
The Humber is the tidal estuary from which Pilgrims (very likely including Bradford) made their escape to Holland. The traditional