Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Zeeland

Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Zeeland (SHOZ) is a Dutch foundation established on 20 December 1988. Its stated purpose is to build a fund for carrying out scholarly historical research concerning Zeeland and to disseminate research results through publications, exhibitions and similar means. The foundation pursues this goal in part by interesting sponsors and grant providers in its work. The foundation is an 'inwonende instelling' (resident institution) listed on the website of the Zeeuws Archief, the regional archive for Zeeland. It operates as a non-profit funding and facilitation body rather than as a commercial publisher or research institute, though it has helped make possible a number of historical publications. Among the publications it has supported are 'Zierikzee, acht eeuwen stad', a history of Zierikzee from early medieval settlement to the 21st-century city, published in 2021 by uitgeverij Het Paard van Troje to mark 800 years of city rights; and 'Jacob Hendrik Schorer (1760-1822), een Zeeuwse bestuurder in crisistijd' by Jan Zwemer, published in 2020 as volume 19 in the series Werken van het Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, which tells the history of Middelburg in the Batavian and French periods through the life of a Zeeland administrator. As a small regional heritage foundation, SHOZ does not sell products in the conventional commercial sense; its 'offerings' are the scholarly works and public history projects it enables. It is based in and focused on the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands.

Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Zeeland (SHOZ) was founded on 20 December 1988. It is a Dutch foundation (stichting) whose purpose is to form a fund for conducting scholarly historical research concerning Zeeland and to disseminate the results of that research through publications, exhibitions and similar means. The foundation seeks to achieve its aim in part by interesting sponsors and grant providers in supporting such work. The foundation is listed as an 'inwonende instelling' (resident institution) on the website of the Zeeuws Archief, the regional archive for the province of Zeeland, indicating a close institutional relationship with the provincial archival service. Over the years SHOZ has helped make possible a number of historical publications. Among them is 'Zierikzee, acht eeuwen stad', a history of Zierikzee from its early medieval settlement origins to the 21st-century city, published in 2021 by uitgeverij Het Paard van Troje on the occasion of 800 years of city rights. Another is 'Jacob Hendrik Schorer (1760-1822), een Zeeuwse bestuurder in crisistijd' by Jan Zwemer, published in 2020 as volume 19 in the series Werken van het Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen; it tells the history of Middelburg during the Batavian and French periods through the life of Jacob Hendrik Schorer, a member of a regent family who served in the city government under the old Republic and was invited by King Willem I in 1814 to become Governor (Commissaris des Konings) of Zeeland. As a small regional foundation, SHOZ does not maintain a large permanent staff or commercial operations; its role is that of a funding and facilitating body within the Zeeland historical and archival ecosystem.

• 2021

  'Zierikzee, acht eeuwen stad' is published by uitgeverij Het Paard van Troje, marking 800 years of Zierikzee city rights, with SHOZ support.

• 2020

  'Jacob Hendrik Schorer (1760-1822), een Zeeuwse bestuurder in crisistijd' by Jan Zwemer is published as volume 19 in the Werken van het Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen series, with SHOZ support.

• 1988

  Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Zeeland (SHOZ) is founded on 20 December 1988.

A non-profit regional heritage foundation that funds and facilitates scholarly historical research about Zeeland and brings its results to the public through books and exhibitions.

• 2021

  Zierikzee, acht eeuwen stad

  A history of Zierikzee from early medieval settlement to the 21st-century city, published on the occasion of 800 years of city rights.

• 2020

  Jacob Hendrik Schorer (1760-1822), een Zeeuwse bestuurder in crisistijd

  Tells the history of Middelburg in the Batavian and French periods through the life of Jacob Hendrik Schorer, a Zeeland administrator.

1. 1Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Zeeland – Zeeuws Archiefzeeuwsarchief.nl
2. 2Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Zeeland – Wikidatawikidata.org