Norma sifts through 300-year-old municipal council minutes in Wijk bij Duurstede: ‘Even then dog poop, favoritism and quarrels were on the agenda’

Norma sifts through 300 year old municipal council minutes in Wijk bij

Norma Mulder (74) from Wijk bij Duurstede is busy every Thursday morning: typing out the minutes of the municipal council meeting. But then the city council meetings of a few hundred years ago. She is now working on the year 1759. “Even then there was often quarreling and backbiting in politics.”.

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