ABSTRACT
This chapter examines landscapes and places as a source for understanding the past, sources that generally receive little attention in academic historiography. It analyses the inclusion of female protagonists in these constructions of the past for touristic purposes, and explore the interactions between academic histories and those place-driven narratives presented by tourism and heritage. Place is often employed in these domains as a historical source to support interpretations of the past which are relatively unchallenging and academically conservative, and which highlight triumphal eras such as the Burgundian Netherlands or Dutch Golden Age. Local and national narratives presented in tourism reinforce and create identities that in turn underpin and inform the stories that can be told, ones which have typically privileged male identities and obscured womens voices and experiences, even when images of women are highly visible within them.
