Links for King William III (Stadhouder Willem van Oranje-Nassau)
In the section on William III under "British History", the BBC website
has an overview of William's life by Tony Claydon HERE
and a different overview HERE
On the BBC One website, there is a set of videos
about William III entitled You thought you knew King Billy HERE
Much useful information about relationships between the Dutch Republic and Britain can be found on Prof. Gerard Koot's website for the History Department at the University of Massachusetts, for which the main page is HERE
An example of the excellent information to be found on that website is the summary of Jonathan Israel's book on the Dutch Republic. The summary can be downloaded from HERE
H-Net's Review of Walter Troost's book William III, the Stadholder-King can be found HERE
David Onnekink's thesis on the first Earl of Portland, Hans Willem Bentinck, The Anglo-Dutch Favourite is HERE
(PDF files are provided for the different sections of the thesis or click on the words volledig proefschrift
at the bottom of the page for the full thesis in PDF format). David Onnekink later published a book on the first Earl of Portland (Hans Willem Bentinck) and he also called the book The Anglo-Dutch Favourite. H-Net's review of that book is HERE
Thesis on Negotiating the Grand Alliance by M.B. Meerwijk (supervised by David Onnekink) is HERE
(only the short abstract is in Dutch, the thesis is in English, click on the words Open Access to read it)
The School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast,
gives an Irish perspective HERE
Note: if, for any reason, you are not able to access the BBC links shown at the top of the page
directly, search in Google for:
bbc british history william iii tony claydon
and later
bbc programmes one you thought you knew william iii
and you should be able to get at the overview and the videos quite easily.