Herman de Tollenaere

Herman de Tollenaere completed a MA in social and economic history at Leiden University, with sociology of education as a minor subject. His PhD thesis, The Politics of Divine Wisdom (1996), is about 19th-20th century colonial history in Asia, especially Indonesia. His Het Witte Zuidpoolboekje (1993) is about the Antarctic. He worked at the history and art history departments of the libraries of Leiden University and of Ghent University in Belgium. Editor of Pin fanzine, since 1978. Co-founder of Rock Against Racism in the Netherlands in 1978. Male half of lead vocals, and toy saxophone in Cheap ‘n’ Nasty. They played their first concert in March 1980 with Crass and Poison Girls. At the 2020 PSN global conference, he presented a paper about the role of people of mixed Dutch-Indonesian ancestry in early Dutch punk. Presently, he is doing research on the relationship between punk and anarchism in the Netherlands, 1977-1982.