Lectori Salutem

Abstract

We would like to begin this issue by thanking our readers, authors and reviewers for the very positive feedback that we had on the new format of Dutch Crossing. It confirms the progress our journal has made and encourages us to go ahead along this path. The transition to the new publisher, Maney, went smoothly and our professional relationship with them is developing very promisingly. In close partnership, we continue to take the journal forward and will seek to strengthen not only its role as a forum for both younger as well as senior scholars, but to reach out and expand our readership beyond its traditional audiences, reflecting both the interdisciplinary and transnational direction of Dutch Crossing and the position of the Low Countries at the crossroads between the Anglophone, Francophone and German-speaking cultures. Obviously, not every aspect can be covered in every issue of Dutch Crossing. Still, the current number reflects the diversity of interests of our readership and the richness of Low Countries studies. Hentie Louw (Newcastle) opens the issue by examining the cultural exchanges in the field of architecture between Britain and the Dutch Republic in the late 17 th and early 18 th