Keesing's Record of World Events

[1] Its purpose was to provide a detailed, factual and neutral account of events across all parts of the world.

[1][3] As the company expanded, in July 1931 he began to publish Keesing's Historical Archive as a periodical, subtitled "Illustrated Diary of Contemporary World Events with Constantly Updated Alphabetical Index".

The aim was to provide objective information on political and economic changes around the world, with an index updated to maintain its value as a reference work.

It appeared as a 16-page weekly magazine, published in Dutch, English, German and French.

[4] The Keesing family returned from the U.S. to Amsterdam after the Second World War, and continued to develop the Dutch and German versions, but until 1991 had no control over the English edition, which was taken over by an American company in 1996.