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Hospitality, to an Extent. Refugees in the Netherlands
27 October 2022
At the beginning of the First World War, one million Belgians fled to the Netherlands. About one hundred thousand remained there throughout the war, most of them in large camps. The Netherlands showed itself to be hospitable, but there was much to be said about the conditions in the refugee camps. W
The American War Years of Art Nouveau Architect Victor Horta
4 February 2022
When Victor Horta was forced to flee during the First World War, his exile became an opportunity to raise funds for poor little Belgium. The famous Belgian architect, who is known for his art nouveau houses, travelled to the United States to give lectures on the German atrocities. During his stay, H
The Spanish Flu in the Netherlands. Like A Scythe Across the Country
27 March 2019
One hundred years ago the world encountered a Spanish flu pandemic which cost an estimated 50 to 100 million lives. That is many times the death toll of World War I, in whose wake the disease arose. It was the greatest and most deadly disease since the plague in the middle ages. But in the Netherlan
The Great War Revisited
25 March 2019
Over the past four years, numerous events - intense and sometimes deafening - have been held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great War (1914-1918). This anthology brings together some of the finest essays we have published over the last decade focusing on a war which cast such a long shadow ove
‘You Know Where Your Grave Is, Don’t You?’
20 March 2019
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of people have visited the scars left by the First World War along the French-Belgian Front. More than ever before, in fact. But war tourism is not a new phenomenon. In the spring of 1919, as the first inhabitants of the devastated border area returned, tourist
