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A Walk Along the Western Front

6 November 2023

Every year on 11 November, huge crowds gather under the Menin Gate in Ypres to hear the Last Post played in memory of those who died in the First World War. But most people do not stray far beyond the walls of the ancient Flemish town. If they did, they would find an astonishing number of cemeteries

How Belgium Helped Shape the British Identity

12 August 2022

From Waterloo to the Westhoek, the Belgian soil is full of British corpses. Professor of English Literature and Culture Marysa Demoor has explored the very close links between the two nations; links that could even be considered decisive in the development of British identity. The relationship was n

Asians on the Western Front: The Forgotten Soldiers of World War I

5 November 2019

About a quarter of a million Asians were present on and near the front in Belgium and Northern France during the First World War. What they saw, and how they experienced the war not only bolstered their self-esteem but also jeopardised the idea that western civilisation was the leading light to foll

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

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