Series
history
history
Derek Blyth
13 min reading time
Genk Mines Its Own Business
On a visit to the Flemish city of Genk, Derek Blyth discovers restored coal mines, cosmopolitan chickens and one of the world’s great love songs.
history
Republic of Amsterdam Radio
30 min reading time
#19 - No One Messes Around With John the Fearless
John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, asserted himself as the dominant power broker in the Low Countries of the late 14th, early 15th century, showing the ever-restless towns what might happen to them should they rebel against his authority.
Series
History of the Netherlands
history
Republic of Amsterdam Radio
1 min reading time
Deeds Not Words! Pioneers of Women’s Rights in Belgium and the Netherlands
Time to honour the women who have played a fundamental role in the development and progress of Low Country societies.
history
CODART
1 min reading time
Antwerp Nottebohm Room Opens to the Public
Starting this autumn, you can discover the prestigious library for the first time on your own.
Series
Newcomers to the North
history
Virginie Platteau
6 min reading time
‘t Grom Promotes Healthy Food Through Horticultural Heritage
The museum in the heart of the vegetable region near Mechelen presents forgotten horticultural material and cultivation methods of yesteryear in an interactive way.
history
Michiel Leen
19 min reading time
Hospitality, to an Extent. Refugees in the Netherlands
At the beginning of the First World War, one million Belgians fled to the Netherlands. “More so than the Afghans, Ukrainians now are more similar to Belgian refugees back then.”
Series
Our Colonial Legacy
history
Jonas Roelens
7 min reading time
Being a Lesbian Was a Dangerous Business in the Southern Netherlands
Women who liked women were punished more severely in the Southern Netherlands than elsewhere in Europe during the late Middle Ages and early modern times.
history
Twan Geurts
6 min reading time
Pope Adrian VI, the ‘Barbarian From the North’ Who Wanted to Reform the Vatican
Five hundred years ago, the Netherlands' first and only pope in history was appointed.
Series
Migration, the Other Way Around
history
Derek Blyth
2 min reading time
The Iconic British Regiment That Was Founded in Flanders
Few people know that the British Grenadier Guards got their start in Bruges.
language
Jordi Britton
4 min reading time
The Vital Role of Translation in the Black Lives Matter Era
Dutch Studies students wonder: "Is it appropriate for white students to translate texts about Black experiences of slavery?"
history
Duco van Oostrum
11 min reading time
How the Story of an Enslaved Boy Transformed Into a Shared Dutch History
The story of the enslaved boy Quaco, as described by his owner, the Dutch-Scottish army officer John Gabriel Stedman, puts the history of slavery in the Dutch colonies into a multilingual and transatlantic perspective.
history
Cyrille Offermans
5 min reading time
Frogs and Cheeseheads. The Image of the Dutch in Foreign Cartoons
Foreign cartoons from the 17th to the mid-19th century show that the Netherlands has not always had a very positive international image.
history
Megan Strutt
6 min reading time
What Does the British Library Tell Us About the Former Dutch Colony of Suriname?
Travelling through the British Library’s Dutch-Surinamese Collections via Johan Fretz’s ‘Onder de Paramariboom’.
history
Edo Dijksterhuis
6 min reading time
‘Normal’ Does Not Exist at the Haarlem Museum of the Mind
The psychiatry museum in Haarlem reinvented itself as a Museum of the Mind. It earned the institution the 2022 Museum of the Year Award.
history
Jessica den Oudsten
8 min reading time
The Obscured Story of Aspasia and Other Enslaved People in Dutch Archives
For a long time, the study of the history of Dutch slavery has been dominated by the perspective of the coloniser. More and more researchers are now trying to give enslaved people a voice.
history
Derek Blyth
2 min reading time
Simon Stevin, the Flemish Mathematician Who Gave America the Dime
In Bruges, Derek Blyth dwells on a brilliant sixteenth-century mathematician who was also known as 'the Belgian Archimedes' or 'the Leonardo Da Vinci of the Low Countries'.
history
Republic of Amsterdam Radio
23 min reading time
#18 - To Boldly Go for Brabant
Philip the Bold set the tone for a dynasty that was going to contribute so much to the emergence of a lowland culture and identity.
history
Marnix Verplancke
6 min reading time
How Belgium Helped Shape the British Identity
Britain and Belgium became culturally entangled as a result of their interaction in the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War.
history
Virginie Platteau
7 min reading time
At Bokrijk the Past Inspires the Present
The Flemish rural life of yesteryear teaches us important lessons for today and tomorrow.
history
Virginie Platteau
6 min reading time
Journey Through the Glorious History of Bruges at the Gruuthuse Museum
The former 15th-century city palace is a unique museum where you can discover Bruges' rich past.
