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The town of Ypres was a major cloth producer in the middle ages, but we know very little about the people who put it on the map.
Several statues of Leopold II in Belgium have been defaced, knocked over or removed by authorities in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protest earlier this month.
At the beginning of the corona virus pandemic, staff at the Ghent City Archive decided to look back to the influenza pandemic of 1918 and see how their city had fared.
If archaeology is all about discovering the past, then the Aalter-Woestijne project must rate as one of the most successful digs ever carried out in Flanders.
Whether you want to watch a 1930s Hollywood musical, a 1920s German silent movie, a gritty documentary from the 1970s or just about any period and style film in pristine conditions, you'll f
With a new decade about to start, it’s worth pausing a moment to consider the flavour of the past 10 years.
The Ardennes town of Bastogne welcomed around 100,000 people this weekend to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the
The First World War centenary years saw media attention around the world turn to Ypres and the battlefields of West Flanders. With that attention brought a huge increase in tourists.
A remarkable collection of manuscripts assembled by Irish friars living in Leuven in the 17th century has been reunited, thanks to an international digitisation project.
