Content by tag : History
Take a large museum with a fascinating collection, located in an atmospheric period building. Add a small group of resourceful visitors.
Will citizen participation help steer Brussels through the coronavirus crisis? What's the history of the city's Pride parade?
Construction workers renovating a fountain in Verviers had a surprise when they found a box containing the heart of the city's first mayor.
"How do you know I’m not just going to run away with this?" I ask Stefan Leemans.
Coronavirus cancelled most events in Brussels for months on end, but the pandemic could not put paid to the city's oldest folkloric tradition this Sunday - the 712th annual planting of the Meyboom
This year 11 July falls on a Saturday, so what a shame that Vlaanderen Feest had to rein in its celebration because of the coronavirus.
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.
