Before the International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed, the American literary marketplace was saturated with unauthorized reprints of British texts. Neither British nor American authors had any legal claim ...read more
From the perspective of Intelligence Studies, Studies in Belgian Intelligence uses an interdisciplinary methodology to approach both past and present of Belgian intelligence, to identify the underlying factors that are ...read more
According to historical anthropometry, average height is one of the best measures to study well-being of a society. Since height is mainly an indicator of social and economic conditions during ...read more
Building on the latest innovations in digital humanities, network analysis, and elaborating a newly developed Virtual Research Environment for the study of international organizations, TIC Belgium opens new perspectives on ...read more
In the past, Belgium has played a pioneering role in prison design. Despite the growing interest in the history of prison architecture abroad since the 1970's, the study of ...read more
The project explores Japanese interpretations of the culture and philosophy of the European Renaissance. Spanning the history of Japanese historiography on this topic - from the Meiji Restoration to the ...read more
The POPPKAD project focuses on the study of owners and landownership relations. Its aim is to develop a digital land register for different regions of Belgium in the middle of ...read more
HISSTER aims to generate and develop a central database of historical statistics concerning Belgian mortality available at the local level since 1830. While the 20th century was the main focus ...read more
This project sheds light on the art world in Belgium and the Netherlands in the 1st half of the 19th century, and the role nationhood played in it. The PhD ...read more
This research project focusses on the changing relationship between the police and the public in Antwerp between 1840 and 1914. In the second half of the nineteenth century the port ...read more