Conceptions on how history should be taught in secondary education have changed profoundly in recent years. Teachers should now focus on the development of pupils' historical thinking, in contrast to ...read more
This research brings for the first time a critical historical analysis of one of the largest national military museums in the world, the Royal Military Museum in Brussels. With a ...read more
The proposed research aims to historicize the concept of sites of memory as places where the memory of a specific historical event (or a set of events) is anchored. This ...read more
The research focuses on emotional expressions of juvenile delinquents in state reformatories between 1890 and 1965. Using discourse analysis of ego-documents, a synchronic in-depth analysis investigates how the minors navigated ...read more
The aim of STREAM is to develop a research infrastructure for early modern Flanders and Brabant (c. 1550-1800). STREAM is designed to protect and facilitate access to a multitude of ...read more
This research project aims to respond to the knowledge gap on contextual diversity in transitional justice on the one hand and the lack of empirical studies on the nature and ...read more
Art historians continually use concepts of art, i.e., they continually distinguish between art and non-art. Before initiating their art historical inquiries, they have to decide which items are eligible for ...read more
In 1877 the Austro-Hungarian Hugó Meltzl warned his colleagues: “As every unbiased man of letters knows, modern literary history, as generally practiced today, is nothing but an ancillahistoriae politicae ...read more