Local Memory : Social remembrance of the Second World War in Flanders. This contribution aims to offer an alternative take on the canonical views on collective memories of World War II in Flanders and Belgium. This canonical memory literature is still strongly based on memory construction by elites and as such it often uses rigid political categories to define collective memories (Catholic vs. non-Catholic, Flemish vs. Walloon etc.). Using 197 interviews on the topics of collaboration, resistance, local government and postwar purges, the article tackles war memory ‘ from below’. The results show that local social networks predominantly determine these memories. For a large part, these local memories are detached from (scholarly) historic r...
Children of Flemish collaborators. Digital disclosure of the heritage of the past. After World War ...
From No-Man’s Land to the ‘Great Poppy Explosion’: Two Decades of Research into Belgium in the First...
Collective memory theories propose that groups' remembrances of their past depend upon their current...
The Resistance hardly features within public memory in Flanders and no descriptive catalogue of monu...
This article explores the relationship between two cultural memories in the postcolonial Netherlands...
This article examines the gradual deconstruction of the Belgian national identity. Is it possible to...
The forced recruitment of 148 000 men from Luxembourg, Lorraine, Alsace and Eupen-Malmedy into the W...
Between 1944 and 2019, the history of the German occupation of Belgium during the Second World War h...
This paper offers a preliminary comparative study of the construction and afterlife of four war memo...
Finding concrete information about military collaboration in the countries occupied by Germany durin...
For seventy-five years, the Second World War was constantly being commemorated, discussed and studie...
For seventy-five years, the Second World War was constantly being commemorated, discussed and studie...
This article addresses the commemorative practices in Flanders from World War I through World War II...
The First World War put very high strains on Belgian society. This article aims to make a comprehens...
Collective memory theories propose that groups' remembrances of their past depend upon their current...
Children of Flemish collaborators. Digital disclosure of the heritage of the past. After World War ...
From No-Man’s Land to the ‘Great Poppy Explosion’: Two Decades of Research into Belgium in the First...
Collective memory theories propose that groups' remembrances of their past depend upon their current...
The Resistance hardly features within public memory in Flanders and no descriptive catalogue of monu...
This article explores the relationship between two cultural memories in the postcolonial Netherlands...
This article examines the gradual deconstruction of the Belgian national identity. Is it possible to...
The forced recruitment of 148 000 men from Luxembourg, Lorraine, Alsace and Eupen-Malmedy into the W...
Between 1944 and 2019, the history of the German occupation of Belgium during the Second World War h...
This paper offers a preliminary comparative study of the construction and afterlife of four war memo...
Finding concrete information about military collaboration in the countries occupied by Germany durin...
For seventy-five years, the Second World War was constantly being commemorated, discussed and studie...
For seventy-five years, the Second World War was constantly being commemorated, discussed and studie...
This article addresses the commemorative practices in Flanders from World War I through World War II...
The First World War put very high strains on Belgian society. This article aims to make a comprehens...
Collective memory theories propose that groups' remembrances of their past depend upon their current...
Children of Flemish collaborators. Digital disclosure of the heritage of the past. After World War ...
From No-Man’s Land to the ‘Great Poppy Explosion’: Two Decades of Research into Belgium in the First...
Collective memory theories propose that groups' remembrances of their past depend upon their current...