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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
What did the past smell like? And how does scent influence our culture? Biologist and philosopher Geerdt Magiels takes us to the stinking seventeenth century and to the nearly scent-free Low Countries of today.
Thanks to two biographies published at the same time, the Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Lorentz finally gets the attention he deserves.
Those who know where to look can read the history of the planet and the human race in trees and landscapes. Two researchers from the Low Countries, Salomon Kroonenberg and Valerie Trouet, tell the story of the earth, our past and perhaps al...
Five hundred years, ago painter Albrecht Dürer travelled through the Low Countries. That journey is now coming to life in an exhibition, several books and his own diary entries.
In mid-October 2017 the first completely 3D-printed concrete bicycle bridge opened to the world near ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. This is an innovative first which illustrates the great potential of this new technology.
Our best history stories of 2021, handpicked by the editor.
