The Scandalous Suspension of Foekje Dillema
Dutch athlete Foekje Dillema was suspended for life because she was supposedly not really a woman.
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Dutch athlete Foekje Dillema was suspended for life because she was supposedly not really a woman.
A broad knowledge of languages is important and translations are an essential part of Dutch literature, writes Lotte Jensen in her column.
Jail time and corporal punishment were just two of the severe punishments meted out to naughty students in the past.
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.
Cultural historian Lotte Jensen recounts how she has seen the consequences of climate change with her own eyes.
The flamboyant archer won nine Olympic medals for Belgium.
No matter where you are in the world, the 1928 Olympic Games that were held in Amsterdam have left their mark.
The Netherlands was long considered more progressive in cinema than Belgium. Surprisingly enough, film censorship was more robust in the Netherlands than in Belgium.
If you’re not Dutch, you’re not much. Does that vision correspond with how other people view the inhabitants of the Low Countries and their language? Or is the picture more nuanced?
An interactive walking route aims to bring the Olympic past of the port city back to life.
An exhibition in Mechelen shows portraits of young Habsburg princes and princesses that tell us a lot about the political powers struggles of sixteenth-century Europe.
The Dutch swimmer won four medals at the 1936 Olympics, which went down in history as a propaganda event for the Nazis.
Huib Billiet Adriaansen wrote an exciting book about the shared history of Cuba and Belgium since the early sixteenth century.
Between the two world wars, a strange kind of snobbery arose among the Colombian elite: the siren call of distant Brussels.
The Bible on which Joe Biden swore his oath has a four-hundred-year history that reaches back to a biblical translation that originated in the Low Countries.
The city held the title in 2000 but did not make an overwhelming impression on the outside world.
He was admired by Rosa Luxemburg and visited by Bakunin, Marx and Engels, yet almost no one knows his name today. Nevertheless, Jacob Kats was one of the founders of socialism in the turbulent nineteenth century.
The work of Dutch landscape photographer Saskia Boelsums is inspired by the rich painting tradition of the Old Masters.
Britain and Belgium became culturally entangled as a result of their interaction in the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War.
The Flemish rural life of yesteryear teaches us important lessons for today and tomorrow.
The former 15th-century city palace is a unique museum where you can discover Bruges' rich past.
From the Haegse Mercury in 1697 to De Speld in 2022: how daring is Dutch satirical news?
In late medieval Flanders, women played an influential role in wars. Not as soldiers on the battlefield, but as messengers or spies.
Women who liked women were punished more severely in the Southern Netherlands than elsewhere in Europe during the late Middle Ages and early modern times.
Five hundred years ago, the Netherlands' first and only pope in history was appointed.