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Recuperation, Revival and Survival. A Humanitarian Lace-Aid Programme in Occupied Belgium during the First World War

Wendy Wiertz
First World War
Social History
2022 4
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MATT HAULTAIN-GALL The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory. Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend Victoria, Monash University Publishing, 2021, xvii + 317 p.

Dominiek Dendooven
Commemorations (WW I)
First World War
Local history
2021 4
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De Caporetto à Robermont. Les itinéraires des prisonniers de guerre italiens en Belgique pendant et après la Première Guerre mondiale.

Pierre Lannoy

Pierre Lannoy (docent bij de Faculté de Philosophie et sciences sociales aan de Université Libre de Bruxelles) legt een ‘vergeten geschiedenis’ bloot, door te kijken naar de aanwezigheid en inzet van Italiaanse krijgsgevangenen die na de slag om Caporetto in oktober-november 1917 werden geïnterneerd in bezet België.

German Occupation Regime (WW I)
First World War
2021 4
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Lions and kangaroos : mobilising the Anzac legend in the Ypres salient

Matthew Haultain-Gall

In 1936, the Australian War Memorial acquired two stone lions that once guarded the Menin Gate entrance to the Belgian town of Ypres. The Memorial’s director, John Treloar, felt the Memorial had scored a “great scoop” because of their “historical value”. However, when the lions arrived in Canberra, it was apparent the damage they sustained during the war meant they would need to undergo some form of restoration. Unfortunately, little progress was made in this endeavour for several decades and the lions did not end up going on permanent display until 1991.

First World War
Politics of Memory
Diplomatic History
2021 1-2
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Identities Lost and Found in the Commemorative Landscapes of the Great War

Karen Shelby

By their very nature, national building programs legitimize and ennoble some groups and exclude and silence others. This is underscored in commemorative architecture, which visually amplifies messages of communal belonging or separation. In the First World War, the burial and sacrifices of soldiers in the Indian Expeditionary Forces and those employed in the Chinese Labor Corps were subsumed into a topography of a British remembrance practice.

Commemorations (WW I)
First World War
2021 1-2
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Routes of Remembrance: exploring the Ypres Salient and its battlefields, 1919-1939

Mark Connelly & Tim Godden

As a focal point of British military operations during the First World War, Ypres attracted large numbers of British visitors. The sites of memory scattered across the battlefields of Ypres were created by the events of the war. However, their continuing profile, status and significance was very much shaped by the way visitors explored the district. A number of interlocking elements relating to individual, and group, interests and practical issues of access and movement influenced the evolution.

Commemorations (WW I)
Politics of Memory
First World War
2021 1-2
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Julie Podevyn and Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde “Ce n’est pas la loi qu’il faut changer, c’est la mentalité” Ypres Tribunal for War Damages (1918 -1935): intermediary for a city in reconstruction

Julie Podevyn & Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde

In January 1919, Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) chaired a session of the Imperial War Graves Commission in London during which he declared that the destroyed city of Ypres was a symbol for the suffering of the British Empire. He intended to keep the centre of Ypres in permanent ruins, as holy ground and a “zone of silence”. Initially, Belgium’s government supported the idea, which was firmly disapproved by the local Ypres population. Moreover, since 1916, state officials had drafted plans to reconstruct the country through several institutions.

First World War
Judicial History
2021 1-2
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The Ypres Salient: Rebuilding and remembering "the Devil's playground"

Delphine Lauwers & Matthew Haultain-Gall
Commemorations (WW I)
Politics of Memory
First World War
2021 1-2
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Burgemeesters in de vuurlinie. Lokale bestuurders in België en Noord-Frankrijk tijdens de Duitse invasie in 1914

Jan Naert

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First World War
Activism (WW I)
Local Government
2020 3-4
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MARK CONNELLY & STEFAN GOEBEL, Ypres, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, xxviii + 257 p.

Maarten Van Alstein
First World War
Commemorations (WW I)
2019 2-3
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JAN DE VOLDER, Cardinal Mercier in the First World War. Belgium, Germany and the catholic church.(Kadoc studies on religion, culture and society), Leuven, University Press, 2018, 262 p.

Luc Vandeweyer
Catholicism
First World War
2019 2-3
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Mijn man moet dagelijks zoowel zijn leven te pand stellen voor het Vaderland als de andere”. Nationale identificatie in armenbrieven uit bezet België, 1914-1918 -

Dominique De Groen en Antoon Vrints
National Identity
First World War
Social History
2020 2
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