History

Gabrielle Petit: First World War Spy

Gabrielle Petit was a Belgian woman who spied for the British Secret Service during the First World War.

Discover key events in Belgium’s history since it was first established as an independent nation in 1830.

Hortense Clews (born Hortense Daman) was a courageous member of the Belgian resistance movement in her teens, and a survivor of Ravensbrück.

The uplifting story of Augusta Chiwy, a nurse who displayed great courage in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

During the Wereth Massacre on December 17, 1944, 11 captured black US soldiers were shot by German SS troops.

A guest post on the topic of “Women and Horses in the First World War” by military historian Lucy Betteridge-Dyson.

The construction of the Menin Gate took place between 1922 and 1927 It commemorates Commonwealth soldiers who died during World War One.

Ypres was totally destroyed in the First World War yet took only 10 years to rebuild. Here’s the story of the Reconstruction of Ypres.

The Flemish village of Boortmeerbeek is the only place in Europe where a train transport of Jews was stopped by resistance fighters.

One of the most bizarre stories in European history concerns a small patch of land in eastern Belgium

I pay a visit to a mysterious megalithic stone circle deep in La Forêt de Soignes just outside Brussels.

On November 11th 1918, at 11 a.m., the First World War came to an end. What happened that day in Belgium? And afterwards?