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An outstanding new museum in the heart of Bruges opens its doors today. St John’s Hospital, one of the oldest and best-preserved hospital buildin

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections.

Artists like Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hendrick Avercamp documented locals' resilience in the face of freezing winters and food shortages

Servants are an unknown quantity at the heart of the Grand Tour, one of the most elite topics in eighteenth-century historiography. If each noble or genteel traveler brought at least one employee, then more people knew this kind of travel as a period of work than as a rite of passage or an early form of tourism.In this talk, Richard Ansell will introduce this hidden majority through four texts that appear in his forthcoming volume, Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People. Thes...

The Messerschmitt Bf 110 was not the best or the worst of the combat aircraft to see service during the Second World War.

EWTN Chairman of the Board and CEO Michael Warsaw said that Father Leyds was ‘an amazing man and fully dedicated to bringing the mission of EWTN to the Low Co...

In January 1492 – the same year that Columbus was landing in the New World – a momentous event was happening in the Old World.

The Dutch government no longer refers to the entire country of the Netherlands as “Holland” anymore. Here’s the difference between Netherlands and Holland.

Immigration, both legal and illegal, has been a contentious issue in the U.S. for more than a hundred years and now is taking a particularly central role in the 2024 election. This is a complex economic issue that affects nearly everyone in the U.S., whether they know it or not. Effects are diverse. Many people’s […]

EVER since Japan's entrance into the family of modern nations in the middle of the nineteenth century her diplomacy has striven, and still strives, to attain two objectives -- equality and security. The first has been almost, but not entirely, attained; the second has for seven decades been the absorbing problem of the nation and will evidently remain such for long years to come. I