Cold War

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CegeSoma Annual Reports

If you would like an annual overview of the activities, publications,...

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Ctrl-Alt-History: (Digital) Humanities meets AI

Registration for Contemporary History Day 2026 now open!...

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Workshop Report: “The Korean War and Belgium”

On 19 September 2025, CegeSoma organized a workshop entitled “The Korean War...

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Workshop report: New Critical Perspectives on Communists and Communism in Belgium.

On Wednesday, 22 October 2025, an international workshop was held at...

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Onvoltooid verleden. Spanje onder en na Franco. (Unfinished Past. Spain under Franco and after Franco.)

Conference (in Dutch) with guest Vincent Scheltiens Ortigosa. Interview by Widukind De Ridder...

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Inventory of the CegeSoma's 'Diaries and Manuscripts' Collection. Acquisitions 1969-2018.

The CegeSoma's 'Diaries and Manuscripts' Collection is largely freely...

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Inventory of the archives of journalist Alain de Prelle de la Nieppe

The inventory of...

Group photo taken during the first Saint Nicholas party of Les Invalides Prévoyants organised at the Œuvre des "Petites Abeilles" by the Cercle "Le Turgouin". 1941. (547-2814 AA2218, no. 39). Reserved rights CegeSoma/State Archives.

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Inventory 'Les Invalides Prévoyants' and Inventory 'Les Enfants de la Patrie/De Kinderen van het Vaderland' : two closely related associations

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1952 photo of a group of soldiers from the Belgian Korea Battalion (all rights reserved)

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The Korean War and Belgium

On 25 June 1950, troops from communist North Korea invaded capitalist South...

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Cold War theme issue

The new double issue (No. 3-4) of the Journal of Belgian History is a...

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Brussels toponymy, past and future

On 14 November 2024, a study day at CegeSoma brought together some fifteen...

German Hall or Trophy Room, second half of the 1930s (© WHI)

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The Royal Military Museum: a lively place for history

Conference-debate in Dutch with guest Wannes Devos. A talk led by Bruno De Wever.

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Rights, capabilities, and the making of citizens : Jewish immigrants in Israel

Adina Babesh-Fruchter began conducting research...

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Young Historian's Day (Promotions of 2019-2025)

Below you will find the abstracts of the different papers. If you are...

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Archival Research into the Economic Aspects of the Cold War

Faced with international pressure and pressure from within, countries are...

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Scènes de Crimes. La photographie policière, témoin de l'enquête judiciaire. (Crime Scenes Police photography, a witness to the judicial investigation)

Conference-debate (in French) with guests, Laurence Druez, Xavier Rousseaux and Police Commissioner...

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