The nineteenth century is so back.
21.01.2026 17:21 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2@gerthuskens.bsky.social
Historian | MENA North-South Public Health Cooperation | Postdoc at Utrecht University | PhD at Université libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University | Diplomacy, Egypt & Levant, Global Belgium | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-2823
The nineteenth century is so back.
21.01.2026 17:21 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2This was very handy, thanks.
21.01.2026 16:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Silly me for thinking 2026 would be the year of precedented times.
04.01.2026 15:36 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No conclusions yet.
23.12.2025 20:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Am I engaging with the historiography, or am I actually constructing an overly intricate straw man argument?
Stay tuned for more updates.
how many more students will I hear on the train talking about how chatgpt is writing their thesis before I scream challenge
10.12.2025 12:45 — 👍 70 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 1Art of Darkness?🤔
04.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The statue was featured at the 1937 World Expo in Paris*
04.12.2025 09:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An image of the statue is prominently featured on the cover of Stanard, Matthew. 2023. The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium. Leuven: Leuven University Press. A summary of its history can be found on pages 160-162.
Via library.oapen.org/viewer/web/v...
Paris before it was installed at its current location in Etterbeek in 1962, two years after Congo’s independence. It’s one of the most contested displays of Belgian colonial art in the public space. Via collections.heritage.brussels/fr/objects/5...
04.12.2025 09:50 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Dupagne was an agent of mining company Société internationale forestière et minière du Congo (Forminière) between 1927 and 1935. Upon resettling in Belgium, he became one of the country’s most productive sculptors in the field of colonial propagandist art.
04.12.2025 09:50 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1So apparently Jeffrey Epstein had a taste for Belgian colonial art.
In the newly-released pictures of his estate we can see The Archer [Tireur à l'arc] by Arthur Dupagne (1895-1961).
Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism (with handy advice for anyone new to producing visualisations). thelausanneproject.com/2025/09/26/p...
29.09.2025 09:09 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@khowagayya.bsky.social you might like this
26.09.2025 12:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🔗 thelausanneproject.com/2025/09/26/p...
From obscure Belgian ophthalmologist to one of the contested sanitary experts.
In this blog on Dr. Pierre-Joseph Dutrieux’s cholera mission in 1883 Egypt, I demonstrate how networks, empires and epidemics intertwine.
Op dit moment werk ik een artikel af waarbij ik, onder andere, laat zien hoe het Belgische kolonisatieproject in Guatemala niet losstond van andere vormen van Europees imperialisme. Zo werd het Belgische experiment in Santo Tomas zelfs aanzien als een "model" voor de Franse kolonisatie van Algerije.
06.09.2025 19:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Needless to say, it was never realised. This is what the "city" looked like in 1844.
🗺️via uurl.kbr.be/1824398, digitized by @kbrbe
One of my favourite pieces of Belgian international history.
A plan for the Belgian colonial city of Santo Tomas de Guatemala, 1844.
A Foucauldian fever dream in Central America.
🗺️via uurl.kbr.be/1824400, digitized by @kbrbe.bsky.social
Als Brits diplomaat was Lord Ponsonby rond 1830 betrokken bij zowel de Uruguayaanse als de Belgische onafhankelijkheid?🇺🇾 🇧🇪
Ramiro Cabrera en Eva Moeraert maakten daarom de documentaire PONSONBYLAND.
En ik mocht iets vertellen over Ponsonby's latere carrière.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9yL...
On the imperial dimensions of the (inter alia) Belgian Revolution. Must read.
26.08.2025 21:40 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Elevator says no.
Als je jarenlang een verrottingsstrategie toepast op de federale instellingen, waaronder het Rijksarchief, dan breekt de veer uiteindelijk.
En daarom is één van onze belangrijkste archieven nu vleugellam door één (1!) kapotte lift.
standaard.be/binnenland/d...
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22.08.2025 08:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Quiz question. What former colony is this a flag from?
21.08.2025 08:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2On the bottom of Lake Aswan. Powered by the Dam. Imagine.
20.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New favourite article.
19.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A sensational document. The Final Act of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.
The birth document af the Scramle for Africa.
Now on display at the Musée du Quai Branly.
Omdat die filmpjes de complete leegheid zijn. Het is uit gemakzucht. Ze willen enkel kapitaliseren op de clicks en hun (ultra) nationalistische, soms pro-koloniale standpunt uiten. Ze geven geen zier om geschiedenis.
06.08.2025 20:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ik heb al veel AI blob gezien maar dit is toch een nieuw dieptepunt.
Een filmpje op het Instagram account the_dutch_archaeologist0 over de Belgische Revolutie.
Kijk naar die kaart en huiver.
With such great AI history being produced, historians will soon be out of work! 🙃
06.08.2025 10:18 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0