A research project devoted to the Polish city of Lublin shows how odours and the way they are perceived provide new insights into everyday history and beyond. Social and political change is often, quite literally, “in the air”. Continue reading “How a smell may evolve into a stink”
Research teams in Innsbruck and Antwerp are exploring a still rather neglected subject – the phenomenon of pain from the perspective of 19th century Catholicism. At that time, religious traditions were supposedly at odds with medical developments in pain therapy – but the research results provide a different picture. Continue reading “History of pain between religion and medicine”
The historian and slavist Machteld Venken examines nationalising efforts during the interwar and post-war years in Polish-German and Belgian-German border regions. The focus of study is on children. Continue reading “Children as model citizens”