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Georges Eekhoud: the Belgian Maxim Gorki

The Belgian author Georges Eekhoud (1854 – 1927), who lived in Flanders but wrote in French, was one of the first authors who wrote positively about homosexuality. Eekhoud’s personal library is a key collection in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library.

Forgotten chansons de geste?

New acquisition of a rare 16th-century romance of chivalry

Recently a rare copy of a Dutch epic poem (chanson de geste) printed in 1576 in Antwerp turned up at an auction. With the help of the Patronage Fund for Books and Literature the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience acquired this copy of the romance of Roncevale.

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Painters & Writers: 50 years of gallery De Zwarte Panter

Gallery De Zwarte Panter has reached its fiftieth year. Painters & Writers provides an impressive overview of 117 book illustration collections and artists’ books that have been published since the gallery's opening.

Engramzine

Engramzine is een Belgische site met artikels over boekbanden en hun geschiedenis of de neerslag van hun creatieproces en/of de biografie van de binders.

Literom

Bijna 200.000 recensies en auteursartikelen, toegang tot zowel Literom Nederlandstalige literatuur als Literom wereldliteratuur.

Tijd-schrift : erfgoedpraktijk in Vlaanderen

Ongeveer 150 artikels over erfgoedpraktijken zoals heemkunde, familiegeschiedenis, cultuur van alledag of metaaldetectie.

Wegwijzer voor bibliotheken en documentatiecentra

De Wegwijzer voor bibliotheken en documentatiecentra bundelt kennis over informatiebeheer, van ontsluiting via catalogen tot juridische zaken als copyright, en reikt informatie aan voor een efficiënt bibliotheek- en documentatiebeheer.

Google Books in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library

Beyond the pandemic

In February 2020, we announced that Google Books, the Hendrik Conscience Library and the Plantin-Moretus Museum were starting a project to digitize 100,000 books from our collections that are in the public domain. Just a few days later, the country went into lockdown. How has the project proceeded over this eventful year?

The Fragment of John Holt’s grammar 'Lac puerorum or Mylke for Chyldren'

A blogpost by Dr. Hedwig Gwosdek

This short paper is a preliminary contribution to my study on John Holt’s grammar 'Lac puerorum or Mylke for Children'. As school texts of the sixteenth century and beyond are extremely rare, this copy deserves to be examined in more depth in a scholarly article. I hope to be able to examine it in person in the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience in the near future.