Newspaper Samples

The below samples show the wide variety of newspapers from the period of the First World War.

“An Flanderns Küste”, 1916-05-16 (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp)

“Ça et là”, 1917-09-01 (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels)

“De Oorlog De Ruebard”, 1915-03-04 (House of Literature, Antwerp)

“De Vlaamsche Leeuw”, 1916-02-01 (KU Leuven Libraries, Leuven)

“De waarheid”, 1917-02-25 (Amsab-Institute of Social History, Ghent)

“Door arbeid en volharding ter zege”, 1917-06-01 (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp)

“Gazette van Kortrijk”, 1916-07-15 (Kortrijk Public Library, Kortrijk)

“Gesets- und Verordnungsblatt für Wallonien”, 1918-01-21 (In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres)

“Het nachtlichtje”, 1905-03-29 (State Archives of Belgium, Brussels)

La Flandre libérale, 1918-12-30 (Liberal Archive, Ghent)

“Het nieuws van de week”, 1916-12-24 (KADOC Documentation and Research Center on Religion Culture and Society, Leuven)

“Hoogstudentenwerking tot zedelijk heil van onze jongens”, 1916-08-01 (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp)

“Illustrierter Kriegs-Kurier”, 1914 No 38 (Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke)

“La Belgique”, 1914-11-05 (Ghent University Library, Ghent)

“La guerre illustrée”, 1914-12-01 (In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres)

“Le peuple wallon”, 1918-07-20 (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels)

“Le Sport Belge”, 1914-10-23 (KU Leuven Libraries, Leuven)

“L’écho de Liège”, 1915-07-01 (In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres)

“Les Nouvelles de la Guerre” , 1915-11-15 (Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels)

“L’evenement illustre”, 1915-11-13 (Ghent University Library, Ghent / News of the Great War)

“L’Indépendance belge”, 1918-07-22 (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels)

“Nieuwe Gentsche courant”, 1917-10-09 (KU Leuven Libraries, Leuven)

“Ons blad Loopgrachten Grimberghen”, 1917-04-01 (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp)

“Ons Limburg”, 1916-12-01 (Library Hasselt Limburg, Hasselt)

“Revue de la Presse”, 1917 No 101 (State Archives of Belgium, Brussels)

“Télé-mail”, 1916-04-01 (Archives and Documentation Centre for Flemish Nationalism, Antwerp)

“The Wipers Times”, 1916-03-20 (Westflandrica Heritage Library, Kortrijk)

“Vive Namur pot to”, 1917 No 5 (Archives and Documentation Centre for Flemish Nationalism, Antwerp)

“Voor Vlaanderen”, 1917-12-01 (Archives and Museum of Flemish Life in Brussels, Brussels)

“Zondagsblad”, 1915-11-21 (Ghent University Library, Ghent)

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