How can we define Walloon culture? That is the question that runs through the book Histoire culturelle de la Wallonie (Cultural History of Wallonia), which emphasises the cultural richness of southern Belgium.

Should it be up to political authorities to define historical truth in order to preserve, through the threat of criminal sanctions, the collective memory? La concurrence mémorielle (Memorial Competitions), a work whose publication is timely.

The oldest album brought forth by francophone Belgian comic strips is Le Déluge à Bruxelles, an album ‘in the Italian style’ which was published in 1843. A high angle perspective on the origins of an art often termed national.

With A Musical History of Rock, published by Fayard, Christophe Pirenne has signed off on a rich work, thought through and multidisciplinary, on popular music from 1954 until the present day.

In his doctoral thesis Renaud Adam retraces the history of the first printers to establish themselves in the southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège and analyses their integration into the society at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.