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Brecht Deseure

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Postdoctoral researcher
Royal Library of Belgium

Dr. Brecht Deseure is an historian specialising in the political and cultural history of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in and after the revolutionary era. His research interests include political culture and iconography, the history of memory, constitutional history and the history of journalism. His dissertation (University of Antwerp, 2011) was on the politics of history pursued by the French republican and Napoleonic governments in Belgium. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and as a lecturer at various universities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. He is currently employed as lead of the FED-tWIN project CAMille - Centre d’archives sur les médias et l’information at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR).