From March 13th to 16th, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) participated in the latest edition of the EUTopia Peak Event in Legal History, hosted this year at the University of Warwick. This year’s CoLeCo (Connected Learning Community) centered on the theme of Individual and Collective Rights, bringing together students from four EUTopia universities to explore historical and contemporary perspectives on the balance between personal freedoms and communal responsibilities. We set off for the Peak Event early in the morning, boarding a Eurostar train at Brussels-Midi bound for London. As we traveled beneath the Channel, anticipation grew for the days ahead, and the journey provided the perfect opportunity to connect with each other; since this year’s Brussels cohort had not met properly before. Upon arrival in the British capital, we took the opportunity to immerse ourselves in history, visiting the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum. Walking through the halls of these ...
The area of the West Midlands is sometimes overlooked as an unattractive, grey and dull industrial region, but this could not be further from the truth as the region, and especially Coventry has a rich and vibrant history, especially in the area of assembly. The city has gone through times of prosperity, which are still visible today, as well as times of turbulence, especially within the dark chapter of the Second Great War. Nevertheless, the people stood defiant and as a result we were able to experience the beauty of medieval England as well as the English countryside. Our story begins long before setting foot in old Blighty. Back in Slovenia, armed with a unique research topic and an inquisitive spirit, we went adventuring through the dusty corridors of various archives of Slovenia and other Habsburg domains. From the national archive in Ljubljana, to a regional archive in Maribor, and an autonomous archive of the Slovene Bar association, all the way to the archives in Aus...