In recent years, many testimonials from Bruges residents on specific subjects have been collected. They told their story and selections from the interviews could be listened to via audio or video via the website www.verhalenbankbrugge.be and www.brugseverhalen.be. However, technical problems forced us to take both websites offline. All interviews are kept in the Bruges City Archives and can be consulted there. Please contact Stadsarchiefbrugge.be for more information.

You can download the full list of interviewees here.

• 150 jaar lerarenopleiding KHBO (Vives)
• 175 jaar Spermalie (Interviews conducted in 2011-2012)
• Badkamercultuur in  Zeebrugge (Interviews conducted in 2005)
• Brugs Uurtje (Interviews conducted in 1989-1996)
• Brugs Uurtje (Interviews conducted in 1997-2002)
• Brugse Derbyverhalen Club en Cercle (Interviews conducted in 2013)
• Brugse migranten (Interviews conducted in 2014)
• Brugse sporthelden (Interviews conducted in 2011
• Cinema Bruges (Interviews conducted in 2007)
• Diamantslijpers in Brugge (Interviews conducted in 2008)
• Dudzele vertelt (Interviews conducted in 2005)
• Expo 58 (Interviews conducted in 2008)
• Georgestje (Interviews conducted in 2010)
• Kristus Koning vertelt (Interviews conducted in 2007)
• Leven rond de fabriek (Interviews conducted in 1998)
• Pelgrimsverhalen (Interviews conducted in 2011)
• Pinksteren Sint-Michiels 1944 (Interviews conducted in 2003)
• Poppenspel Den Uyl (Interviews conducted in 2013)
• Transit Zeebrugge (Interviews conducted in 2004)
• Tweede wereldoorlog in Brugge (Interviews conducted in 2008, 2009)
• Ver-Assebroek vertelt (Interviews conducted in 2010)
• Zwangerschap en geboorte (Interviews conducted in 2005)
• Zwembad Jan Guilini (Interviews conducted in 2008)
   

The Royal Institute for Language, Agriculture and Ethnology (kitlv) has the only interview collection on the post-war history of the Corps.
These were years of reconstruction and the eventual disbandment of the corps.

The interviews were conducted by G.C. Zijlmans for his dissertation Final struggle and downfall of the Indonesian administrative service: the corps Internal Administration on Java 1945-1950 (1985). The interviews portray the exceptionally difficult circumstances under which the corps had to work in 1945-1950.

The civil servants were confronted with politicisation of the Indonesian administration and militarisation on the Dutch side. In addition, there was the tension of a possible political and military confrontation with the Republic of Indonesia. The Zijlmans collection gives an impression of the adaptability and the functioning of the Dutch authority under these circumstances.

The 380 interviews were recorded on 130 audiocassettes. Because of the fragility of the cassettes, some of which were already badly damaged, the collection has now been digitised.

The digital catalogue of the Stichting Mondelinge Geschiedenis Indonesia (SMGI) contains summaries of 1190 interview sessions with 724 people. They form the access to a unique Dutch oral history collection on ‘the end of the colonial Dutch presence in Asia’.

Roughly speaking, they cover the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The oral history project was carried out by the Stichting Mondelinge Geschiedenis Indonesia, which was set up especially for this purpose. The entire collection can be consulted within the walls of the Leiden University Library (UBL).