The time of Daens: Newspaper

Daens' time symbolizes the miserable conditions in which workers and farmers worked and lived at the end of the nineteenth century. Priest Daens became the figurehead of the fight against this injustice. But who was Priest Daens? And who were those daensists?

Using a newspaper, written from the point of view of Pieter Daens, students learn more about the misery that workers faced at the end of the nineteenth century. Using images and sources, they discover how a new party was born and how the Daens brothers fought against injustice.