Patricia Carson

Family

Short Biography

Honours

• The Eugène Baie Award 1977 for the Fair Face of Flanders.
• On 8 July 1996, Patricia Carson Van Caenegem was made a member of the Belgian nobility, with the personal title of Baroness.

  Publications

• "The Building of the first Bridge at Westminster", Journal of Transport History 3/2
• Guide to Materials for West African History in the Archives of Belgium and Holland, London, 1962
• Guide to the Materials for West African History in French Archives, London, 1968.
• The Fair Face of Flanders, Ghent 1969, reprinted 1969, 3rd revised edition 1974, for which she received the Baie prize; with a Dutch translation in 1977, a German in 1982 and a Bulgarian in 1984. A French translation by Mady Buysse, Le Miroir de la Flandre, appeared in 1973.
• "The British Connection", Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, nieuwe reeks, 28 ; translated as "Britten en Vlamingen", Neerlandia, 1975, nr. 1; and "Vlaanderen en Nederland vanuit een Brits standpunt gezien", Ons Erfdeel, 13/3.
• With Gaby Danhieux:
• * Ghent, a town for all seasons, Ghent 1972, translated as:
• * Gent, een stad van alle tijden, 2nd ed., Ghent, 1977,
• * Gand, ville de tous temps, Ghent 1972
• * Gent, eine Stadt aus allen Zeiten, Ghent, 1975, illustrated by Godelieve de Schrijver.
• James Van Artevelde : The man from Ghent, 1980.
• Flanders in Creative Contrasts, 1989, translated by H. Brondeel as
• * In Eindeloze Verscheidenheid: een historisch fresco van Vlaanderen, Lannoo and Davidsfonds.
• A new revised edition of The Fair Face of Flanders, in 4 languages including a new translation into Dutch was published in 1991 and republished in 1995 and 1997.
• A new revised Dutch edition of Gent, een stad van alle tijden, Lannoo, Tielt, 1992.
• A translation into Dutch by Marijke Brutsaert of James Van Artevelde, Davidsfonds, 1996.