Een hoger onderwijsstaking die het beleid geen pijn doet is cosplay – Jacobin Vorige week was er een staking in het hoger onderwijs. 7000 academici en studenten trokken naar Amsterdam, maar niemand leek echt acht te slaan op de staking. Want hoewel de universiteiten de staking ...

Wrote about the Dutch higher education crisis and why a strike without suspending exams or classes is just cosplay. @jacobinnl.bsky.social

jacobin.nl/een-hoger-on...

Ook in Brussel vorige week zag je het gevolg (of eerder non-gevolg) van een ‘pijnloze’ staking van HO. Maar: een staking die wél pijn doet aan beleid, doet dat in 1e instantie aan huidige studenten. Een nobele zaak op de lange termijn, zeker, maar ook een stevige opoffering om van hen te vragen...

The special issue, planned for print in March 2026, features articles by Torsten Feys on Belgium, Laurent Tissot on Lausanne, Sigrid Wadauer on Austria, Kevin James (twice) and Alan McNee on the UK, and myself on Antwerp - of course. Warmly recommended!

Introduction – Controlling mobile guests where they rest. Comparative perspectives on hotel registration in Europe, 1840s–1930s At the intersection of tourism and migration history, this special issue focuses on the roles of registration documents and practices in European hotels during the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

So happy that our special issue 'Controlling mobile guests where they rest' is online at @imm-min-journal.bsky.social! It shows how hotel registration offers us a powerful lens on the entangled histories of migration & tourism, touching on important politics, people and performances often neglected👇

Effectief!

📢 Nieuwe publicatie!

Jasper Segerink onderzoekt in “Een nacht in de stad” hoe trans-Atlantische migranten (1850–1914) tijdelijk verbleven in Antwerpen en welke sporen ze nalieten.

Meer informatie op de website van HistoriANT:
gvag.be/historiant/2...

Prices and Crises

New book publication ❗ 📖

Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique.

It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿

#medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges

For the contents, see below 👇

For the past few months, I have been using Obsidian, and I'm loving it. It is free, open access, easy to use, and allows you to link notes to each other. 🤯

Yesterday, the news broke that the Flemish government will end funding for @iobua.bsky.social in just 3 months! This risks students’ futures, 32 staff careers, & undermines a cornerstone of Belgium’s hard-won international scientific reputation. A short-sighted decision with lasting consequences...

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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Bringing Dead Victorians Back to Life: What Coroner’s Inquests Can Teach Us about Victorian Working-Class Homes In June 1894, in her kitchen at 17 Lomas Street in the town of Burnley, Lancashire, Mary Ann Allen was murdered with an axe by William Crossley, one of her

Earlier this year, Vicky Holmes published 'Living with Lodgers. Household Economy and Social Relations in Working-Class Victorian England'. It is a great book that not only rescues the lodger from the mists of history, but also invites us to question Victorian household ideals. Highly recommended!👇

Loved the Pfälzer Wandermusikanten workshop @ Kusel! The Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde brilliantly connected 'academic' with 'local' historians. The castle setting and hearing the music performed live by the Kusel Music Academy were unforgettable experiences. A 🧵 following soon..

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Archief Stadsgeschiedenis | Leuven University Press Nummers van het tijdschrift ‘Stadsgeschiedenis’ van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download. Klik op het nummer voor de downloadlink. 2006 – 1 > 2006 – 2 > 2007 – 1 > 2007 – 2 > 2008 – 1 > ...

🔗Archief Stadsgeschiedenis nu digitaal!
Het archief van het tijdschrift Stadsgeschiedenis is nu digitaal toegankelijk! Nummers van het tijdschrift van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download.
Het digitale archief is hier te vinden: lup.be/archief-stad...

🌍 Toerisme: zegen of last?
Al in 1926 dachten Belgen aan een “taks op vreemdelingen” toen toeristen het land overspoelden.
🖋️ Lees de nieuwe CSG-blog van Silke Geven over de geschiedenis van klachten én maatregelen rond toerisme:

www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

(Sorry if obvious 😅)

Dominiek Dendooven has a great thesis on the (de)mobilisation of Indians and Chinese at the Belgian front!
"Asia In Flanders Fields. A Transnational History of Indians and Chinese on the Western Front, 1914-1920"
repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/...

Susan Monarez, de wetenschapper in het oog van de storm: ‘Dit zou elke Amerikaan bang moeten maken’ Een nieuwe dag, een nieuw ontslag in het ‘Land of the Free’. Het Witte Huis zegt het hoofd van de gezondheidsdienst CDC de wacht aan. Maar de kersverse topvrouw wijkt niet. ‘Minister Kennedy brengt mi...

Voor diegenen die denken dat de systematische afbouw van onderzoek en hoger onderwijs enkel een zorg is voor de humane wetenschappen 👇

📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now.
Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory

📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now.
Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory

What is the difference between a historian and a sociologist? A long time scale and bad data.

Perhaps a bit reductive but on point what the data concerns 🤣 Sam Bass Warner being interviewed by Bruce Stave in the first issue of Journal of Urban History in 1974

From the editor's desk...

... if anyone is thinking about writing an article on Arnold Schwarzenegger, we would love to see it.

Ik voel me bijzonder vereerd seg. Dankje! 😁

How we shape research projects, and how they shape us - A lodging house guy’s reflection by Jasper Segerink - Social History Blog Urban and social history projects on infrastructures, migrants, lodging houses in 19th-century Belgium.

🖋️ For the Social History Blog, I wrote a piece on the often banal reasons that research (and especially PhD)-projects pivot, and the implications this has for our craft. Hopefully this can also offer some reassurance for new PhD-students..
A lodging house guy's reflection 👇

Serieuzer nu: het zou wel fijn zijn als onze journalistiek iets kritischer zou omspringen met de verkoopspraatjes van techbros

Uhu Ok 👍

:.,!?; De Wereld van Sofie · Episode

De puntkomma is aan het verdwijnen! Toch worden er in De Wereld van Sofie enkele mooie argumenten aangehaald voor het behoud ervan.
Ik maak me ook wel es schuldig aan overvloedige ;'s...

Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society's most important questions. In this work, ...

Source: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935