On Thursday December 3rd, HOST member Janna Everaert succesfully defended her doctoral thesis called "Power in the metropolis. Political elite formation during the demographic and economic boom phase...
Yannis Skalli-Housseini joins HOST as a PhD student on the project 'Fiscal policy and social inequality in the 18th century Austrian Netherlands (1749-1794)', supervised by prof. dr. Wouter Ryckbosch...
Have you always wanted to know everything about the history of gutters, cesspits and toilets? Now you get a unique opportunity with the latest book by HOST member Heidi Deneweth ! In "Goede muren...
November 3rd, we welcomed Robin Rose Southard into the fold! Rose is joining our team as a doctoral student working on the following project: Organization of the Urban Food Supply (1550-1800):...
CALL FOR PAPERS ANOTHER PEEK AT THE NEIGHBOURS’ GRASS New social and economic history research in Belgium and the Netherlands Workshop Friday 19 February 2021 VUB Brussels Under the auspices of the N...
The Make-Up of the City project, led by HOST member Bart Lambert , has started its analysis of 1200 skeletons from a late medieval urban cemetery. Read all about it in their latest blog post .
Historians from all Flemish universities collaborated to write a common opinion piece in the daily newspaper De Standaard, concerning the infamous "Flemish canon" (=a list of historical, cultural '...
HOST member Kristof Loockx's newest publication has appeared in the International Journal of Maritime History . Check it out! Migration trajectories of seafarers during the transition from sail to...
Check out this online article (written in Dutch), published in the most recent edition of EOS Science. HOST members Bart Lambert and Wouter Ryckbosch , together with Nel De Mûelenaere, write about...
The online news site Daily Science Brussels devoted an article (in dutch) on the recently started research project 'Make-up of the City' , in which HOST is a partner. You can visit the page via this...
Recently, the website and Facebook page of the new, interdisciplinary research project 'Make-up of the City' has been launched. Several research groups at the Vrije Universeit Brussel are...
Since the coronavirus affects public meetings in Belgium and many more countries worldwide, PhD defences are to be held online, as was also the case with the defence of Kristof Loockx. Despite this...
On wednesday 29th April, HOST-member Thomas Verbruggen successfully defended his PhD thesis. In his dissertation called 'Maids on the Move': The Migration of Foreign Domestic Servants to Antwerp and...
PhD Fellows Ayfer Erkul and Dennis De Vriese present their respective research in an interview taken by Brussels newspaper BRUZZ. While Erkul delves into the archives to study the interaction between...
