Projects

Ongoing projects

DH-CoDe – Digital Historical Collection of Court Depositions from the Southern Low Countries (18th-19th centuries)

Interdisciplinary Research Program: Cities and Newcomers: Arrival infrastructure, multi-scalar statehood and professional intermediaries

Interdisciplinary Research Program: Tradition and naturalness of animal products within a societal context of change

Surviving old age: coping strategies of the elderly labouring poor in Gent, Brussels and Antwerp, 1750-1850.

HOTSPOTS – Social Hotspots, Procesdossiers als bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de vroegmoderne Nederlanden

Watching the migrants. Police and migration in Brussels, c. 1880-1914

Building Brussels. Brussels city builders and the production of space, 1794-2015

The Urban Socio-professional spaces in a comparative perspective. Bruges and Mechlin, 14th-16th centuries

Gender, migration and distance. Maidservants as agents of change in the democratization of long-distance migration in Antwerp and Brussels, 1850-1900

Domestic energy consumption before and during the early industrial revolution: Belgium and the Netherlands compared (1600-1850)

Past projects

IMMIBEL: Outcast or Embraced? Clusters of Foreign Immigrants in Belgium, c. 1840-1890

Risks and opportunities. Building contractors in Antwerp and Brussels, 1500-1900

Poor migrants or alien labourers? Regulating migrants' access to poor relief in eighteenth century Flanders

Shifting grounds? Nobility, lordship and state formation in the sixteenth-century Low Countries (case studies: Brabant and Flanders)

The transformation of urban political elites: the case of sixteenth-century Ghent

Artists or Beggars? Adaptive Strategies of Itinerant Entertainers in Brabant (1750-1914)

Entrepreneurial strategies of building contractors. The case of Antwerp, 1490-1670

Interdisciplinary Research Programme "Cities and Newcomers: Regulating Neighbourhoods of Arrival in Periods of Urban Transtition, 1880-1914 and 1980-2015."

Access to justice. Urban legal procedures and the usage of the pro bono procedure in civil adjudication in the Low Countries, 16th to 18th century

City and Society in the Low Countries (ca. 1200-ca.1850). The condition urbaine: between resilience and vulnerability

Entrepreneurs, master craftsmen, workers and merchants. Relations of production in the Brussels' building trades, 1685-1789

The gatekeepers of urban justice. The pivotal role of lower legal professionals in dispute settlement in the early modern Low Countries

Between local autonomy and national migration policy: Dealing with ‘foreigners’ in Brussels, 1750-1914

Life Trajectories on the Fringe. ‘Vagrants’ and ‘Beggars’ in the Belgian State Benevolent Colonies (Rijksweldadigheidskolonies) (1870-1930)

Paying for deservingness? Poor relief administration, entitlement and local economies in the Southern Low Countries, 1750-1830

Explaining the great litigation decline. The impact of social-economic change on litigation patterns in early modern Europe. The case of Bruges and the Liberty of Bruges.

Power in the Metropolis. Urban elite formation during the demographic and commercial expansion of Antwerp (c. 1450 - c. 1550)

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DARIAH-VL: Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure