A summary of my PhD, which was shortlisted for the Luzzatto prize of the European Historical Economics Society, has been published in the European Review of Economic History! Many thanks to the @theehes.bsky.social for this opportunity to share my research! academic.oup.com/ereh/article...

Léa Leboissetier, “The Peddler, The Reformer and The Police. The Evolution and Regulation of Itinerant Trading in Britain (1860s–1940s)” PhD, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2024)

The second half of the nineteenth century is often associated with the disappearance of peddling in Europe, as a result of urbanization and the proliferati

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💃Another panel you might consider sending an abstract for in the EAUH2026; about the spatializing of popular music, organised by my colleague Ilja van Damme, Simon Gunn and Stijn Oosterlynck @stijnoosterlynck.bsky.social. Deadline 22/10!!

Only one week left to submit a paper to the EAUH2026! If you want to discuss retailing and emotions in urban spaces, please consider sending us an abstract!

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🔴 CFP! AnneleenArnout and I are organising a session on emotions and urban retailing at the EAUH 2026! We invite contributions discussing Europe between 1850 and 1950. Send us a proposal before 22/10 on eauh2026.confnow.eu if that interests you, or feel free to DM us.

🔴 CFP! AnneleenArnout and I are organising a session on emotions and urban retailing at the EAUH 2026! We invite contributions discussing Europe between 1850 and 1950. Send us a proposal before 22/10 on eauh2026.confnow.eu if that interests you, or feel free to DM us.

It's been exactly a year since I defended my PhD at the @ensdelyon.bsky.social ! As anything French, it can be divided in three points: 1) trying keep the stress at bay by spending time in nature in Parc de la tête d'or, 2) D-DAY! and 3) well-earned unhealthy reward the day after.

Happy and honoured to attend the European Historical Economics Society conference at the Uni of Hohenheim as a finalist for the Gino Luzzatto PhD prize! I will talk about how studying pedlars can better our understanding of commercial change & the State's economic behaviour towards the poor.

📢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

📝Delighted to contribute to the blog of the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution of ‪@wlvuni.bsky.social‬ again. I explain why the demand for peddled goods endured in 20thC Britain using working-class autobiographies. You can read it here: retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/p...

CHORD blog – ‘The enduring demand for peddled goods: evidence from ego-documents’

Léa Leboissetier, Antwerp University, Belgium, ‘The enduring demand for peddled goods: evidence from ego-documents’[1] In 1936, the Secretary of the Metropolitan Police sent a letter to the Home Of…

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Travailler et vivre sur son lieu de travail Journée des doctorants de l'AFHMT Rdv le 23 mai à @uparisnanterre.bsky.social Bâtiment Weber

The Aliens Act of 1905 created a new type of immigrant to the UK and a new means of controlling them. 🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days buff.ly/scsyrT1

Building Britain’s Borders

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Heel blij en vereerd om als mede-aanvrager van het T@CKLE consortium te gaan werken aan dit project! 🎉 Vanuit de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda (NWA) ontvangt T@CKLE €2.858.000 NWO-financiering voor een integrale aanpak van seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag en seksueel geweld (SGOG) (1)

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Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat? – in pictures

Gulls are known for being ravenous – check out a selection of things they like

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#AcademiaEnGreve 🚧 14 mars 2025 #VeilleESR Face à la situation budgétaire dramatique de nos Universités, qui met en péril nos missions de #servicepublic, nos métiers, et l’avenir de nos étudiants, l’Ecole de science politique de la Sorbonne se déclare en chômage technique

📢Publication horn: happy to see my new article '"The police in every hotel"? Hospitality governance in Antwerp during the long nineteenth century', is now published online in @imm-min-journal.bsky.social. 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0261... A short🧵 on its findings (1/5) Thoughts welcome!

In de weekendbijlage van @gazetvanantwerpen.bsky.social verscheen een stuk over mijn doctoraatsonderzoek. De stad is vandaag enkel wat ze is omdat zoveel Antwerpenaren in de 19de eeuw hun deur openstelden voor arbeidsmigranten. Met drie in één bed, of met 10 op één kamer, was geen uitzondering.

Met drie in één bed, met tien op één kamer: hoe reizigers en arbeidsmigranten logeerden in het 19de-eeuwse Antwerpen

Ruim twee jaar nadat cast en crew van de misdaadserie ‘Juliet’ aan onze Belgische kust filmden, zijn de opnames van nieuwe afleveringen aangevat in De Haan.

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Time to repost the best video of the internet

Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme

YouTube video by Joseph

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Not the most flattering picture, but I now am officially affiliated to QMUL's school of history for a few months!

Catford library today, I was not prepared for this amount of cat statues per sq. meters

Back in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, reading working class autobiographies 🤩 welcome respite from the news

Apparemment E. Macron aime bien voyager dans le temps pour acheter des petits pois aux colporteurs du Lancashire

📢CSG member @jsegerink.bsky.social gladly invites you to the public defence of his doctoral dissertation, "The Lodging House and the City. Accommodating Migrants in Urban Space, Antwerp, 1850-1914." 🗓️ 14/02, 15:00 📍 Auditorium FelixArchief (Oude Leeuwenrui 29)

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🚨British academics of Bluesky: I will visit Queen Mary University of London between the end of February and June. I know how hard flat hunting can be in London: any tips for accommodation? Know anyone who would be willing to let/sublet a room/flat during this time period? Thanks 🙏🏠

Just becauase I like it, and because even the new Billingsgate (the only one I know) is about to go. Billingsgate in 1850, by John Wikeman Archer. Part of the British Museum collection.

Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys

going to great lengths to beat the winter gloom while teleworking in Bxl (yes, that's a elephant seal plushie) (yes, that's a black lodge mousepad)

“Come on, gang, we’ve got a mystery to solve!🐕🔍” Bensimon searches for clues to answer unsolved mysteries regarding the daguerreotypes of the April 1848 Chartist meeting, revealing insights into the working-class struggle and Victorian labor #19thcentury academic.oup.com/jvc/article/...

Fairy puff! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1912.

F. Kiesler @ CIVA Brussels providing today's moment of levity