Rombert Stapel

Maandag… 🙂

Dit jaar zijn we 90 geworden! Op 4 oktober openen we de deuren voor iedereen die het IISG (beter) wil leren kennen. Voor zowel kinderen als volwassenen is er van alles te doen.

Lees meer over de open dag op onze site: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/op...

A paragraph from the new T&C from Linkedin: 'Generative AI Model Training: We are now including these regions in the locations where we use and share member data and content to train generative AI models that create content. Starting on November 3, 2025, we’ll start to use some data from members in these regions to train these content-generating AI models that enhance your experience and better connect our members to opportunities. Our GenAI features can help hirers find and reach you more easily, and assist members in creating content such as profile updates, messages, and posts. This may include data like details from your profile, and public content you post on LinkedIn; it does not include your private messages.'

I've never really used LinkedIn, as it was always a very privacy-averse place, but they'll now also be hoovering up your personal data to train GenAI models (as per their new T&Cs). The fact that this is opt-out rather than opt-in speaks volumes.

Beatrice de Graaf: Antifa-besluit Tweede Kamer is ‘een knuppel om tegenstanders monddood te maken’ ‘Een schok’, zo omschrijft historicus Beatrice de Graaf het besluit van de Tweede Kamer om de Antifa-beweging als terroristische organisatie aan te merken.

'Een schok', zo omschrijft terrorisme-expert @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social het besluit van de Tweede Kamer om Antifa als terroristische organisatie aan te merken. 'Het is een knuppel om tegenstanders monddood te maken.' www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order: A History of the Crusades in the Holy Land, Prussia and Livonia (Edition and Translation) The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (‘Croniken van der Duytscher Oirden’) is a late-fifteenth-century Middle Dutch text that strongly influenced early modern historiography in north-eastern Eu...

As of today available in paperback 🎉🎉: our edition and translation of the Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order with @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Printed version is highly recommended as it offers edition and translation on facing pages, which was not feasible in the ebook.

first page of the article

So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
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🗣 Werk, waark of wirk?
Het Meertens Instituut zoekt een Historisch Taalkundige (24-30,4 uur) voor onderzoek naar Nederlandse taalverandering met digitale corpora en computationele methodes.

Solliciteer nu! 🔗 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

#vacature #taalkunde

Geld verdienen met je scriptie over een historisch onderwerp? Dat kan! De winnaar van de Volkskrant-IISG scriptieprijs krijgt 1500 euro én een interview in de Volkskrant.

🗓️ De deadline voor het inleveren van de scripties is 19 september.

Meer info: iisg.amsterdam/nl/Scriptiep...

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Heard at (very interesting session at) #IMC2025: “Flanders as an overlooked territory in historiography”. Funny to hear from a late medieval perspective 😉

Do you know Periodo? perio.do/en/

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network.

The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models.

👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order: A History of the Crusades in the Holy Land, Prussia and Livonia (Edition and Translation) The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (‘Croniken van der Duytscher Oirden’) is a late-fifteenth-century Middle Dutch text that strongly influenced early modern historiography in north-eastern Eu...

Oh, that’s nice: I see a paperback (much more affordable!) version of our edition and translation of the Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (aka Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik) is now available for preorder with @routledgehistory.bsky.social.
#MedievalSky @saridjo.bsky.social

Map of the Low Countries with the frequency at which localities were included in censuses, from 1350 to 1449.

Map of the Low Countries with the frequency at which localities were included in censuses, from 1450 to 1549.

For @imc-leeds.bsky.social, I created two maps that highlight the explosion of census-taking in the Low Countries before vs. after the mid-15th century. This development follows Burgundian hearth count reforms but is also present in areas outside Burgundian rule. #MedievalSky

Thanks! I’m sure I will

Related publications:
Oostindiër & Stapel 2022. ‘Demographic Shifts and the Politics of Taxation in the Making of Fifteenth-Century Brabant’, library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Stapel & Van Steensel 2025. ‘Lordship in Medieval Holland and Zeeland’, www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Another presentation at the #wehc2025 in Lund (30 July 11:00), delivered w/ @arievansteensel.bsky.social, will focus on the late medieval economic geography of the County of Holland and the impact of feudal lords on this economic landscape, building on our work published earlier this yr #medievalsky

This work is part of my project on the population geography of the Low Countries: '(Re)counting the Uncounted'. At the #wehc2025 in Lund, 31 July 8:30, I will present the project's main focus: the methodology and population estimates.

Conference season is starting: this Monday I'll be presenting at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and at the end of the month at #wehc2025 in Lund. At the IMC I will focus on the relationship between census taking and territorialisation in the late medieval Low Countries. #medievalsky #imc2025

We've done it 🥳

Finally, there's a canonical paper on the #QGIS project, its history, workings, and challenges: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925001138

Thanks to @timlinux and @mbernasocchi for joining me in trying to tell the QGIS story 💚

#OSGeo #GISChat #GIScience

Research Data Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences? We’re transitioning from Brill to @openjournalsnl.bsky.social atm, but should be up and running again soon (researchdatajournal.org).

Hoi! Mijn naam is Timon de Groot, historicus bij het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (@iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social). Deze week beheer ik dit account en deel ik over thema's die me als historicus bezighouden. Voornamelijk over de geschiedenis van werk en energie in de 20e eeuw. 🧵

Uit een post van Andrea Reyes: Een klein boekje over spirituele oefeningen: "Ramillete de diuinas flores escogidas en el delicioso Iardin de la Yglesia para recreo de el cristiano lector" van Bernardo de Sierra

Sietske Fransen kijkt naar vloeistof in een heel dun glazen buisje, door een replica Leeuwenhoekmicroscoop. Ik moet de microscoop heel dicht tegen mijn oog houden om überhaupt iets te kunnen.

Uit een post van Jeanine Dekker: item over Zeeuws Meisje in boek Goed Zeeuws Goed Bont

Uit een post van Mariëlle Hageman: een klein briefje met een versje, gelegen op een blauw omslag van inventarisnummer 9 uit het archief van Jan Boon en de Maatschappij ter Bevordering van Nijverheid. Op het briefje de tekst: Tot welsijn van de burgerij Van dese plaas juijst niet voor mij Maar k heb er ook mijn voordeel van Zoo wens ik dat dees oude man Die nu van daag is heer traktant Nog lange blijve in dit lant En zo de heer een eijnde geeft Dat gij dan in den hemel leeft oud 80 Jaar 12 November 1802 W. Middelveld

Lijkt het je leuk om ook een keer te posten op @historicivertellen.bsky.social? Ik ben op zoek naar mensen die vanaf september een week willen vertellen over hun historisch onderzoek. (1/3)

Repost = ❤️

For the presentation of my colleague Ulbe Bosma's biography of Franz Junghuhn ('Leven op een vulkaan'), I used the @latest.allmaps.org editor to create a georeferenced IIIF version of Junghuhn's famous 1855 map of Java and its volcanoes (79 x 308 cm). Do have a look!

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

Timothy Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. (Google his talks.) He recently left his position at Yale for Toronto for political reasons.

Today he published "State Terror - A brief guide for Americans"

Looks good!

Happy to announce two vacacies at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social for a postdoctoral researcher (3 yrs) and a PhD (4 years) in our ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE, which explores the two global blockades of the First and Second World Wars and their aftermaths. See www.blockades.eu for more info.

Offre d’emploi – Postdoctorat en Histoire, projet : « ‘De main de maître’. Vers une transcription automatique des archives de l’historien Henri Pirenne et leur analyse ‘génétique’ et intellectuelle » Conditions de travail • Bourse de postdoctorat en mobilité internationale (Fellowship de type Post Doc)• Domaine : Histoire (médiévale ou contemporaine)• Durée : 9 mois – octobre 2025 à juin 2026• …

Offre d’emploi – Postdoctorat en Histoire, projet : « ‘De main de maître’. Vers une transcription automatique des archives de l’historien Henri Pirenne et leur analyse ‘génétique’ et intellectuelle »

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Stellenausschreibung an der Forschungsstelle Deutscher Orden | Forschung Deutscher Orden Die Forschungsstelle Deutscher Orden sucht ab sofort Unterstützung im Wissenschaftlichen Dienst:

The Teutonic Order Research Centre at @uni-wuerzburg.de offers a 5-year part-time position (40%) to work, a.o., on its Teutonic Order Portal. A particular area of interest is the medieval and early modern bailiwicks in the west of the HRR (including Utrecht).

Deadline 30 April 2025.

The Military Orders Volume VIII: In a Wider World The genesis of this volume lies in the online conference held by Nottingham Trent University in 2022. This was the eighth in the series of military orders conferences organised since 1992. The confere...

The proceedings of the 8th 'Military Orders' conference are out -- originally organised by @nicmorton.bsky.social , edited by @emanuelbuttigieg.bsky.social and Clara Almagro Vidal. Details here: www.routledge.com/The-Military...