Rombert Stapel

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...

A simple hack to ChatGPT-proof assignments using Google Drive What if there was a way to maintain the essay in all its three constituent parts – reading, thinking, writing – in the age of ChatGPT? Dave Sayers thinks he has an answer

If you want to prevent use of AI in student assignments, try this method of mine. It works really nicely. In the process, it also gives students transparent tools to prove they did their own work (to me and to future employers).
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/simpl...

New Medieval Books: The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order - Medievalists.net A chronicle written in the second half of the 15th century, which details the history of the Teutonic Knights, a military order that fought in the Near East and Baltic regions. The account came at a…

New Medieval Books: The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order www.medievalists.net/2024/03/new-... #MedievalBooks

Senior Onderzoeker Digital Humanities met coördinerende taken De Stichting Fryske Akademy doet al ruim 85 jaar wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de Friese taal, de meertalige samenleving en de regionale geschiedenis van Fryslân. Met multidisciplinair onderzoek lev...

De @fryskeakademy.bsky.social heeft een vacature voor een Senior Onderzoeker Digital Humanities: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3503...

Zeer aanbevolen!

Coming to Leiden for the @esshc.bsky.social next week? We’re organising an early morning run around the old town on Wednesday. Start at ‘Molen de Valk’ at 06:30, to ensure you’ll be able to be back in time for the first sessions. See also esshc.iisg.amsterdam @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

Coming to Leiden for the @esshc.bsky.social next week? We’re organising an early morning run around the old town on Wednesday. Start at ‘Molen de Valk’ at 06:30, to ensure you’ll be able to be back in time for the first sessions. See also esshc.iisg.amsterdam @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

Want to work for IISH? We have three vacancies available:

💠 Community Manager Colonial Contract Labor
💠 Global Slavery History Fellowships (GSHF)
💠 Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowship

More info: iisg.amsterdam/nl/nieuws

(🖼️: Poster SDAP & NVV (1939) by Jos Rover)

Red sign with white letters: A Strong Future Starts With Strong Education

People standing in a demonstration, seen from behind. A person has a sign that says: Hands Off Humanities

A poster collage in black paper with white letters and cutouts from magazines. The text says Investeer in Onderwijs en Onderzoek. There are euro bills going into polluting factories and fighter plane commanded by Benjamin Netanyahu, these are crossed with red and an arrow indicates the money should go to Education and Research

Today, the Dutch strikes against the ideologically motivated budget cuts from the current government started at Leiden University. #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #DitMoetStoppen #StakingHO @woinactie.bsky.social