Reposted by Léa LeboissetierJuliette Bour @juliettebour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Aujourd'hui paraît aux CNRS EDITIONS mon premier livre Comme des hommes ? Femmes politiques génocidaires au Rwanda, issu de ma thèse. Très heureuse de vous partager le fruit de cette recherche. 13219
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Ravie d’annoncer la publication du numéro de L’Homme et la Société consacré au travail illégal/informel, que j’ai eu la chance de co‑éditer. Merci aux auteur·rice·s, à l’AFHMT, à C. Maitte et à l’équipe éditoriale pour avoir permis à ce beau projet de voir le jour ! shs.cairn.info/revue-l-homm...shs.cairn.infoL'Homme & la Société 2026/1 (n° 224)Travail illégal, travail informel ? 020
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026A 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...academic.oup.comLéa 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 062
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025💃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!! 030
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Only 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! 030
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025🔴 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. 030
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025It'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. 1100
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Happy 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. 050
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierJasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/08/2025📢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 014
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025📝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...retailhistory.wordpress.comCHORD 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… 040
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierAssociation française pour l'histoire des mondes du travail @afhmt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Travailler et vivre sur son lieu de travail Journée des doctorants de l'AFHMT Rdv le 23 mai à @uparisnanterre.bsky.social Bâtiment Weber 077
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierHistory Today @historytoday.com · 14/05/2025The 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/scsyrT1buff.lyBuilding Britain’s Borders 055
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierMischa Dekker @dekkermischa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Heel 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) 152
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 15/03/2025this is what I call journalismtheguardian.comOctopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat? – in picturesGulls are known for being ravenous – check out a selection of things they like 030
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierAcademia.hypotheses.org @academiacarnet.cpesr.fr · 14/03/2025#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 12727
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierJasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 12/03/2025📢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! 1111
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierJasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 10/03/2025In 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.gva.beMet drie in één bed, met tien op één kamer: hoe reizigers en arbeidsmigranten logeerden in het 19de-eeuwse AntwerpenRuim 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. 084
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Time to repost the best video of the internetyoutube.comAngelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's ThemeYouTube video by Joseph 030
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Not the most flattering picture, but I now am officially affiliated to QMUL's school of history for a few months! 030
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Catford library today, I was not prepared for this amount of cat statues per sq. meters 050
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Back in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, reading working class autobiographies 🤩 welcome respite from the news 030
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Apparemment E. Macron aime bien voyager dans le temps pour acheter des petits pois aux colporteurs du Lancashire 060
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierUAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 28/01/2025📢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) 094
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 12/01/2025🚨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 🙏🏠 012
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierTim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Just 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. 1241
Reposted by Léa Leboissetier✨️naomithinksit✨️ @naomithinksit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys 21061071758
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024going 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) 050
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierJournal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social · 04/12/2024“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/... 1147
Reposted by Léa LeboissetierCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Fairy puff! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1912. 243441336
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024F. Kiesler @ CIVA Brussels providing today's moment of levity 031
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024👩🏫 Fellow historians & aspiring first-time authors, any tip to share about drafting your first book proposal for a U.K. university press? ✍️👌 444
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Ma thèse "Le colporteur, le réformateur et la police. Les évolutions et la régulation du commerce ambulant en Grande-Bretagne (années 1860–années 1940)" est en ligne ! + Accessible aux membres d'une université française @ theses.fr/2024ENSL0046 :D (attention la thèse is in english) 13414
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Thoughtful Lucius' motto is literally "where we are, death is not" and his first solo act of bravery is killing a giant cgi feral baboon lmao 000
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024#HelloESR Je suis historienne de la GB des 19e et 20e siècles. Je m'intéresse aux marchands ambulants (colporteurs, vendeurs de rue, etc), à leur encadrement policier et législatif. Je commence un postdoc à l'Univ. d'Anvers sur le colportage au travers des autobiographies ouvrières britanniques. 4536