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Léa Leboissetier

@leakleb.bsky.social
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Dr. in modern history @EnsdeLyon / @FWOVlaanderen Junior Postdoc in @UAntwerpen / Mobile labour, itinerant trading & its regulation in 19/20thC Britain. Française à Bxl & Duolingo fanatiek

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Juliette Bour @juliettebour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Aujourd'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.
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ravie 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...
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L'Homme & la Société 2026/1 (n° 224)
Travail illégal, travail informel ?
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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...
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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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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!!
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
catchy subtitle
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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.
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Thanks also to all the friends and family who attended and helped with the organisation of the whole thing, Anh-Dao Bui Tran, Lucille Chambon, Etienne Bard, H.Y KE and of course @dekkermischa.bsky.social 😘
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I have very fond memories of this day, and I would like to seize this opportunity to acknowledge my PhD supervisors Philippe Rygiel and Fabrice Bensimon who showed me unwavering support, as well as Neil Davie, Emma Griffin, Manuela Martini and Anne Winter in the jury for stimulating discussions.
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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.
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Jasper 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
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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...
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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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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Perso, pareil quand j'étais étudiante et j'avoue que je reste un peu dubitative sur le concept de la classe inversée et de la connaissance co-construite (je suis old school i guess) haha
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Association française pour l'histoire des mondes du travail @afhmt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Travailler et vivre sur son lieu de travail Journée des doctorants de l'AFHMT Rdv le 23 mai à @uparisnanterre.bsky.social Bâtiment Weber
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History Today @historytoday.com · 14/05/2025
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
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Building Britain’s Borders
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Mischa Dekker @dekkermischa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
or maybe there's more than 1 pigeon in this murder mystery
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
this is what I call journalism
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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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Academia.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
L’Ecole de science politique de la Sorbonne se déclare en chômage technique !

Face à la situation budgétaire dramatique de nos Universités, qui met en péril nos missions de
service public, nos métiers, et l’avenir de nos étudiants, l’Ecole de science politique de la
Sorbonne se déclare en chômage technique et appelle nos collègues et étudiant-es, de
l’Université de Paris 1 et d’ailleurs, à faire de même.

La situation budgétaire nationale et locale de nos Universités est aujourd’hui catastrophique.
A Paris 1, nos unités de recherche viennent de perdre sur décision rectorale 50% de leurs
budgets de recherche et nos UFR 40% de leurs budgets de fonctionnement, sans qu’aucune
discussion sur le périmètre exact ou les options possibles de ces coupes n’ait pu être menée
dans nos conseils centraux. Ailleurs, du fait de la mise sous tutelle budgétaire de très
nombreuses Universités, ou du fait des avis négatifs de la campagne d’évaluation de l’HCÉRES,
des formations sont contraintes de fermer, et les moyens alloués à la recherche, à
l’enseignement et à gestion administrative de nos formations sont remis en cause.

Nous sommes au bord de la cessation forcée de nos activités. Car ces coupes brutales ne sont
pas des économies ponctuelles, dues à une situation spéciale : elles constituent
l’aboutissement de plus de quinze ans de précarisation des Universités. Elles mettent
aujourd’hui concrètement à l’arrêt nos activités de recherche. Elles obèrent gravement notre
capacité à enseigner et à animer la vie scientifique de nos disciplines, à former et à
professionnaliser nos doctorant-es, à faire rayonner notre université à l’international ; elles
cassent nos infrastructures de recherche et de formation, elles remettent en question nos
enseignements et les conditions d’étude de nos étudiants :
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Jasper 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!
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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.
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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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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Time to repost the best video of the internet
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Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme
YouTube video by Joseph
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Not the most flattering picture, but I now am officially affiliated to QMUL's school of history for a few months!
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Excellent, I was waiting for it to draft an article's intro! I can't wait to read it :)
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Catford library today, I was not prepared for this amount of cat statues per sq. meters
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Back in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, reading working class autobiographies 🤩 welcome respite from the news
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Apparemment E. Macron aime bien voyager dans le temps pour acheter des petits pois aux colporteurs du Lancashire
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UAntwerp 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)
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
💔
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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 🙏🏠
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
truly a gift that keeps on giving
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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.
An interior scene of a busy market, with a large number of wicker baskets in the foreground. Several porters in brown smocks can be seen with baskets on their heads, and the rest of the crowd fills the middle ground. A slanted roof with lights can be seen above, letting strong sunlight illuminate the scene from the upper left.
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✨️naomithinksit✨️ @naomithinksit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys
Egyptian Blue Bes ceramic Statue from the British museum shop, kind of looks like a tiny suspicious bear? He's adorable A middle Egyptian turquoise hippo from the met. He looks despondent and adorable. He has line art of reeds painted on his back and face. A ceramic baby rattle from the met shaped like a pig. However it doesn't look much like a pig, it's giving creature saying ooooooo. It's adorable.Little red earthenware bowl from the met. It has two little humanoid feet on the bottom and looks like he's standing shyly. Adorable.
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
oh cool, yes I'd like to read it! thanks!
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Olalaaaa !!! Enjoy :)
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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)
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Journal 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/...
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Fairy puff! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1912.
Black and white photo of an adorable puffy white kitten standing proudly under a flowing bush like a sassy little fairy creature. One of its eyes appears significantly lighter than the other. This could be weird lighting, heterochromia, an injury or infection, who knows. Very pretty!
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thank you!
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hello! If there's still room I'd love to be in. Thanks!
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
F. Kiesler @ CIVA Brussels providing today's moment of levity
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
dans le premier lien plus haut :)
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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? ✍️👌
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Les deux, un peu dans mon article sur les onion johnnies aussi (ils faisaient en sorte d'apparaître 'authentiques' et de souligner qu'ils venaient de la campagne, en tout cas la presse britannique était très attentive à ça)!!
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Non ça marche, merci! Marrant, je travaille aussi sur l'idée de nostalgie & ruralité dans l'entre-deux-guerres, mais sur totalement un autre sujet :P
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Et dans ton cas? Ca m'intéresse aussi !!
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Its is also quite specific! That's a great find :)
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Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Coucou Manuel! Deux articles publiés ici (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) et ici (brill.com/view/journal...). Ma thèse qui vient tt juste d'être mise en ligne et est accessible si tu as des identifiants d'une univ fr. Si besoin, je peux aussi envoyer des docs par mail :)🥰
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A tool to help the honest poor: itinerant trading in Great Britain through the lens of late-Victorian legislation (1860–1900s)
The last third of the nineteenth century was a turning point in terms of legislation surrounding itinerant trading in Britain. Liberal governments sought to adapt to what they perceived as the decl...
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