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Very excited to announce our conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond"! Thu Nov 14 and Fri Nov 15 in Antwerp and online. Program in image. Registration is required and can be done here: forms.office.com/e/zguvACCqSn

@MartenvdMeulen Ik meen me te herinneren dat de Franse naam voor de letter "W" standaard "double vé" is. In dat geval spreken ze het gewoon uit als een Frans acroniem, toch? Dan moet je al gaan kijken naar hoe ze de "B" uitspreken (/be:/ of /bi:/) om te achterhalen of het Frans of Engels is.

Sinds we aan eind v 18e eeuw massaal voor #steenkool kozen, raakten we nooit meer van fossiele #energie af. Waarom hebben we die stap ooit gezet? #Historicus Wout Saelens @UAntwerpen @VUB zoekt het uit door in -de inboedels van- het #verleden te duiken 🎥wetenschapuitgedokterd.be/lessen-uit-ons…

New publication! This week our State of the Field: Histories of the Futures was published online in @HisJournalHA in open access for everyone to read doi.org/10.1111/1468-2… ! In this paper we explore the growing historiography on past futures 1/

Publication day of @SanneHermans4 article!!! open access!!! @UrbanhistoryUA

@MartenvdMeulen "aan de haven", "aan de kassa," "aan de receptie/het onthaal/de balie" kunnen voor mij ook, maar geen idee waarom. Het zijn wel allemaal fysieke werkplekken (die dus ook locaties zijn), misschien heeft dat er iets mee te maken?

Dear friends, I could use your help! I'm looking for data on lodging houses in cities during the 19th C. This data is difficult to track, and mostly hides in niche local histories. If you have/know any, feel free to DM/mail me, I will be eternally grateful! 🙏 #twitterstorians

We’re thrilled to announce that our next seminar will be by Sara Budts @srbdts (@UrbanhistoryUA, University of Antwerp) on “Modelling the past: the use of digital text analysis techniques for historical research”, 17/11/2023 at 11am CET. Details here: almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en.ht…

On this extraordinarily warm September day, do you want to know if natural disasters of the past tell us something about our future? Check out our new blogpost, by @eheijmans89 :   uantwerpen.be/en/projects/ba… @UrbanhistoryUA @UAntwerpenFLW

@brfootball All the African teams are playing their colonisers! How interesting!!!

@_shengche Same here. Bought a skateboard when I turned 27. Broke my hand on the third ride and never tried again. Still want to be a skateboarder though. I think it's the swag. I want the swag even though I know damn well I lack the balance.

@macgintysgoat @AdamCSharp Ah, this one is used in Dutch (or at least some Flemish dialects) too! "Steekt zijn verstand in een vogeltje en hij vliegt achteruit."

@AdamCSharp ' if you put his brain in a bird , it would fly backwards' . Irish saying , afaik.

This is a thread of phrases similar to “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” from around the world, starting with this one… There’s a colourful old Swedish idiom that goes hjulet snurrar men hamstern är död. It means “the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead”

Call for papers: Workshop “Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture” 23-24 November 2023, Antwerp. join us and feel free to spread the word! @UrbanhistoryUA @UAntwerpenFLW #twitterstorians

@MartenvdMeulen Volgens de OED komt de Engelse variant al sinds het eind van de 16e eeuw voor, maar het WNT zegt er niks over. Misschien omdat het recent pas overgesprongen is? Er is ook wikipedia (nl.wikisage.org/wiki/Munten_(t…) en mijn eigen intuïtie, in die volgorde van betrouwbaarheid.

@MartenvdMeulen Is "munten" hier ook geen leenvertaling van "to coin"?

Live footage of someone discovering that old stuff is really, really, really cool and that you're actually allowed to hold it in your bare hands 🤯

Today is #internationalarchivesday Stating the obvious but @Back2FutureERC is impossible without archives. We cannot do without the preserved sources, digital scans, the inventories archivists have made, the infrastructure they provide and their kind and generous guidance. Thanx!

It’s Sinksenfoor time in Antwerp! Wanna learn more about its history from @srbdts ? Check out the link here (text in Dutch) @UrbanhistoryUA uantwerpen.be/en/projects/ba…

@teatrodiravol2 @wthisteya Same in Belgium (You're doing better than Sweden!)

@wthisteya YOU GUYS ARE SECOND IN THE VIRAL 50 IN THE NETHERLANDS