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Wout Saelens is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp and the HOST research group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He studied medieval history at the University of Ghent (2015) and obtained in 2021 his PhD at the University of Antwerp and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with a dissertation on domestic energy consumption and material culture in early modern Ghent and Leiden. He is currently working on the social and political conflicts behind the transition to coal and the problems of smoke pollution in the industrial city of the nineteenth century.
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SRP27: SRP (Groeiers): The cradle of modernity? Social dynamics in the cities of Brabant and Flanders in a comparative and long-term perspective, 1350-1914
Winter, A., Buylaert, F., Baguet, J., De Koster, M., Ryckbosch, W., Van den Broeck, N., Verbeke, A., Feys, T., Deneweth, H., Horemans, B., Plettinck, G., Adriaens, M., Wauters, R., Vermeesch, G., Vanruysseveldt, V., Vervaeke, A. A., Everaert, J., Erkul, A., Volkov, V., Coppens, A., Debackere, E., Verbruggen, T., Loockx, K., Beeckaert, E., Saelens, W., Leloup, W., Degraeve, M. & Schepers, M.
1/03/14 → 28/02/19
Project: Fundamental
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Energy in the Early Modern Home: Material Cultures of Domestic Energy Consumption in Europe, 1450–1850
Ryckbosch, W. (ed.), Blondé, B. (ed.) & Saelens, W. (ed.), 2023, Routledge. 260 p. (Themes in Environmental History)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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Fuelling the urban economy: a comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600-1850
Ryckbosch, W. & Saelens, W., Feb 2023, In: Economic History Review. 76, 1, p. 221-256 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Het comfort van energie? Consumptiecultuur en energietransitie in achttiende-eeuws Gent en Leiden (1650-1850)
Saelens, W., 2021Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis
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Comforts of difference : social inequality and the material culture of energy in eighteenth-century Ghent
Saelens, W., 2020, Inequality and the city in the Low Countries (1200-2020) / Blondé, B. [edit.]; et al.. Brepols Publishers, p. 309-327 19 p. (Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) ; 50).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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De materiële cultuur van de nacht: huishoudelijke verlichting in de achttiende eeuw
Saelens, W., 2020, In: Tijd-Schrift. Heemkunde en lokaal-erfgoedpraktijk in Vlaanderen. 10, 1, p. 21-35 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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Prijs van het Gentse Historische Onderzoek
Saelens, Wout (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)