When your working days were over: Louvain 1796What did the elderly do before the birth of the welfare state? Did they spend their remaining years living in poverty? Could they rely on...
For those looking to save...‘For those looking to save: you are ridiculous! The moneybox should be squandered during festivities’. Thus the chorus of a song by the...
When did they stop working? Gold- and silversmiths in early-modern FrisiaAn earlier contribution to this blog dealt with the retirement of surgeons in eighteenth-century Amsterdam: on average they stopped...
Stature in revolutionary-era Bois-le-DucToday, Dutch men are the tallest in the World at an average height of 1,83m, and women are ranked second at 1,69m (after the Latvian...