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Wout Saelens (°1993) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has a broad interest in the urban history of social inequality, material culture and ecological development from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.

Bruno Blondé (°1964) is a full professor of the history department at the University of Antwerp. His major research interest include the history of economic growth and social inequality, urbanisation, and material culture and consumption in the early modern Low Countries.

Wouter Ryckbosch (°1984) is associate professor in urban history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he is also the director of the research group HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes). His primary research interests are the history of inequality and social relations, and the application of techniques from digital humanities to history.