Biography
Jelle van Lottum (1976) did his undergraduate degree in Social and Economic History in Amsterdam, at the VU University. In 2007 he defended his PhD (Utrecht University) on the economic causes and effects of the labour migration in the North Sea region, a project that ran at the International Institute of Social History. From 2007 to 2011 he worked at the University of Cambridge. first as an ESRC-Postdoctoral Fellow, then as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (attached to the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and St John’s College). From 2011 and 2016 he worked at the Universities of Oxford (2011) and Birmingham 2011-2016) where he led a large ESRC Research Project. At Birmingham, he was also a senior lecturer. At Huygens ING, where he moved to in 2016, he was first a senior researcher, and in 2020 he became head of the History Department. From 2020 onwards, he is professor of the History of Labour Migration in Comparative Perspective at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. His inaugural address can be read here. He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied History, a journal which he founded with Harm Kaal (Radboud University) in 2018, and chairs the Maritiem Portal.
His research focuses on the history of labour migration in Europe from 1600 to the present. In his most recent research, he investigates the chances of labour migrants in the Dutch economy, with a special focus on the maritime sector. What were the chances for social mobility for labour migrants in this sector and how does this compare to their Dutch peers?
Research projects
Publications
- contribution to journal (article)
- contribution to journal (review)
- contribution to edited volume
- contribution to conference
- working paper
- book (author)
- book (editor)
- conference participation
- public engagement
- non textual
- other contribution
2024
Petram, L. Koolen, M. Wevers, M. & van Lottum, J. (2024). Charting Lives and Careers: Enriched Data About the Dutch East India Company’s Eighteenth-Century European Workforce. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10, 1-17. Article 44. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.210
2021
van Lottum, J. (2021). Applied History: Past, Present, and Future. Journal of Applied History, 3(1-2), 135. https://doi.org/10.1163/25895893-bja10018
Petram, L. & van Lottum, J. (2021). Levens en loopbanen van zeevarenden op de Nederlandse koopvaardij, 1700–2000. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 40(1), 95-99.
2020
Kaal, H. & van Lottum, J. (2020). Editorial. Journal of Applied History, 1(1-2), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1163/25895893-bja10005
Klein, A. & Van Lottum, J. (2020). The Determinants of International Migration in Early Modern Europe: Evidence from the Maritime Sector, c. 1700–1800. Social Science History, 44(1), 143-167. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2019.43
2019
Brock, A. L. & van Lottum, J. (2019). Rural maritime labour migration to Copenhagen and Stockholm (1700-1800). Continuity and Change, 34(2), 231-252. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416019000146
2018
Leunig, T. van Lottum, J. & Poulsen, B. (2018). Surprisingly gentle confinement: British treatment of Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war during the napoleonic wars. Scandinavian Economic History Review, 66(3), 282-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2018.1516235
Kraak, M. J. Weber, A. van Lottum, J. & Engelhardt, Y. (2018). Toward VR eventscapes for spatio-temporal access to digital maritime heritage. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on eScience, 413-414. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2018.00129
Wevers, M. van Lottum, J. & van Erp, M. (2018). Van kranten tot scheepspapieren en processtukken: Rijkdom en verrijking van digitale bronnen voor onderzoek. Archievenblad, 122(3), 10-14.
2015
Lottum, van, J. (2015). Some thoughts about migration of maritime workers in the eighteenth-century North Sea Region. International journal of maritime history, 27, 647. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871415610500
2014
Lottum, van, J. & van Zanden, J. L. (2014). Labour productivity and human capital in the European maritime sector of the eighteenth century. Explorations in Economic History, 83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2014.04.001
2012
Lottum, van, J. & Marks, D. (2012). The determinants of internal migration in a developing country: quantitative evidence for Indonesia, 1930-2000. Applied Economics, 44(34), 4485. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.591735
2011
Lottum, van, J. & Poulsen, B. (2011). Estimating numeracy and literacy levels in the maritime labour market of the North Atlantic of the late eighteenth century. Scandinavian Economic History Review, 65-80.
Lottum, van, J. (2011). Labour migration and economic performance: London and the Randstad, c. 1600-1800. The Economic history review, 531.
Lottum, van, J. (2011). Some considerations about the link between economic development and migration. Journal of Global History, 6(2011), 339. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022811000313
2010
Lucassen, J. M. W. G. van Rossum, M. Heerma van Voss, L. & van Lottum, J. (2010). Sailors in European, Atlantic and Asiatic Waters: National and International Labour Markets, 1600-1850. Research in Maritime History, 43, 1-26.
2009
Lottum, van, J. & Kaal, H. (2009). Immigrants in the polder. Rural-rural long distance migration in North-western Europe: the case of Watergraafsmeer. Rural History, 20, 99-117.
Lottum, van, J. (2009). Migration to the Netherlands in the first half of the 19th century: an assessment. Annales de Démographie Historique, 118, 193-208.
2007
Lottum, van, J. & Sogner, S. (2007). An immigrant community? Norwegian Sailor Families in Amsterdam in the 17th Century. The History of the Family, 153-168.
Lottum, van, J. & Sogner, S. (2007). Het verhaal van Magnus en Barbara. Migratiegeschiedenis in het klein. Holland: historisch tijdschrift, 39, 65-79.
Lottum, van, J. (2007). Spatial concentrations and communities of immigrants: the Netherlands 1800-1900. Continuity and Change, 22, 215-525.
2006
Lottum, van, J. (2006). Magnus og Barbara. Mikrohistorie I Nordsjøregionen på 1600-tallet. Historisk Tidsskrift, 85, 377-401.
2005
Lottum, van, J. & Kaal, H. (2005). Duitse boeren onder de rook van Amsterdam. Duitse immigranten in de agrarische geschiedenis van de gemeente Watergraafsmeer (1629-1921). Jaarboek van het Genootschap Amstelodamum, 2005, 129-152.
2003
Lottum, van, J. (2003). Duitsers in de polder. Duitse warmoeziers in Watergraafsmeer in de 18de en 19de eeuw: German market gardeners in the parish of Watergraafsmeer in the 18th and 19th century. Holland: historisch tijdschrift, 35, 263-276.
Lottum, van, J. (2003). Nieuwkomers in Nederland in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw' [Newcomers in the Netherlands in the first half of the 19th century. Tijdschrift voor sociale geschiedenis, 29(3), 257-280.
2004
van Lottum, J. (2004). [Review of: Richard Lawton and Robert Lee (2002) Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650-1939]. International Review of Social History, 49, 293-295.
2023
Van Lottum, J. & Petram, L. (2023). In Search of Strayed Englishmen: English Seamen Employed in the Dutch East India Company in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. In S. Levelt, E. van Raamsdonk, & M. D. Rose (Eds.), Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World (pp. 100-111). (Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge). Taylor and Francis Inc..
2019
Lottum, J. V. (2019). Les migrations internationales dans l’Europe du Nord-Ouest. In Les circulations internationales en Europe (pp. 19-35). (Les circulations internationales en Europe). Presses Universitaires de Rennes. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pur.104228
2018
van Lottum, J. (2018). 1658: Onmisbare migranten voor de Gouden Eeuw. In L. Heerma van Voss (Ed.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (pp. 270). Ambo|Anthos.
Lottum, J. V. (2018). The necessity and consequences of internationalisation: maritime work in the Dutch Republic in the 17 th and 18 th centuries. In The Sea in History - The Early Modern World (pp. 839-851). (The Sea in History - The Early Modern World). Boydell and Brewer Limited. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782049098.077
2011
Heerma van Voss, L. Lucassen, J. M. W. G. & van Lottum, J. (2011). Sailors, National and International Labour Markets and National Identity, 1600-1850. In Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850 (pp. 309-351). Brill.
2010
van Rossum, M. van Voss, L. H. van Lottum, J. & Lucassen, J. (2010). National and International Labour Markets for Sailors in European, Atlantic and Asian Waters, 1600-1850. In Maritime History as Global History (pp. 47-72). (Maritime History as Global History). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21pxjhv.7
2007
Lottum, J. V. & Lucassen, J. (2007). Six cross-sections of the Dutch maritime labour market: A preliminary reconstruction and its implications (1610-1850). In Maritime Labour (pp. 13-42). (Maritime Labour). Amsterdam University Press/Uitgeverij Salomé. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048521111-002
van Lottum, J. (2007). The First Waves of Internationalization: A Comparison of Early Modern North Sea and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Labour Migrations. In Maritime Transport and Migration (Maritime Transport and Migration). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780973893434.003.0002
2022
Wevers, M. Karsdorp, F. B. & van Lottum, J. (2022). What Shall We Do With the Unseen Sailor? Estimating the Size of the Dutch East India Company Using an Unseen Species Model. In F. Karsdorp, A. Lassche, & K. Nielbo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022 (Vol. 3290, pp. 189-197). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/short_paper1793.pdf
2020
Nerghes, A. van Lottum, J. Petram, L. van Erp, M. Koolen, M. & Wevers, M. (Accepted/In press). VOCation: Tracing Maritime Careers in the Dutch East India Company c. 1680 – 1800. In European Social Science History Conference 2020 (ESSHC)
2018
Petram, L. van Lottum, J. Koert, van, R. & Derks, S. (2018). Small Lives, Big Meanings. Expanding the Scope of Biographical Data through Entity Linkage and Disambiguation. In Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 (Vol. 2119, pp. 22-26) http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2119/paper4.pdf
2017
Lucassen, L. Mandemakers, K. & Lottum, van, J. (2017). Embodying the state: Dutch career migrants in a wider theoretical and international context (1850-1950); session 'Careers and Migration in Europe and Asia'. Paper presented at 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2009
Heerma van Voss, L. & van Lottum, J. (2009). Labour Relations in the Capitalist Core and its Nearby Periphery, 1500-1800. Paper presented at World Economic History Congress.
Heerma van Voss, L. van Lottum, J. Lucassen, J. M. W. G. & van Rossum, M. (2009). National and International Labour Markets for Sailors in European, Intercontinental and Asian Waters, 1600-1850. Paper presented at World Economic History Conference.
2017
Klein, A. & Lottum, van, J. (2017). The Determinants of International Migration in Early Modern Europe: Evidence from the Maritime Sector, c. 1700–1800. (School of Economics Discussion Papers; No. 1710). University of Kent. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28998.98887
2016
Leunig, T. Lottum, van, J. & Poulsen, B. (2016). How bad were British prison hulks in the Napoleonic wars? Evidence from captured Danish and Norwegian seamen. (pp. 1-34). (Economic History Working Papers; No. 232/2016).
2022
van Lottum, J. (Ed.), Kaal, H. De Graaf, B. (Guest ed.), & Verpoest, L. (2022). Special issue: Weaponizing History in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Journal of Applied History, 4(1-2).
2022
Jelle van Lottum (2022). Structuur en empathie. De geschiedenis van arbeidsmigratie naar Nederland in vergelijkend perspectief. 20-05-2022.
2021
Jelle van Lottum, Lodewijk Petram (2021). VOCation. Migrants, Careers and the Dutch East India Company. 02-07-2021. (Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany)
Jelle van Lottum, Lodewijk Petram, Melvin Wevers, Marijn Koolen (2021). VOCation: modeling maritime careers in the Dutch East India Company in the eighteenth century. 21-06-2021. (Economic history seminar of Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
2020
Jelle van Lottum (2020). Quantitative and qualitative approaches to the Prize Papers archives. 26-11-2020.
2019
Rutger Koert, van, Jirsi Reinders, Karin Hofmeester, Jelle van Lottum, R.G.H. Sluijter, Melvin Wevers, Irene O'Daly (2019). Meeting Image Analysis. 12-11-2019.
Jelle van Lottum (2019). Labour Migration in the North Sea Region in the early modern Period. 23-05-2019. (Trade and social Life in Northern Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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Lodewijk Petram, Jelle van Lottum (2019). Some thoughts on working with historical databases. 28-03-2019. (Risky Business)
2018
Lodewijk Petram, Jelle van Lottum (2018). The added value of digitally connected maritime collections: a linked data demonstration. 23-11-2018. (Zesde Symposium Maritiem Portal en Nieuwe Maritieme Geschiedenis van Nederland)
Lodewijk Petram, Jelle van Lottum (2018). HUMIGEC. Human capital, immigration and the early modern Dutch economy: job mobility of native and immigrant workers in the maritime labour market, c.1700-1800. 19-10-2018. (CLARIAH toogdag)
Jelle van Lottum, Lodewijk Petram (2018). Maritime careers in the Dutch Republic: some preliminary findings. Labour migration, skills and the maritime labor market in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. 01-08-2018. (World Economic History Congress)
Lodewijk Petram, Jelle van Lottum, Rutger Koert, van (2018). Knowledge production through record linkage: reconstructing sailors’ careers for insight into migrants’ opportunities in and contribution to the Dutch economy, c. 1700-1800. 08-06-2018. (DHBenelux Conference 2018)
Jelle van Lottum (2018). Sailors, National and International Labour Markets and National Identity, 1600 - 1850. 14-05-2018.
2017
Lodewijk Petram, Jelle van Lottum (2017). Maritime historical data in the Dutch CLARIAH context. 14-12-2017. (AveTransRisk project workshop on maritime-historical databases)
Lodewijk Petram, Jelle van Lottum (2017). Reconstructing life courses of naval workers for insight into migrants - opportunities in and contribution to the Dutch economy, c.1700-1800. 07-11-2017. (Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017)
2018
Jelle van Lottum (2018). Arbeidsmigratie in het Amsterdam van de Gouden Eeuw. 08-09-2018. (Open Monumentendag Amsterdam)
2024
Petram, L. Koolen, M. Wevers, M. Koert, van, R. & van Lottum, J. (2024). The Dutch East India Company's Eighteenth-Century Workforce: an Enriched Data Collection. Database, Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10599528
2021
Bertels, D. Petram, L. Baehr, K. van Lottum, J. van Rossum, M. Zijlstra, S. Manuhutu, W. Benett, D. Tjepkema, F. & Hamelink, R. (2021). VOC Data Experience. Digital or Visual Products http://vocdataexperience.nl/
2019
Schillings, M. & van Lottum, J. (2019). Dutch Prize Papers (1652-1815) - Virtual Research Environment. Database, Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. https://prizepapers.huygens.knaw.nl/
Petram, L. & van Lottum, J. (2019). Maritime Careers: The Life and Work of European Seafarers, 1600-present. Website https://www.maritimecareers.eu
2018
Petram, L. van Lottum, J. Derks, S. Quist, T. Beek, W. & de Groot, T. (2018). Demo Netwerk Maritieme Bronnen. Website https://stories.datalegend.net/netwerk-maritieme-bronnen/
2016
Van Bochove, C. van Lottum, J. & Mourits, R. (2016). Zeelieden en krediet in de negentiende eeuw.