BETHUNE Archives - Quetelet Center

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BETHUNE

Date:

August 2019

Category:

Database

New database on textile trade available!

The BETHUNE database was created by Annik Adriaenssens (Ghent University) as part of her doctoral project.

Annik Adriaenssens meticulously collected details of the trade archives of the trading company Bethune & Fils. The database contains data on the company’s accounting as well as the almost complete bilateral correspondence of the company during the growth phase in the Ancien Regime and the crisis years after the French Revolution, in particular the period 1750-1800.

Interested in using this database yourself? Then contact the staff at the Quetelet Center or check out the BETHUNE page.

DETAILS

Used database

BETHUNE

Date:

October 2017

Category:

Scientific publication

SAMPLING SELECTION TECHNIQUE BRINGS ORDER TO THE CHAOS

In the BETHUNE database, you can find the sales invoices of the textile company Bethune & Fils. The database was created as part of the doctorate of Annik Adriaenssens: “Van laken tot linnen. De textielhandel Bethune & Fils. Tweede helft achttiende eeuw. Een analyse op basis van het bedrijfsarchief” (“From cloth to linen. The textile trade of Bethune & Sons. Second half of the eighteenth century. An analysis based on the company archive”). For their research, Coessens and Heirman got to work on the sales invoices created between 1737 and 1799, which were included in the database.

Read the full chapter (in Dutch):

Coessens, Ine, and Wim Heirman, “Statistische steekproefmethodes: Een handleiding tot statistisch verantwoorde selectie”. In Handboek Archiefbeheer in de praktijk (“Statistical sampling methods: A guide to statistically sound selection”. In Handbook for Archive Management in practice). Vol. 102. 2017.