About the Journal

Focus and Scope

TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History is the Dutch-Flemish journal of social and economic history. It is an open access, peer-reviewed, scientific  journal which was granted A status/ INT 1 by the European Science Foundation.

The journal publishes articles and reviews in the fields of social and economic history in the broad sense, with a particular but not exclusive interest in the low countries. The journal has a strong interest in the manner in which people in the past have interacted with each other and given shape to social, economic, cultural and political patterns. Key notions here are economic growth, power and (in)equality, group cultures, networks, identity, gender, ethnicity, ecology, trade and technique, entrepreneurship, labour and social movements. The journal issues three numbers a year.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability. TSEG is indexed by the following services:

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Google Scholar
• Historical abstracts
• Erih Plus

All TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History content is indexed with CrossRef and assigned a Digital Object identifier (DOI). In addition, all journals are available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.

If the journal is not indexed by your preferred service, please let us know by emailing info@tseg.nl or alternatively by making an indexing request directly with the service.

Publisher and Sponsors

The journal is published by The International Institute of Social History and Stichting Het Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief . It is hosted online at Openjournals.nl and KNAW Humanities Cluster. The printed version is provided by Leuven University Press. The Posthumus Institute provides their PhD students with a free subscription.

Journal History

TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History was founded in 2004 as a merger and continuation of three Dutch journals of economic and social history: NEHA-Jaarboek voor economische, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis (1914-2004), the Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis (1975-2004) and the NEHA-Bulletin (1986-2004).