Hanne Østhus
About
I am working as associate professor in early modern history at the Department of Historical and Classical Studies. Currently, I am researching enslavement and relations of work in seventeenth and eighteenth century Denmark-Norway. I teach several courses on BA and MA levels in history, as well as supervise BA and MA thesis in history.
Interests:
- The early modern period
- Work through history
- Global connections
- Enslavement
- Trade and consumption
- Gender
Publications
2021
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2021)
Jonas Lindström (red.): Fantastiska verb. Hur man fångar uppgifter om kön och arbete, Västmanland 1720–1880.
Heimen - Lokal og regional historie.
volum 58 (2).
Book review
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2021)
Stockholms tjenestefolk. Paul Borenberg: Tjänstefolk. Vardagsliv i underordning. Stockholm 1600-1635.
Historisk tidskrift (Sverige).
volum 141 (2).
Book review
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Østhus, Hanne;
Simek, Rudolf;
Toplak, Matthias.
(2021)
Viking-Age Slavery.
Viking-Age Slavery.
Foreword
2020
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2020)
Alessandro Stanziani: Labor on the Fringes of Empire. Voice, Exit and the Law.
Sehepunkte.
volum 20 (11).
Book review
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2020)
Servants in the early-modern Nordic countries.
Worlds of related coercions in work.
Popular scientific article
2018
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2018)
Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet.
Arbeiderhistorie.
volum 22 (1).
Academic article
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2018)
Were all servants women? Reflections on the use of gender in research on domestic service.
Gender, History, Futures, Report from the XI Nordic Women's and Gender History Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 19-21, 2015.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2017
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2017)
Blogg: 100 år siden Danmark solgte De vestindiske øyer.
Historieblogg.no.
Popular scientific article
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2017)
It's the economy, stupid! Undervisningsspill om trelasthandelen.
Historikeren.
Popular scientific article
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2017)
Servants in rural Norway, ca. 1650-1800.
Servants in Rural Europe: 1600-1900.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2017)
Tvunget til tjeneste? Tjenesteplikten i Danmark-Norge på 1700-tallet og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet.
Arbetarhistoria.
volum 163.64 (3-4).
Academic article
2016
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Spring, Ulrike;
Østhus, Hanne.
(2016)
Blogg: Vestlandsk identitet – hva er det?.
Krohnargument.no.
Popular scientific article
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Østhus, Hanne;
Spring, Ulrike.
(2016)
Digging into Downstairs: Exhibiting Domestic Service.
Museum & Society.
volum 14 (3).
Academic article
2015
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2015)
Blogg: Grådige tjenere, eller mat&moral.
Krohnargument.no.
Popular scientific article
2014
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2014)
Blogg: To tjenere, et overfall og en svensk-norsk konflikt i Christiania i 1815.
www.historieblogg.no.
Popular scientific article
2013
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2013)
Contested authority. Master and servant in Copenhagen and Christiania, 1750-1850.
2013.
Doctoral dissertation
2011
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2011)
“Maria Ågren: Domestic Secrets. Women & Property in Sweden, 1600-1857”.
European Review of History.
volum 18 (5-6).
Book review
2008
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2008)
“Arbeid, underordning og selvstendighet. Livet som tjener i 1700-tallets Christiania”.
Byminner.
Popular scientific article
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2008)
“‘Hun formente sig lige goed, med dem hun tiente.’ Arbeidsrettssaker på 1700-tallet”.
Fortid.
Popular scientific article
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2008)
“Konflikt i husholdet. Arbeidsrettssaker på 1700-tallet”.
Arkivmagasinet.
Popular scientific article
2006
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2006)
”Lov og urett i de tusen hjem”.
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
Feature article
Journal publications
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2021)
Jonas Lindström (red.): Fantastiska verb. Hur man fångar uppgifter om kön och arbete, Västmanland 1720–1880.
Heimen - Lokal og regional historie.
volum 58 (2).
Book review
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2021)
Stockholms tjenestefolk. Paul Borenberg: Tjänstefolk. Vardagsliv i underordning. Stockholm 1600-1635.
Historisk tidskrift (Sverige).
volum 141 (2).
Book review
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2020)
Alessandro Stanziani: Labor on the Fringes of Empire. Voice, Exit and the Law.
Sehepunkte.
volum 20 (11).
Book review
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2020)
Servants in the early-modern Nordic countries.
Worlds of related coercions in work.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2018)
Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet.
Arbeiderhistorie.
volum 22 (1).
Academic article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2017)
Blogg: 100 år siden Danmark solgte De vestindiske øyer.
Historieblogg.no.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2017)
It's the economy, stupid! Undervisningsspill om trelasthandelen.
Historikeren.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2017)
Tvunget til tjeneste? Tjenesteplikten i Danmark-Norge på 1700-tallet og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet.
Arbetarhistoria.
volum 163.64 (3-4).
Academic article
-
Spring, Ulrike;
Østhus, Hanne.
(2016)
Blogg: Vestlandsk identitet – hva er det?.
Krohnargument.no.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne;
Spring, Ulrike.
(2016)
Digging into Downstairs: Exhibiting Domestic Service.
Museum & Society.
volum 14 (3).
Academic article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2015)
Blogg: Grådige tjenere, eller mat&moral.
Krohnargument.no.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2014)
Blogg: To tjenere, et overfall og en svensk-norsk konflikt i Christiania i 1815.
www.historieblogg.no.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2011)
“Maria Ågren: Domestic Secrets. Women & Property in Sweden, 1600-1857”.
European Review of History.
volum 18 (5-6).
Book review
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2008)
“Arbeid, underordning og selvstendighet. Livet som tjener i 1700-tallets Christiania”.
Byminner.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2008)
“‘Hun formente sig lige goed, med dem hun tiente.’ Arbeidsrettssaker på 1700-tallet”.
Fortid.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2008)
“Konflikt i husholdet. Arbeidsrettssaker på 1700-tallet”.
Arkivmagasinet.
Popular scientific article
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2006)
”Lov og urett i de tusen hjem”.
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
Feature article
Part of book/report
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Østhus, Hanne;
Simek, Rudolf;
Toplak, Matthias.
(2021)
Viking-Age Slavery.
Viking-Age Slavery.
Foreword
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2018)
Were all servants women? Reflections on the use of gender in research on domestic service.
Gender, History, Futures, Report from the XI Nordic Women's and Gender History Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 19-21, 2015.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Østhus, Hanne.
(2017)
Servants in rural Norway, ca. 1650-1800.
Servants in Rural Europe: 1600-1900.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
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Østhus, Hanne.
(2013)
Contested authority. Master and servant in Copenhagen and Christiania, 1750-1850.
2013.
Doctoral dissertation
Teaching
Courses
Media
2022
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2022) Men at work! Male servants in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. Nordisk Historikermøte ; Göteborg. 2022-08-08 - 2022-08-10.
2021
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2021) Hesitant household members? Servants in early modern Denmark-Norway. Nordic Variations of Protestant Governance . Århus universitet; Århus. 2021-12-02 - 2021-12-02.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2021) Slaves and servants in Eighteenth-Century Denmark-Norway. Trafficked people in European households. European Congress of World and Global History . ENIUGH; Turku. 2021-06-16 - 2021-06-16.
2020
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2020) Free or slave in Europe? Denmark-Norway in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Life after Slavery: Setting the Research Agenda of Slave Histories in the Global Era, 1750-1900 . Radboud University Nijmegen; Nijmegen. 2020-12-07 - 2020-12-08.
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InterviewØsthus, Hanne. (2020) Intervjuet i Studio 2, P2. NRK [Radio]. 2020-08-27.
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InterviewØsthus, Hanne. (2020) Intervjuet på NRK P1+ “Holm”. NRK [Radio]. 2020-12-15.
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Popular scientific lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2020) Tjenestefolk og tyveri på 1700-tallet. Rettsssaker i Rådhusgata 7. Offentlig foredrag . Tidvis; Rådhusgata 7. 2020-08-27 - 2020-08-27.
2019
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2019) Servant law and its use in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. EURHO Rural History 2019 . EURHO; Paris. 2019-09-11 - 2019-09-11.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2019) Servant or Slave? Black Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Denmark-Norway. 3nd European Labour History Network Conference . ELHN; Amsterdam. 2019-09-19 - 2019-09-19.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2019) Slavery and service in the household. The example of non-European servants and slaves in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. What is Global about Global Enslavement? . University of Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv. 2019-12-29 - 2019-12-30.
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Popular scientific lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2019) Tjenestefolk og arbeidsrettssaker på 1700- og 1800-tallet. Offentlig foredrag . Deutsch-Norwegische Gemeinschaft; Bonn. 2019-12-03 - 2019-12-03.
2018
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2018) Forced into farm service? Compulsory service in Norway in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. European Social Science History Conference . ESSHC og University of Belfast; Belfast. 2018-04-05 - 2018-04-05.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2018) Perspectives from free/unfree labour and gender history. The example of service and slavery in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. Nordic Women's and Gender History Conference - Kvinnhist 2018 . Nordic Women's and Gender History Conference; Oulo. 2018-06-08 - 2018-06-08.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2018) Servant law in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. Service and Labour Legislation in Europe, 13th to 19th Centuries . University of Ghent og Comparative Rural History Network; Ghent. 2018-06-19 - 2018-06-19.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2018) Uses of the Past: How Terms and Notions from the Middle Ages Were Used in Eighteenth Century Debates on Freedom. Slaves, Serfs and Free Labor in Medieval Northern Europe . Universität Bonn; Bonn. 2018-10-25 - 2018-10-26.
2017
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2017) Living with your employer. Domestic service and coercion in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. 2nd European Labour History Network Conference . ELHN; Paris. 2017-11-02 - 2017-11-04.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2017) Masters and servants in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. 29th Congress of Nordic historians . Nordisk historikerkongress og Aalborg Universitet; Aalborg. 2017-08-16 - 2017-08-16.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2017) Slaves and servants. Domestics transported from the colonies to Denmark-Norway in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Negotiation Status and Scope of Action. Interrelations between Slavery and Other Forms of Dependency in Early Modern Europe . Universität Bremen; Bremen. 2017-06-15 - 2017-06-18.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2017) Tjeneste og tvang. Tjenestefolk i Norge på 1700-talle. Tolfte Ekonomisk-historiska mötet . Ekonomisk-historiska mötet; Stockholm. 2017-10-12 - 2017-10-12.
2016
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2016) Freedom and work. Slaves and domestic servants in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. XIV Nordic Labour History Conference 2016 ; Reykjavik. 2016-11-28 - 2016-11-30.
2015
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2015) Are servants always women? Reflections on the use of "gender" in research on domestic service. XI Nordiska Kvinno- och Genushistorikermötet 2015 . Stockholms universitet; Stockholm. 2015-08-19 - 2015-08-21.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2015) Domestic service and consumption. A study of eigtheenth-century Denmark-Norway. Spices and Stockings-Cultures of Consumption in the periphery, 1600-1850 . MIRA Group; Uppsala Universitet. 2015-06-12 - 2015-06-14.
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Popular scientific lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2015) Grådige tjenere, eller mat & moral. Forskningsdagene ved HiSF . Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane; Sogndal. 2015-09-23.
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Popular scientific lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2015) Presentasjon av doktorgradsavhandling på bokkafé på bibliotetek på HiSF. Bokkafé . Biblioteket, HiSF; Sogndal. 2015-03-26.
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2015) Rural servants in pre-industrial Denmark-Norway. A comparison. Rural History 2015 . University of Girona; Girona. 2015-09-07 - 2015-09-10.
2014
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Popular scientific lectureSpring, Ulrike; Østhus, Hanne. (2014) Hvordan gjøre de usynlige synlige? Tjenestefolk, historien om 1814 og det nyrestaurerte Eidsvoll. Forskningsdagane i Sogndal ; Sogndal. 2014-09-24 - 2014-09-24.
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LectureØsthus, Hanne. (2014) Philip Roths "The Plot Against America". Forskningsdagane i Sogndal . Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane; Sogndal. 2014-09-24 - 2014-09-24.
2012
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2012) “The Authority of the Mistress- Mistress-servant relations in Copenhagen and Christiania in the late eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century”. Den 10. nordiske kjønnshistorikerkonferansen . Universitetet i Bergen; Bergen. 2012-08-09 - 2012-08-12.
2011
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2011) “Working youth in the eighteenth-century. Apprentices and apprenticeship in Copenhagen and Christiania". Det 27.nordiske historikermøtet . Universitetet i Tromsø; Tromsø. 2011-08-11 - 2011-08-14.
2007
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Academic lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2007) “Conflicts in the Workplace: Female Servants in Court, 1776-1795". Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe . Uppsala Universitet; Uppsala. 2007-12-11 - 2007-12-13.
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Popular scientific lectureØsthus, Hanne. (2007) “Da Anne Christiansdatter saksøkte Peter Petersen. Arbeidsrettssaker på 1700-tallet”. Arkivdagen 2007 . Riksarkivet; Riksarkivet. 2007-11-10 - 2007-11-10.