SHOC member Leonie Vanlerberghe recently led an engaging workshop on “Gender in Personal Documents” at the Spring Conference of the Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG), together with Stefan Kras (history teacher and PhD researcher) and Jessie Baerts (Master student Gender and Diversity Ghent University). Leonie shared compelling excerpts from autobiographies of socialist workers, preserved at the Amsab Institute for Social History. Stefan introduced letters written in 1943 by 17- and 18-year-old boys forced into labour in Germany, offering a poignant glimpse into their correspondence with friends back home in the Netherlands. Jessie, in turn, invited participants to read along with the diary of a woman from Ghent during the First World War. Together, these sources opened up vivid perspectives on the lives of individuals that are usually underrepresented in the evidence!