The History of the Family
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An international double-blind peer reviewed journal making significant contributions to the historical study of the family.
Joined August 2018
Exciting news! 🎉 Introducing Data Notes: 3000 words peer-reviewed articles. They're your chance to concisely showcase your family history research data stored in a repository before submission. 📚🧬 #DataNotes #ResearchGems. See for more information:.
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New online article first: it shows that the human household remains parallel to the intimate social structures of other primates but that it has become greatly distinctive because of its ability to bring numerous offspring to adulthood.
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The History of the Family, Volume 28, Issue 3, 2023 is now available online! It includes articles on intermarriage, female nuptiality, day-care attendance, the baby boom, living alone, leaving home, and the Russian peasant family. All must reads!.
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New online first article: It shows that in the pre-industrial model in Sweden, leaving home was shaped by the life-cycle service system. In the industrial model, age at marriage instead became a main determinant of home leaving.
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New online first article: It demonstrates that unlike the observed pattern of living alone in the West, living alone in China is highly gendered and embodied in a rural-urban dual institution.
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RT @AYHDemographers: 📣 Spotlight Article! 📣 . This fortnight's article is 'The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships….
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New special issue (28:2) published: Height and Later-life Outcomes!.
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New online first article by Björn Quanjer: it aims to answer the question: what makes you taller than your father? To study this intergenerational growth, conscription heights from the HSN are used from the period 1820–1960.
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Only a few days left to propose special issue proposals on topics within family history and historical demography! . We hope to offer early- and mid-career scholars in particular the opportunity to showcase their research line. Deadline: April 25, 2023.
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New online first article: it investigates the potential role of natural selection in the increase in height through simulations in the Netherlands in recent history.
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The History of the Family, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2023 is now available online! . Among others, it includes articles on virginity in Athens, marriage in Tasmania, and causes-of-death in Maastricht.
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The History of the Family is soliciting special issue proposals on timely and understudied topics within family history and historical demography. Deadline: April 17, 2023.
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New online first article by Annika Elwert & Luciana Quaranta: it shows how in the early twentieth century in southern Sweden, day-care attendance followed a negative SES gradient and was most common among children of single mothers.
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RT @kris_inwood: Incarceration stunted the physical growth of adolescent men convicted and transported to Australia 1816-1853, in spite of….
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New online first article: it demonstrates that young convicts did not catch up with contemporary standards of potential stature—contrary to what we are led to expect by the existing literature and the high calorie convict diet in 19th century Australia.
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New online first article by @FJBeltranTapia and Mikołaj Szołtysek: the introduction of our next special issue, which includes a research agenda on how to fill in the gaps in the literature on ‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe.
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New online first article by Miguel Requena. It presents new evidence on the negative associations of the number of siblings and birth order with years of schooling among female and male Spanish cohorts born in the first six decades of the twentieth century.
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New online first article by @RebeccaSear et al.: it presents an analysis of data collected in four Gambian villages (1950-1974), to investigate whether three different measures – height, BMI or haemoglobin level – are associated with adult mortality.
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