HLCS is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal on historical population studies. Methodological papers and databases reports are also wellcome.

Joined February 2022
We are very pleased to announce a new article by Milene dos Anjos Fernades: “Recurrent Mobility Across Individual and Family Life Courses. Internal and Transatlantic Movements in Fafe, Northern Portugal, 1830–1920”. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs28213
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We just posted a new addition to our special issue on causes of death: “Sources and Databases on Mortality and Morbidity in Finland, 1750–1950” by Sara Luostarinen, Iida Lahtinen and Saara-Maija Kontturi. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25577
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Happy to announce the latest addition to our special issue on causes of death: “A Database of Causes of Death Based on Parish Registers from the Borderlands of Present-Day Slovakia. The Case of Detva Parish, 1861–1885” by Jan Golian. hlcs.nl/article/view/26535
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A new addition to our special issue on causes of death is now available: "Cause-of-Death Statistics in Sweden During the Finnish War 1808–1809. The Wegelius Journal From Röbäck Hospital" by Elina Nordung Omnell and Erling Häggström Gunfridsson. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs26147
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We just posted a new a addition to our special issue on causes of death: “Tracing Mortality in 19th-Century Albanian Provinces. Parish Registers and Death-Causes in Shkodra and Jubani”, by Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Pandelejmoni and Siegfried Gruber. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs26145
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We are pleased to announce a new article by Mark Gortfelder "Historical Development and Persistence of the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy in Estonia From the 19th to the 21st Century." Read the article: doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25298
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Happy to share a new article by Yunus Emre Çakır: Household-Anchored Record Linkage in Ottoman Population Registers: A Dynamic Tolerance Protocol for Low-Information Administrative Proto-Census Data. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs26961
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Proud to share a new addition to our special issue on causes of death. In this latest contribution, Elena Glavatskaya, Dmitry Bakharev, Elizaveta Zabolotnykh, and Alexandr Bobitsky explore causes of death in late Imperial Ekaterinburg, Russia. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25898
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We just posted a new addition to our special issue on causes of death by Vladimir Krivošejev: "Church Death Registers as a Source for Researching Causes of Death Before and During World War I. The Case of the Parish Church in Dračić (Serbia)". doi.org/10.52024/hlcs26373
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The latest article in our special issue “Counting the Death” is now online: Irish Cause-of-Death Data, 1864–1921, by Ciara Breathnach, Rachel Murphy, Marco Krumrey, Daniel Sami Mitwalli, Sebastian Teumert and Tiziana Margaria; doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25641
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Historical Life Course Studies journal retweeted
Map of Europe with each country represented by one of its most recognizable pieces of art. Even though I’d argue France should have a picture of Asterix 😉 Source: buff.ly/2eKIYUV
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Happy to share a new addition to our special issue “Counting the Death”: Deaths and Statistics. Discovering the Dead of the East Africa Campaign of the First World War, by George Hay and John Burke. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25867
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We are happy to announce an article by Giulia Corti and Emanuele Fedeli: Mapping the Roots of Healthcare Inequalities in Post-Unification Italy. Geographical Accessibility and Territorial Disparities. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs23804
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We just posted a new addition to our special issue on causes of death: Addressing health. Collecting and coding causes of morbidity from the United Kingdom, 1860–1908, by Harry Smith, David R. Green, Kathleen McIlvenna and Nicola Shelton. hlcs.nl/article/view/25912
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We are happy to announce a new addition to our special issue "Counting the Death": Aragonese Socieconomic Inequality at Death Database (ASIDD) by Francisco J. Marco-Gracia, María Pilar Rodrigo Val & Judit Gil-Farrero. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs26294
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We just posted a new addition to the special issue “Counting the Death”: The Intricacies of Sources on Causes of Death, Their Interpretation, and the Construction of a Database for the City of Poznań, 1830–1900 by Liczbińska, Pankowski, Antosik, Kowalska. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25008
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We just posted a new addition to our special issue by Igor Serdiuk and Sviatoslav Chyruk on causes of death in 19th-century Ukraine: doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25896
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Happy to announce a new addition to our special issue on causes of death: Individual-Level Causes of Death in Portugal, 1834–1910. Their Potential and Pitfalls for Studying Health Inequalities, by Paulo Teodoro de Matos, Diogo Paiva. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25479
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We just posted another article to our current special issue, on causes of death in Hungary, by Péter Öri and Levente Pakot. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25909
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Proud to announce a new addition to our special issue on causes of death by Matteo Manfredini and Lucia Pozzi: A New Source for the Study of Unexplored Aspects of the Italian Health Transition: The Burial Permits. doi.org/10.52024/hlcs25553
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