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New online first article by Rebecca Sear 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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Incarceration stunted the physical growth of adolescent men convicted and transported to Australia 1816-1853, in spite of a calorie-rich diet. No evidence of stunting among women. New article in The History of the Family. tandfonline.com/eprint/JI4USKB… doi.org/10.1080/108160…

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. doi.org/10.1080/108160…

📢 Deadline Extended December 24th ! A few more days to submit your abstracts to the #ESHD2023 European Society for Historical Demography Conference! Next September in Nijmegen Netherlands Deadline extended till December 24th More info 👉 eshd2023.eshd.eu

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. doi.org/10.1080/108160…

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 think.taylorandfrancis.com/history-family…

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. tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/28/1

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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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 think.taylorandfrancis.com/history-family…

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. doi.org/10.1080/108160…

New special issue (28:2) published: Height and Later-life Outcomes! tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/28/2

📣 Spotlight Article! 📣 This fortnight's article is 'The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto' by Ana Mafalda Lopes. (1/2) ⬇️

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. doi.org/10.1080/108160…

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. doi.org/10.1080/108160…

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! tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/28/3

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. doi.org/10.1080/108160…

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: tandfonline.com/action/authorS…