History of the Family

Papers
(The median citation count of History of the Family is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dogs in the picture: restoring the queer history of the Irish family19
The expatriation act of 1907, marital assimilation, and citizenship-based intermarriage in the U.S.8
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka7
Reproductive responses to revolution and repression in Finland, 1917–19197
The gift of life after slavery: close-kin ownership, slavery and manumission in Suriname 1765-17956
The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto6
Marriage patterns of Irish convict women in nineteenth-century Tasmania5
Sharing memory and identity across generations: an interdisciplinary memory conversation and oral history project5
‘Look past the darkness and into the light’: British Chinese caterers’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic 15
Familial lives in concordia : gender roles, social dynamics and emotions in Ancient Rome5
Mortality, morcellation, and the market: the impact of epidemic disease mortality on land distribution in a seventeenth-century-Holland village5
’Whither do you now wish to go?’: slavery, flight and longing in and around Manado (Indonesia) in the age of abolition4
Children as pawns on the national Chess board: children in Israel’s 1948 war of Independence4
Marriages of love and convenience: The French dating market and the revolution of romantic love (19th-20th century)4
Centralized power, decentralized ambitions: the reconfiguration of local power during the transition from Goryeo to Joseon Korea4
Living together, loving together: pet families in the 21st century4
Black boxes in nominal record linkage with historical sources4
Editorial4
Tracing the missing pieces of the puzzle: how individual cause-of-death data can break through unresolved debates on historical and contemporary health issues4
School maturity and the quest for normalcy: how parental complaints shaped expertise and state policies in socialist Hungary and East Germany, 1960s-1980s3
The ‘pro-life’ generation: generational renewal and historical continuities in the fight against abortion in Belgium (1968–2023)3
Adolescent growth and convict transportation to nineteenth-century Australia3
Stability and survival: Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s3
Transition to consistent contraceptive practices in Finland: access to abortion and birth control, 1950s–1970s3
The US baby boom and the 1935 Social Security Act3
Wanted: marriage partner! Partner preferences in newspaper contact adverts in the Netherlands, 1900-19553
Transatlantic crossings: travel, family visits and emotions in the early American republic3
The quest for a partner in the past and today: exploring trends and drivers in partner preferences and selection through new sources and approaches3
Settlement and the intergenerational dispersion of kin as a spatial process in the nineteenth century US3
Historical trends in female nuptiality in Italy and analysis of possible underlying reasons2
Daughters over sons: could physical labor and social stress have shaped birth patterns of single mothers in 19th-century Poznań?2
An approach to historical demography and family history through a life course2
Transgenerational effects of early-life experiences on descendants’ height and life span. An explorative study using Texel Island (Netherlands) genealogies, 18th-21stcenturies2
Pensions and household structure: Pennsylvania Railroad retirees in 1900, 1910, and 19202
Assessing the determinants of intragenerational social mobility across occupational trajectories in Southern Europe: Catalonia (1880s-1950s)2
Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history2
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Paternal life course effects on son’s heights outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-19602
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression2
Unveiling alternative quantitative narratives of gender and employment in Southern Europe from 19th- and 20th-Century photographs: from pixels to socioeconomic insights using computer vision technique2
Dynamic interplay of kinship and net-fertility: a comprehensive analysis across demographic transitions in Mexico2
The Russian peasant family in the twentieth century: a structural-typological and dynamic analysis2
Kin networks of local officials in 19th and Early 20th century China2
Introduction to the special issue mothers and fathers in medieval and early modern Europe2
What about the widows? Widowhood and households in Cape Town 1938/19392
Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice2
Uncommon sex ratio at birth during the Second World War: evidence from Poland2
Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–19592
From pragmatism to passion: changing partner preferences in Dutch matrimonial and contact advertisements, 1841–19952
Assessing epidemic outbreaks in late medieval Catalonia (1348–1530): from communities to family units2
Widowhood and female agency in the Dutch-colonial Indian Ocean World. Rethinking social networks through local women’s lives (1750–1800)2
Silence in turns: traces of discrimination in different generations of Turkish migrant families in Hamburg (1961–2021)2
Marriage, Financial Constraints, and Morality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Jamaica2
Household, family, and community responses to the direct costs of epidemics2
The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Canada, 1981–20212
Youth Defence, young people and anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c. 1992–972
Breaking secular endogamy. The growth of intermarriage among the Gitanos/Calé of Spain (1900–2006)1
Racial preferences in dating apps: an experimental approach1
Moving targets in historical family demography. Reflections on a personal research agenda1
Rural matriarchs: hypogamy, kinship networks and female agency in 19th-century Frisia1
Stress and survival: analysing child mortality among elite families in Bohemia 1816–19201
Genealogy in social media: navigating time and space1
Everyday life, child rearing, and fatherhood in Ottoman middle class families at the turn of the 20th century1
Work, marriage, and childbearing trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881–19111
Conspiracy or care? Excess mortality and institutionalised children in the Netherlands, 1860s–1960s1
‘Came to her dressed in mans cloaths’: transgender histories and queer approaches to the family in eighteenth-century Ireland1
Did migration alter the path of the demographic transition for French Canadians in the United States?1
Locked-in: the early modern family as an institutional solution1
Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–19001
Plague and hunger. Epidemic-induced pressures on household purchasing power in fourteenth-century Flanders1
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia1
The role of migrant networks on economic outcomes during the age of mass migration: Swedish immigrants in the U.S. 1900–19201
Faster extraction of matrimonial advertisements from digital archives using a signal processing pipeline: a case study on a 20th-Century Spanish newspaper1
Correction1
“Amour à vendre” in Paris: an empirical analysis of the relationship between grain price and sex work in the first half of the nineteenth century1
Fixed vows, fluid times: partner selection in rural Estonia, 1834‒19170
The Irish family, marital breakdown and the Josie Airey case, c . 1974-19810
‘Glad to the heart to see any of my brothers’: exploring Irish family life through sibling relationships0
Women as child carers: Arranging and compensating mothering in early modern Lancashire0
New women willing to be concubines? Extramarital cohabitation, family politics, and state in modern China0
Correction0
Understanding living alone among the young- and middle-aged in China (1990-2010): A gender perspective0
“He agreed to take in both children and committed to caring for and educating them” social work reports on fathers in Mandatory Palestine0
The victims of the last great Bubonic plague epidemic in Ottoman Anatolia: dynamics of mortality by age and gender during the plague epidemic of Kastamonu (1836–1839)0
Birth order, sibling size and educational attainment in twentieth century Spain0
The social care-taking of the city-kids. Determinants for day-care attendance in early twentieth-century southern Sweden0
Building a new life: migrant women’s experience of home0
Varieties of egalitarianism: gender ideologies in the late socialism of the German Democratic Republic0
Family and labour in an Angolan cash-crop economy, 19100
Personal advertising and dating culture in World War II Finland0
The anti-abortion movement, Catholic Church, and communist state: Poland in the 1970s and 1980s0
Correction0
Inequalities in North American fertility since 19210
High-skilled mobility from Turkey to Germany: ‘uneasy minds’0
A doctor for the crown princess: child mortality and women’s political agency at the Danish court, 1784–17970
Unemployment, divorce, and longevity: the major factors of the fertility upward evolution in Tunisia, during 1998-2018: a dynamic panel data analysis0
Antakya at the crossroads of Europe: diaspora, homeland, and networks in post-Ottoman Arab Antiochian family migration narratives0
Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–19070
Environmental stressors across time: historical insights and contemporary challenges0
Households and communities: evolution in Homo sapiens0
Transitory inequalities: how individual-level cause-specific death data can unravel socioeconomic inequalities in infant mortality in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1864–19550
Why did the civil code of Meiji Japan provide the same surname for couples? Westernization, de-Chineseization, and the construction of a national state0
The social, economic, and environmental unequal impact of cholera on deaths: an analysis of the 1872–1873 epidemic in Transylvania0
A large-scale study on the seasonality of marriages (Italy 1810–12)0
Trends in assortative mating in the United States, 1700–1910. Evidence from FamiLinx data0
Casting shadows: later-life outcomes of stature0
Bearing the costs of epidemics: remaining households in Hermannstadt/Sibiu during the 1719–1720 and 1738–1739 plague outbreaks0
Quantifying heterosexual cohabitation without a dedicated source. The example of Paris from the 19th century to the interwar period0
Height, occupation, and intergenerational mobility: an instrumental variable analysis of Dutch men, birth years 1850-19000
Finding families near and far in Canada and the United States0
Layered meritocracy family background and multiple pathways to success in the Joseon civil service examinations, 1393–18940
Society, economy and missing girls in 18th century Spain0
‘I praie ye send for the courall’: children’s coral as the physical embodiment of parental hopes and fears in early modern England0
Polygynous households and legal transculturation: The status of concubines in eighteenth to nineteenth century Ryukyu and the Sinicization of family law0
Welcome to our channel and home” : the mediatization of Turkish family history through family YouTube channels0
“Actions speak louder than words: constance of France and motherhood in 12th-century Norman Italy”0
Indirect pathways of multigenerational persistence: the role of uncles and assortative mating in the Netherlands, 1857-19220
Identifying matrilineal kin networks in the United States 1900–19400
Hurricanes, fertility, and family structure: a study of early 20th century Jamaica0
Zadruga on trial – the 19 th century Serbian joint family household between protection of collective possession and affirmation of private propert0
Acı Vatan (bitter homeland) revisited: Cold War labor migration and the transformation of the Turkish family0
Remarriage and Stepfamilies in the ‘Western Islands’ of Europe: the rural Azores of Portugal in the 18th and 19th centuries0
RIFNET. A new agenda for the Irish family: messy realities & messier lives0
Tables and families. Value, emotions and aesthetics of conviviality in two culinary manuscripts of the Mexican elites of the 19th century0
The sisyphean rock of family-forsaken prostitutes: a study of the family factors of prostitutes’ predicament in Beijing during the Beiyang Period (1912—1928)0
Rethinking mothering and fathering in medieval and early modern europe0
Correction0
Correction0
Causes, connections, and continuous measures: where we are going in family history0
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates0
Queering family history and the lives of Irish men before gay liberation0
Migration, precarisation and telework: an autoethnography of a family from Turkey to Greece0
Rebuilding life after slavery. Manumission, emancipation, and family networks in European empires, 1750–19000
Tracing trans-imperial transfers of enslaved people between the Dutch and Danish West Indies, 1834–18480
‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: reopening the debate0
What can Europe’s history of gender bias tell us about Asia’s contemporary experience?0
Weaponizing the law: Acción Familiar and ‘pro-life’ strategic litigation in Spain (1985–1990)0
Three myths about old age before modernity – and why historians should care0
Stepmothers and stepdaughters in early modern Florence0
Epidemics and urban growth: the impact of cholera in Nineteenth-century Prussia0
Nutritional status and adult mortality in a mid-20th century Gambian population: do different types of physical ‘capital’ have different associations with mortality?0
Wealth and marriage at the Cape: consanguineous unions as a strategy0
Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.17500
Love in the time of cholera. Cholera epidemics and changes in the marriage market in nineteenth-century Poznań0
Did the grandmother’s exposure to environmental stress during pregnancy affect the birth body size of her grandchildren? The Polish evidence0
Integration practices of Turkish families in the UK: a comparative biographical study of first and second wave migrant families0
Mapping the Jewish family in eighteenth-century east-central Europe. Diversity, unity and in-law equality0
A geography of marriage: recruitment distance and household structure in Dutch and French shipping, 1793–18020
The Wolf , the island and the sea: truancy and escaping slavery in Curacao (1837–1863)0
Institutional, social, and household determinants of reproduction in Northeast China, 1789-19060
Black residents of Windsor, Ontario during the U.S. Civil War: family histories answer questions left open by the 1860, 1861, 1864, 1870, and 1871 censuses0
Care and crisis: disaster experiences of Australian parents since 19740
What hypotheses can research on son preference in Asia offer for European historical demographic research?0
On solid ground? Manumitted slaves, land ownership and registration in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka0
Globalization and the impact of the late 19th-century agrarian crisis on well-being: anthropometric evidence from rural Catalonia0
Long-term changes in the characteristics of one-person households in Sweden, 1960-20180
An emotional biography of spousal abandonment: crisis and identities among women admitted to the Casa de Misericordia in Barcelona (eighteenth century)0
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