#ESHD2025 Last Key Note Talk Julieta Rotaru @Inalco Ethnic Identity Formation and Socio-Professional Dynamics: A Study of Romanians, Gypsies, and Rudari in the Romanian Principalities

oday, keynote talk is given by Pulitzer Prize winner David Kertzer on Changing Jews into Aryan’s in Fascist Italy #ESHD2025

#ESDH2025 has started! Prof. Guido Barbujani is giving the first keynote on the famous human races.

Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by almost 60% since 1985

C'est parti ! @eshistdemo.bsky.social

#ESHD2025 is just 5 days away! Soon Bologna will become the hub of historical demography. We’re finalizing the last details and look forward to welcoming scholars from across the globe. Check out the most updated programme here: eshd2025.eshd.eu/programme/

We've done it: 60 blogs over our 60th Anniversary Year! Check out all 60 #Campop blogs here www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/, and keep your eyes peeled for occasional blogs to follow in the same space! @camunicampop.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to teach our @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social cause-of-death coding course at @monashuniversity.bsky.social in Melbourne with colleagues joining from Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.

After a week in Brisbane for #IPC2025, I’m on my way to Melbourne for a research stay at @monashuniversity.bsky.social for coding historical causes of death and discussing AI and construction of historical databases. Pretty excited

In Cambridge, as part of the @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social -funded Training Course on Coding Historical Causes of Death, we spent two days—together with @amrcampop.bsky.social , M. Murkens, and E. Garrett—training participants from across Europe in the use of the ICD10h.

Fascinating story--loved learning that John Snow was also compelled to correct popular misconceptions of science! #episky

In Zurich for the @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social workshop 'Analysing Historical Mortality and Cause of Death Data' – a very fruitful two days with researchers from diverse backgrounds and excellent ideas for future work.

Excited to share our new paper w/ K. Wienholts, M. Murkens and M. Mühlichen, just published in Medical History! We explore “infantile convulsions” as a historical cause of death using data from four European cities, 1800–1955.

🚨 Call for Applications! 🚨 📅 22–23 July 2025 📍 Monash University, Melbourne 🇦🇺 💀 Historical mortality meets digital innovation! 🔹 ICD10h Training Course (22 Jul) 🔹 Digital History Symposium (23 Jul) Apply by **11 June** ➡️ (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...)

Campop blog #49: Levels of self-employment were low in mid-20th century UK: Bob Bennett explains how much higher they were in the 19th century, as well as who was self-employed and why @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...

Exciting to see the seven little maps I made for this book about diseases and mortality in 19th and early 20th c Amsterdam in print ✨ (Book recommendation, too! Get your copy now: libris.nl/a/owen-lamme...)

After sitting in the drawer for a few years, my paper on tuberculosis mortality in early 20th-century Greece has just been finally published in Social Science History. bit.ly/44CJIVL

📝 WORKSHOP: Writing Individual Grants on Inequalities in Health 📅 June 25 | ⏰ 14:00 – 15:30 CET | 💻 Online Planning to apply for an individual research grant? Join our interactive workshop focused on crafting strong proposals in the field of health inequalities. 🧵⬇️

If you don’t know your Miss for your Mrs I strongly suggest you read our new @camunicampop.bsky.social blog by Amy Erickson on the history of these titles. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...

Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞

Looking for a PhD candidate to study how first names provided information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (circa 1750-1950). More info on the position here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

👀 Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join our wonderful unit in beautiful Göteborg, Sweden! 2-3 fully funded doctoral position in Economic/Business history ✌️Join a young and supportive bunch of researchers with the unique opportunity to develop your own research agenda!

My first ever PAA! Excited to be here to connect with other scholars and to hear such high-quality ongoing research #PAA2025

I'm in DC for #PAA2025, but today I'm spending my afternoon at the Library of Congress. Look at my view

Whoops, meant to say 'the introduction of midwifery training did NOT seem to have an impact - today's blog explains why'

On my way to Leiden for ESSHC 2025 — excited to connect with other scholars and share research in progress. Tomorrow, I'll be presenting a paper on stillbirths in early 20th-century Greece among colleagues and friends.

We are organizing this super cool training course on coding Historical Causes of Death in Cambridge this summer. Deadline is approaching, April 1st.

📢 GREATLEAP Networking Event! At the same time and place, @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social is hosting an informal event to talk to peers and mentors about mortality. With drinks! Want to sign up? ⬇️ 📍 Einstein, Leiden 📆 27 March 18:00-20:00 ℹ️ Info & registration: greatleap.eu/event/mentor...

Our article "Human capital in Europe, 1830s–1930s: A general survey" is out in an issue at the Journal fo Economic Surveys 39 (2), which is a special issue titled "Metrics and Drivers of Well‐Being in the Long‐Run." 1/2

In a new article, I explore the baby boom in 7 charts, including some trends you (probably) didn't know: 1. Birth rates began to rise in the 1930s, before World War II

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

Only 2 days left to submit your abstract for the ESHD conference! ⏳✨ Beyond an intellectually stimulating event, we promise delicious food, beautiful weather, and magnificent walks around the city. Don't miss out! 📜🍷🌿

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

📢 Deadline extended! You now have until Feb 14 to submit your abstract for the forthcoming ESHD conference in Bologna in Sep 2025.

Campop blog #33: In the UK the infants of non-cohabiting parents are still at higher risk of infant death than those of cohabiting parents. This week's blog explores the historical trends and reasons for such disadvantage @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...

"findings reveal diminishing role of vertical ties (parents–children) & increasing significance of horizontal ties (between siblings). Intensification of horizontal ties is seen as cooperative, challenging the notion of a loss of family influence during industrialization"

📣New blog post alert! 📣 The covid pandemic radically changed where - and how - we work. WFH became the "new normal", with much of the extra domestic burden falling on women. But was this, in fact, a break with the past - or a return to historical norms? www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians

There's still time to submit to the ESHD Conference in September! Reminder: the AYHD is organising a Flash Session! Here you can present early-stage work or research already presented in other sessions. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal field. eshd2025.eshd.eu

So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess - map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address - link census to other spatial datasets Get the code and data 👇

Bonjour les nouveaux.elles !pour suivre des historien.nes démographes c'est ici ! Hello to the new ones! If you want to follow historical demographers, it's here! go.bsky.app/5kHeTWH

Join us at Cambridge in early July to code historical causes of death!

Coupling and Fertility are Falling. In Finland, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey and the US, both are going down. Superb column by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social A must-read for anyone interested in why fertility is falling, and how to respond. 🧵

Deadline is approaching. Only a few weeks left to apply for the ESHD, which will be held in beautiful Bologna in September 2025.

📢 Gaza: 64,000 deaths due to violence between October 2023 & June 2024, new study estimates. LSHTM research in The Lancet suggests Palestinian Ministry of Health underreported death toll due to traumatic injury by approximately 41%. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Campop blog #30: Were all workhouses the oppressive institutions of Dickens' Oliver Twist? Jeremy Boulton and Samantha Williams show that 18th century workhouses, in contrast to later ones, were usually humane and kindly places @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

Judge the success of family policies on their impact on family wellbeing NOT fertility, argue two demographers in this review of family policies in low fertility countries. They find family policies have relatively limited impact on fertility anyway onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The movie Home Alone was released in November 1990, at the start of the US-led Gulf War. It was #1 at the box office until that wars end, in February 1991. The film’s popularity can in part be explained by its fitting with liberal arguments about America’s failure in Vietnam 1/10

We are delighted to have David Kertzer as our keynote speaker (and to meet him in person!) at the #ESHD2025 Conference.

📢 Plenary speakers for our #ESHD2025 Conference Martin Dribe (Lund University) "Mortality Inequality from Industrialization to the Welfare State" September 12th 6th Conference European Society of Historical #Demography #Bologna 10-13/9/2025 👉 eshd2025.eshd.eu