Environment and demographic systems. Mortality and mobility in the French province of Dombes, from the XVIIth to the XIXth century • Guy Brunet, Université de Lyon ; Alain Bideau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

The impact of “sanitary environment” on health in  Umbra and Sardinia at the end of the 19th century • Odoardo Bussini, Università di Perugia ; Donatella Lanari, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

‘Summer is here, fraught with death to hapless babes’: the seasonality of infant mortality in late nineteenth-century Tasmania • Rebecca Kippen, University of Melbourne

The effects of early life conditions on female later life outcomes • Luciana Quaranta, Lund University ; Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University

The historical development of mortality in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the 19th century • Marlen Toch, Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change ; James E. Oeppen, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Joshua R. Goldstein, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research