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Oana Sorescu-Iudean

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Researcher at Centre for Population Studies, @Babes-Bolyai University Postdoc @New Europe College in “TransCoRR” Co-lead of WG3 @eurohealthhist.bsky.social Social historian, demography and econ hist on the side. Transylvania, East-Central Europe

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Aug 4

Finally out, on the economic impact of plague on remaining households (wealth& income) in early 18thC Hermannstadt(Transylvania). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #econhist #skystorians

Bearing the costs of epidemics: remaining households in Hermannstadt/Sibiu during the 1719–1720 and 1738–1739 plague outbreaks

The present study explores the converging levels at which the direct costs of plague were incurred during the first half of the eighteenth century in Hermannstadt (nowadays Sibiu), the second large...

www.tandfonline.com

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 7d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · 7d

Something for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social & any interested in the history of patient experiences.

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 7d

CFP: Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157809

Prag, 28.05.2026-29.05.2026, Dr. Kateřina Lišková, ExpertTurn, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences; Alexander Langstaff, New York University, …

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · 23d

An intense day of discussion in Cluj, on patients from the early 19th century plague to the interwar sanatoria & asylums, bereavment, grief, institutionalisation, difficult topics tackled among others by @kindkovacs.bsky.social @chendirl.bsky.social, as part of @eurohealthhist.bsky.social

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · 29d

Perhaps of interest to @eurohealthhist.bsky.social members as well?

Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Sep 5

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · Sep 5

The database from my PhD-dissertation is finally publicly available! Detailed data from 3250 south-Swedish probate records, both urban and rural, from between 1570 and the 1860s, free for anyone to use for your own projects.

www.lusem.lu.se/organisation...

South-Sweden Probate Inventory Database, 1570–1860

Lund University. Both labourers and farmers improved their material living standards – as measured by the contents of probate inventories – but the labouring households’ ownership of means of producti...

www.lusem.lu.se

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Aug 23

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information:

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Aug 20

call for no more papers

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Aug 18

Probably in this dimension

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Chuck Noblet @chucknoblet.bsky.social · Aug 8

"generate a map of the USA with each state named"

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Aug 6

Also recently published in the History of the Family, a groundbreaking analysis of inequalities in death during 1872-1873 cholera epidemic in Transylvania, by my colleagues @crinelaholom.bsky.social and M. Haragus. Should be of interest to #econhist #skystorians

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Aug 4

Finally out, on the economic impact of plague on remaining households (wealth& income) in early 18thC Hermannstadt(Transylvania). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #econhist #skystorians

Bearing the costs of epidemics: remaining households in Hermannstadt/Sibiu during the 1719–1720 and 1738–1739 plague outbreaks

www.tandfonline.com

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Jul 28

And excellent food, too!

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Cristian Cercel @cercel.bsky.social · Apr 15

I published something in the latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. It’s on the Lorrainians/French in Banat, it’s in English and it’s open access. Check it out here: www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a... www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a...

(How) Could One Be French in Banat (1770–1920)? | Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung

www.zfo-online.de

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Jul 24

Sharing this again because too many in higher ed think the appropriate analgesic for this pain is AI.

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · Jul 24

"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."

A Profession, If You Can Keep It

Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Jul 22

Sem: Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156512

Vienna, 24.10.2025-13.12.2025, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Manuscript, Rare Books and Archival Studies Initiative (MARBAS), Princeton University, …

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Jul 21

Wholeheartedly agree!

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Colonial Networks @colnet.bsky.social · Jul 17

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Jul 17

Had such a fantastic time at #CEH-C this afternoon! It was wonderful to finally speak about Transylvania to an audience who “gets” the region & seeing so many friends and colleagues. hoping this is the first of many editions! Thank you @univie.ac.at @dominiquereill.bsky.social and everyone else!

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Jul 16

Long meetings without results in 1776 @OeStA

Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · Jul 15

Reading letters from old friends in the archives @OeStA before the #CEH-C

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · Jul 10

We're hiring! Join CeMESS @univie.ac.at as a DATA STEWARD and help shape the future of research data management. Collaborate with top researchers and drive innovation in Open Science.

Apply now! 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/career-educa...

Data Steward

The University of Vienna plans to expand the existing Research Data Management services by offering discipline-specific support through a new Data Stewardship program tailored to meet the discipline-s...

cemess.univie.ac.at

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Jaco Zuijderduijn @jacozuijderduijn.bsky.social · Jul 11

Cfp: "From craft guilds to unions". Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for early-career economic and social historians, 11-17 May 2026, Prato (Italy).
Learn more about your field of studies, make friends, and enjoy lovely Prato!
Apply before 15 October:
www.istitutodatini.it/ester/htm/ca...
Pls. share!

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Jul 2

Join us at #ViCAS - a new interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna! 🏛️
Application for Senior #Fellowships and Early-Career Fellowships are now possible. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
📅 Deadline for Application: 1st September 2025.
Apply now: ⤵️
vicas.univie.ac.at
#PhDSky #AcademicSky

Michael Wagner - Deputy Head - Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science: "Now launching: ViCAS, the University of Vienna's new Center for Advanced Studies - an international hub for all disciplines, offering prestigious 9-month fellowships for bold, transformative research in one of Europe's most inspiring cities."

Manuela Baccarini, Vice Rector for Research and International Affairs Systems Science: "Join us at ViCAS and become part of a vibrant community of scholars committed to pushing the boundaries of multi- and transdisciplinary research from the humanities to the natural and life science."

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · Jul 8

Check out @jelenasubotic.bsky.social's thread about the new article and the forthcoming RIS special issue 🧵👇

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨My new article, part of a @risjnl.bsky.social special issue on heritage I co-edited with the wonderful @elifkalay.bsky.social. I explore how the frenzy for acquiring antiquities in early 19th century (most famously, the Parthenon Marbles) was really international competition for cultural status.

The 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

The 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · Jul 3

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists.

Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk

#skystorians

Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants' War

The the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of religious houses during the German Peasants' War (1525-26).

germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk

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