Article 2025
Authors / editors: Dariusz Chojecki
Published in: Przegląd Zachodniopomorski
The Prussian province of Pomerania, in Polish historiography referred to as "Pomorze Zachodnie", an area the size of Belgium, became the site of a massive influx of ethnic Poles in the early 20th century. Despite numerous studies devoted to seasonal migration and the indigenous K…
DOI: 10.18276/pz.2025.40-04 · ISSN: 0552-4245
Article 2025
Authors / editors: Agnieszka Zoch
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents the sex and marital status structures as well as the demographic characteristics of households and families among the Christian and Jewish residents of Białystok in the second half of the 18th century. The source material for the study was the posthumous inve…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2025.47-03 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2025
Authors / editors: Ewelina Wałach
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article examines marriages contracted in Pstrągowa between 1851 and 1914. It presents the early history of the parish, the gradual demographic changes, and the succession of parish officials. A separate section is devoted to the source material, describing its location, acces…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2025.47-06 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2025
Authors / editors: Radosław Poniat
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article explores the potential of using late 18th-century population censuses from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for demographic analyses focused on the functioning of Jewish families. Using materials produced by the civil–military order commissions from the Kraków Voivo…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2025.47-04 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2025
Authors / editors: Paweł Franczak
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article documents the scale of famines and epidemics of infectious diseases that occurred during the Galician period (1772–1855) in eight villages located at the northern foothills of Babia Góra, inhabited by the Górale Babiogórscy [Babia Góra Highlanders]. It provides a deta…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2025.47-02 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2025
Authors / editors: Justyna Trepa
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The purpose of the article is to present changes in births in the rural parish of Biesiadki in the years marked by three cholera epidemics and the greatest famine in Galicia. The main source used in the work were the Liber Natorum of the Biesiadki parish from 1840–1879. The annua…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2025.47-05 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2025
Authors / editors: Piotr Miodunka
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article attempts to verify and reassess the demographic losses caused by the period known as the “Deluge”, that is, the Polish-Swedish War of 1655–1660. It has traditionally been assumed that these losses were extremely high, nearly comparable to those suffered by the German …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2025.47-01 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2024
Authors / editors: Laurynas Giedrimas
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article analyzes the composition of peasant and odnodvortsy family households in mid-19th-century Samogitia (Raseiniai, Šiauliai and Telšiai districts), based on data from the 1845–1856 Imperial Russian stateowned estate inventories. Using Laslett and Hammel’s (1974) typology…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2024.46-03 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2024
Authors / editors: Anna Majdzińska
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article examines the most populous cities in Poland in the interwar period (with at least 100,000 inhabitants in 1939) in terms of size, structure and reproduction of their populations. The characteristics directly describe the cities’ population potential or had a major infl…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2024.46-04 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Dawid Dziuba
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The purpose of this article is to analyze the structural characteristics of the information held in Civil Registry Office records on people reporting the death of an infant. Some fifteen thousand death records held at the CRO in Szczecin (Stettin) at the end of the 19th century w…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2023.45-06 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Szymon Antosik
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article discusses the demographic consequences of crop failures in the northeastern districts of Augustów Governorate in late 1845 and early 1846. It also raises the question of assessing the reliability of the sources that recorded vital statistics in the Russian partition, …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2023.45-05 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Piotr Rachwał
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The objective of the article is an attempt at a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the “incidental” material that is present in the pages of parish registers. This source is characterized by interdisciplinarity, but is most often used by genealogists and historical demograp…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2023.45-01 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Marcin Maciej Krasuski
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article discusses issues related to the occurrence of illegitimate births in the rural Roman Catholic community of Trzebieszów parish in the Łuków region, in the years 1815–1867. This article addresses issues related to the number of births out of wedlock, the social and terr…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2022.44-03 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Rolf Gehrmann
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
Taking advantage of relatively well-preserved Prussian statistics, the author examines the dynamics of the Pomeranian population in the 18th century to suggest priorities for further studies at both the individual and local community level. He proposes to take the concept of the …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2022.44-02 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Anna Majdzińska
Published in: Przegląd Zachodniopomorski
Depopulation processes are the result of asuccessive actual decrease in population, result- ing from natural or migratory population loss. These factors can occur simultaneously in a given area, or just one can generate population loss. Depopulation processes cause many negative …
DOI: 10.18276/pz.2022.37-16 · ISSN: 0552-4245
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Krzysztof Narojczyk
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
A vast, two-volume list of all the towns and villages of the Kingdom of Poland was published in 1827, with the number of houses and residents, and the type of ownership specified in it. It was the only official publication issued by the then central statistical body of the state …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2021.43-02 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Radosław Gaziński
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article aims to show the value that Protestant parish registers kept in the State Archives in Szczecin have for demographic research. The paper will also examine the internal structure of the Pomeranian and New Marchian parish registers, showing the changes that took place in…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2020.42-07 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Józef Pociecha
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The aim of the research is to trace the process of demographic transition in the area of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, enlarged by areas with a predominantly Polish-speaking population, Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia, as well as Southern Masuria. The time frame of…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2020.42-05 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Iwona Janicka
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
During the first cholera epidemic in Vilnius in 1831, a hospital for cholera patients was set up in the Pohulanka district. Over a thousand patients were treated there, of whom approximately half died. Although it was intended for the Roman Catholic population, people of various …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2020.42-03 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Dawid Dziuba
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents infant mortality in Polish historical research and points towards more important works focusing on the above issue. The author analyses approximately seventy academic works in order to answer the fundamental question as to what extent they deal with the issue…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2020.42-01 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Jakub Pieczara
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article attempts to establish basic demographic parameters for the inhabitants of Wieliczka in the 18th century. The aim of the research is to investigate whether the nature of Wieliczka family farms was similar to the results obtained in other cities and regions located in P…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2019.41-04 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Igor Serdiuk, Yuriy Voloshyn
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article is an introduction to the state of development of historical demographic studies in Ukrainian historiography. The authors try to explain why, at a time when historical demography was the mainstream in world historiography, it made practically no progress in Soviet Uk…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2019.41-01 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Oksana Kovalenko
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
This article focuses on the history of the family and households in eighteenth-century Ukraine. The aim of the article is to observe the demographical characteristics of craftsman guild families and households in the Cossack Hetmanate (an autonomous Cossack territory situated on …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2018.40-03 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Iwona Foryś
Published in: Studia i Prace WNEiZ US
The article deals with the issue of demographic changes in Polish society, in particular with reference to the process of population ageing. The increase in the oldest age groups is unfavorable, not least because of the simple replacement of generations or the social security sys…
DOI: 10.18276/sip.2018.54/3-16 · ISSN: 2450-7733
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Stefan Dmitruk
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
In the aftermath of the First World War there were a lot of migrations. One of them was the evacuation of civilian population into the depths of Russia. The aim of the publication is a demographic and statistical analysis of households of the western counties of the Grodno Govern…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-11 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Aleksandra Dul
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
This paper attempts to provide a detailed characteristic of social relations among the inhabitants of Iwanowice parish, a rural area near Krakow, over a time span of fifteen years within the first half of the 19th century. Social network analysis tools are used for an assessment …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-08 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Ewa Kaźmierczyk
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents an analysis of the demographic structure of the Roman Catholic population in the County of Proszowice on the basis of the censuses carried out in the years 1790–1792 by the Civil-Military Order Commission [Polish: Komisja Porządkowa Cywilno-Wojskowa] of the C…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-06 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Konrad Kołodziejczyk
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents a demographic description of reconstructed families in the Parish of Nowy Korczyn in the second half of the 18th century. The description has been made thanks to the method of family reconstruction recognised in demography, created by Louis Henry, which consi…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-04 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Cezary Kuklo
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents research problems and changes in the thematic extension of the works published in the 38 volumes of Poland’s Demographic Past (Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski, PDP) for the last 50 years. At the same time the author attempts to depict academic centres that ha…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-01 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Adam Ilciów
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
The number of smart cities is constantly growing. Mayors invest in new technologies and justify the expenses regarding the residents’ needs. Considering only this one criterion, not all expenses can be justified. Is the life of people better in smart cities? What are the solution…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2017.42-03 · ISSN: 2451-0432
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