The GISta Hungarorum database and digital atlas supplemented with data from settlement-level surveys and population census from the 1720s, 1750s (Transylvania) and 1780s was completed under the leadership of the Institute of History of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities.

Due to high adult mortality and the custom of remarriage, stepfamilies were a common phenomenon in pre-industrial Europe. Focusing on East Central Europe, a neglected area of Western historiography, this book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life between East Central Europe and Northwestern Europe.

’High Coverage Mitogenomes and Y-Chromosomal Typing Reveal Ancient Lineages in the Modern-Day Székely Population in Romania’, a new study by researchers from the Institute of Archaeogenomics, was published in the journal Genes (MDPI) in early January.

In addition to an upcoming printed edition, researchers of the Institute of History of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (BTK TTI) are also making the correspondence of István Széchenyi publicly available in an online database. This modern critical edition, which strives for completeness, makes invaluable source material easily accessible to historians and others interested in the topic.