Dalia Leinarte is Professor of Family History at Vilnius University, Lithuania. She is also a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK, and an expert of the UN CEDAW Committee. She is the author of Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970 (2010).Jan Kok is Professor of Social, Economic and Demographic History at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

• Introduction – Cohabitation in Europe: a revenge of history? 1. Cohabitation from illegal to institutionalized practice: the case of Norway 1972–2010 2. Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries 3. ‘As if she was my own child’: cohabitation, community, and the English criminal courts, 1855–1900 4. Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania 5. The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach 6. Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: recent trends, persistence of the past, and potential future pathways

Dalia Leinarte is Professor of Family History at Vilnius University, Lithuania. She is also a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK, and an expert of the UN CEDAW Committee. She is the author of Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970 (2010).Jan Kok is Professor of Social, Economic and Demographic History at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

• Introduction – Cohabitation in Europe: a revenge of history? 1. Cohabitation from illegal to institutionalized practice: the case of Norway 1972–2010 2. Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries 3. ‘As if she was my own child’: cohabitation, community, and the English criminal courts, 1855–1900 4. Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania 5. The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach 6. Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: recent trends, persistence of the past, and potential future pathways

Dalia Leinarte is Professor of Family History at Vilnius University, Lithuania. She is also a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK, and an expert of the UN CEDAW Committee. She is the author of Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970 (2010).Jan Kok is Professor of Social, Economic and Demographic History at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

• Introduction – Cohabitation in Europe: a revenge of history? 1. Cohabitation from illegal to institutionalized practice: the case of Norway 1972–2010 2. Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries 3. ‘As if she was my own child’: cohabitation, community, and the English criminal courts, 1855–1900 4. Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania 5. The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach 6. Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: recent trends, persistence of the past, and potential future pathways