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In 1920s Sweden the concept of Folkhemmet was born and described as a concept and an idea of the modern Swedish well-fare state where the nation was considered a family. Through governmental founding, a new modern Sweden was planned. The first suburbs was introduced in 1930 and the 1950s the next project was finished, the so-called ABC-staden (ABC-town in English). One of the suburbs belonging to the ABC-town project was Rågsved, a place which is associated with the Swedish punk movement and the cultural association of Oasen. In 1965 the next building project was introduced, now called Miljonprogrammet. Miljonprogrammet became criticized for being a constant working place and isolating citizens in the suburbs, leading to segregation. A furthermore consequence of the segregation was when working-class families got a better economy and left the traditional apartment housing for newly produced town halls it opened for low-income families to move in. Meanwhile, the media framing of the suburb also began to change. The narrative of the suburb had previously been a hope for a bright better future for families to live in, but it later changed to be a place for criminality, under-employment, alcoholism, and substance abuse. Teenagers and young adults stuck at the bottom of the economic chain were affected worst by this change. This also occurred with the oil crisis in the late 1970s, making the end of the Swedish record years. The Swedish punk movement was introduced in 1976 inspired by the British and American punk scene. The movement established itself in the suburbs among young adults who did not feel like they were heard. The movement was, in difference to previous youth cultures, political which affected the message of the movement. In the capital of Stockholm, punk rockers found themselves wanting something more, a place outside the centre of the city where they all could have a place to be. This project later resulted in the cultural association of Oasen in Rågsved. In 1979 after the city council of Vantör decided to throw out the association they answered by occupying the locale. They demanded a place to feel at home in the suburb they lived in. This thesis is discussing the modern Swedish suburb using the Swedish punk movement as a historic example. The thesis’s theoretical framework focuses on intersectionality, place, space, and journalistic framing. 

AbstractThousands of Roma were killed in Ukraine by the Nazis and auxiliary police on the spot. There are more than 50,000 Roma in today’s Ukraine, represented by second and third generation decendants of the genocide survivors. The discussion on Roma identity cannot be isolated from the memory of the genocide, which makes the struggle over the past a reflexive landmark that mobilizes the Roma movement. About twenty Roma genocide memorials have been erected in Ukraine during last decade, and in 2016 the national memorial of the Roma genocide was opened in Babi Yar. However, scholars do not have a clear picture of memory narratives and memory practices of the Roma genocide in Ukraine. A comprehensive analysis of the contemporary situation is not possible without an examination of the history and memory of the Roma genocide before 1991.

Uppsatsens övergripande syfte är att undersöka samarbetet mellan museipedagoger som arbetar på historiskt inriktade muséer och historielärare samt det webbaserade material som muséerna tillhandahåller för skolor och hur detta samarbete kan utvecklas och förbättras. Studien har också ett mer teoretiskt syfte, nämligen att undersöka hur elevernas lärande och historiemedvetande kan utvecklas med hjälp av museibesöken. Uppsatsens teoretiska utgångspunkter består av begreppen lärande och historiemedvetande, centrala aspekter inom både skolan och muséet. Studien är kvalitativ och är baserad på semistrukturerade intervjuer med lärare och museipedagoger samt muséernas webbaserade material. Empirin tolkas med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys. När det gäller samarbetet mellan museipedagoger och historielärare visar resultaten i denna uppsats att sex av sju intervjuade lärare upplever att det inte finns något samarbete med museipedagoger, medan majoriteten av museipedagogerna och det webbaserade materialet visar det motsatta. Undersökningen visar också att museipedagoger följer läroplanen och att lärarna är överens om att museibesök utgör ett bra komplement till klassrumsundervisning. Upplevda nackdelar från lärarna är bland annat att eleverna har svårt att se muséer som en historisk källa och att de ser museibesöket som ett informellt jippo. Slutsatsen är att det finns flera sätt att utveckla och förbättra samarbetet mellan museipedagoger och lärare. Efter museibesöket kan museipedagoger till exempel samarbeta med lärarna över en längre period för att kunna utvärdera hur besöket påverkat elevernas lärande och historiemedvetande. En ytterligare möjlighet är förbättrad kommunikation, både med avseende på vad historiemedvetande egentligen innebär och att muséerna kan kontakta skolorna snarare än tvärtom. Samtidigt finns det också saker som förhindrar samarbetet mellan museipedagoger och lärarna, exempelvis ekonomiska faktorer och svårigheten att planera och organisera museibesök. En grund för bättre samarbete är alltså utökad flexibilitet, ekonomiska förutsättningar och god vilja från skolans sida.

Nederländsk titel: Hanno Brand en Joop W. Koopmans (reds.), Willem Lodewijk: stadhouder en strateeg (1560-1620-2020); Guido von Büren, Ralf-Peter Fuchs en Georg Mölich (reds.), Herrschaft, Hof und Humanismus. Wilhelm V. von Jülich-Kleve-Berg und seine Zeit

There is a considerable research gap in both maritime and military history concerning the naval use of bowmen. For over three millennia—spanning from the ancient Egyptians until around the year AD 1600—archery was a key component in maritime combat. This essay highlights the importance, flexibility, and impact of naval archery with special attention given to European waters in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period.

This article presents how the historical experience of Sweden is depicted in six biographies about the lives of Polish-Jewish refugees who migrated to Sweden from Poland in 1967–1972 due to the antisemitic campaign. It is an early output of the dissertation project Vi, de fördrivna [We, the Expelled], for which the historical experiences of this migrant group are being collected and analyzed. The depiction of Sweden in the biographies is viewed from the perspective of historical orientation. Generally, the biographies give a positive picture of Sweden. The Sweden illustrated is contrasted with a repressive depiction of Poland during the antisemitic campaign. Sweden at the time of arrival is also contrasted with Sweden in later years, which might be described as Sweden in decline.

In Ukraine, commemorations of the centennial of the First World War were sporadic and mainly had a grassroots character. There were no large-scale state-organized events and regional authorities were not interested in or had no resources for implementing the state’s recommendation to organize commemorations. The main remembrance of the First World War was undertaken by academic historians. Citation: Yurchuk, Yuliya: Centenary (Ukraine) , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2020-03-10.

Carl Lindhagen was one of Sweden’s most well-known politicians at the beginning ofthe 20th century. He entered parliament as a Liberal in 1897 but joined the Social Democrats in 1909. In 1917 he became a key figure in forming the Left Socialist party,which became the Swedish Communist Party in 1921 – although it expelled him in that moment. He returned to the Social Democrats in 1923. During those years, Sweden gradually moved towards universal suffrage, including most men in 1909 and women in 1921. As an MP, Lindhagen was a central actor in debates concerning democracy, combining the roles of the visionary political thinker and the hands-on political practitioner, and doing so in ways that would spark both enthusiasm and controversy among his contemporaries. This dissertation examines how Lindhagen interpreted the transformation of politics 1896–1923, how he envisioned a future of “true” democracy and the steps he took to realize his ideals. In his perspective, the constitutional reforms of the 1910s and the 1920s only achieved “formal” democracy. From the early 1910s he preferred to label himself as a ”humanist”, seeing Liberalism and Socialism as temporary forces, contributing elements to a historical process approaching the universal values of “humanism”. In 1919 he also created a party transcending organization for “humanist politics”, gathering like-minded people among Left Socialists, Social Democrats, and Liberal leftists.This study concentrates on Lindhagen’s most active and influential years, finding its central sources in texts which he wrote, modified, used and reused, for many purposes within the parliament and in his party organizations, as well as in addressing a general public. Three chronological parts follow Lindhagen through his political affiliations, 1896–1909,1909–1917, and 1917–1923. The study shows a remarkable amount of continuity in Lindhagen’s attitudes and positions, although he elaborated them, as well as the language he used to express them, due to new experiences, situations, and political environments. This makes him a tellingly complex case in the historiography of Liberalism, Social Democracy, and Communism in Sweden. Adding to this telling complexity is also the way in which Lindhagen gradually focused more and more on political parties as a central political problem, stressing that a condition for “true democracy” was practical measures of democracy at alllevels in the political process, especially within the political parties which took theirmodern form during the era studied in the dissertation.

This study examined the phenomena of dark tourism, aiming to identify the primary factors motivating travellers to visit former concentration and/or extermination camps. Additionally, it explores the ethical aspects associated with the historical significance of the sites and the victims. The target group consisted of individuals who had visited a concentration camp, excluding those who had personal relations to the site or had visited as part of a mandatory school trip. To collect the empirical data for the study, qualitative methods were employed, including netnography and semi-structured interviews. The online platforms that were used are as follows. YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Tripadvisor, Familjeliv, Fodors, Skalman, and Maria's Memoarer, along with six respondents from the interviews. The results point to several factors driving the motivation to visit a concentration camp, showing that pleasure, adventure, and an interest in death are not the driving factors for the visit. Furthermore, the study revealed that visits to these sites are complex, but by maintaining to the ethical guidelines set by the museums/camps. Concentration and extermination camps can contribute to preserving the memory of its victims and the history behind the destination.  Studien undersökte fenomenet mörk turism med syftet att se de primära faktorerna som motiverade resenärer att resa till koncentrations- och/eller förintelseläger. Dessutom att undersöka de etiska aspekter som kan tillkomma med tanke på platsens historia och de människor som berörs. Målgruppen för studien var resenärer som besökt ett koncentrationsläger och där det inte varit relationer eller skolresa som student inblandat. För att samla in empiri till studien användes det kvalitativa metoder, där dessa har varit netnografi och semistrukturerade intervjuer. De digitala plattformarna för den netnografiska undersökningen var Youtube, Reddit, Tiktok, Tripadvisor, Familjeliv, Fodors, Skalman och Marias memoarer. Dessutom genomfördes det intervjuer med sex respondenter. Resultaten indikerade på att det finns flertalet olika faktorer för drivkraften till att besöka ett koncentrationsläger. Det framkom att nöje, äventyr och intresse för döden inte var de främsta motivationerna till besöket. Vidare visar studien att besök på dessa platser är komplexa, men samtidigt med att upprätthålla etiska riktlinjer kan koncentrations- och förintelseläger bidra med att bevara minnet av historien och offren.