History
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- Humanities-Social sciences
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In History, research is conducted in a wide chronological range, from the late Middle Ages to our time. The projects are often interdisciplinary and international. Our expertise concerns areas such as gender history, cultural history, media history, financial history, biographical research, migration, the Holocaust, democracy and political economy and culture, as well as didactic issues.
Cross-faculty activities go towards sociology, media and gender studies. History also has collaborations on didactic issues in a broad sense, including educational history. Researchers in History are also involved in various research environments both nationally and internationally. Through for example cooperation with the National Graduate School in Historical Studies, we contribute to the development of the graduate program, and we collaborate with the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Bielefeld University.
Research projects
Active projects
- Accidental Comedians? The Fool and the Logics of Early Modern Comedy
- Heteronormative Rulership: Politics, Sexuality and Propaganda in Late Medieval Europe
- Information Flows across the Baltic Sea: Swedish-language press as a cultural mediator, 1771-1918
- Information Highways of the 19th Century: The public sphere as newspaper infrastructure and shared content
- Intermediation and the genesis of financial markets in Sweden, 1715-1765
- International Symposium on Comparative Didactics (ISCOD)
- Kings in Waiting: The Problem of the Spare in Sweden, c. 1550-1630
- Multimodality and intermediality: Humanist research in a digital world (MIDWorld)
- My historical backpack
- Neutrality at stake. The Cold War and the diplomatic contacts between Sweden and Poland 1956-1974
- The political development in Germany 1933-1987 in the eyes of Swedish Social Democrats. "Law or fist" - Torsten Nilsson about Willy Brandt
- The Resource Nexus: Global Flows, Military Supplies and State Capacity in the Baltic Region, 1740-1815
- To read in Swedish? The role of minority languages in 18th century education
- Women and humanitarian aid - a historicizing perspective
Completed projects
- Anna Bugge Wicksell and the engagement for peace and human rights in the early 20th century
- The political and trade union cooperation and the social democratic hegemony in the Swedish labour movement
- To live what you preach: marriage criticism and common-law marriage. The example of Anna and Knut Wicksell
- Youth mental health problems in Swedish media and medical journals ca 1970-1990
Latest Publications
Dahl, I. A. (2022). From victim to survivor of Nazi persecution. Gendering the collection of the Polish Research Institute (PIŹ) in Lund. Der Archivar : Mitteilungsblatt für deutsches Archivwesen, 75 (12), 146-150.
Winton, P. (2022). Servants of liquidation: The clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719-1730. Business History
Andersson, P. K. (2021). Äktenskapet och ångvelocipeden: Sveriges förste bilkonstruktör och den tekniska manlighetens bräcklighet. Personhistorisk Tidskrift (1).
Andersson, P. K. (2021). Drontmannen. Ellerströms förlag.
Andersson, P. K. (2021). Var på huvudet ska hatten sitta?: Subtila signaler inom hattbruk kring sekelskiftet 1900. I: Emma Severinsson, Philip Warkander, Modevetenskap: Nya perspektiv på mode, stil och estetik (ss. 66-85). Stockholm: Appell förlag.
Dahl, I. A. (2021). Witnessing the Holocaust: Jewish Experiences and the Collection of the Polish Source Institute in Lund. I: Johannes Heuman, Pontus Rudberg, Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden: Archives, Testimonies and Reflections (ss. 67-91). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.