Anna Nilsson Hammar writes about actors, marginality and forms of knowledge in the latest special issue from Global Intellectual History: Who Were the Ignorant? Reflections on Actors, Marginality, and Forms of Knowledge

Jonas Thorup Thomsen has received funding by the Carlsberg Foundation to go to Oxford as a postdoc researcher. Congratulations! About the project In 1770–1830, a media revolution took place in Denmark: Newspapers, libraries, and a lively book trade expanded the reading public and accelerated the circulation of knowledge, but it also segmented the population based on…

Johan Östling has published a book on the global history of the university. Kunskapens stora hus (“The Great House of Knowledge”) offers a concise and vivid account of the long history of the university. It focuses on three overarching academic models that dominated during certain epochs and exerted an influence as a kind of model for the…