In a new article in the historical journal Historisk tidskrift, Kajsa Brilkman takes issue with an established interpretation of the Reformation in Sweden. Drawing on international scholarship and utilising methods from the history of the book, she argues that the term “the Reformation” should be reserved for the first half of 16th century, a period…

The Swedish Research Council has announced the new projects that it will fund and we are very delighted that several of them will explore dimensions of the history of knowledge. Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem (history, Lund) will study Swedish aristocratic households 1618-1710 and what opportunities they offered to servants in terms of careers,…

On 4–5 November, twenty-two historians met at beautiful Häckeberga Castle for an intense and productive workshop, “The Future of the History of Knowledge”.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, one of the major funding bodies in Sweden, has decided to award the program “Neoliberalism in the Nordics: developing an absent theme” 33,1 million SEK. The program is led by Jenny Andersson and will run from 2020 to 2025. It gathers a dozen researchers, among them David Larsson Heidenblad from the history of…

Karolina Enquist Källgren just published a new book on the works of spanish author María Zambrano, interpreting her production in the light of exile and knowledge circulation. The book, María Zambrano’s Ontology of Exile: Expressive Subjectivity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) is the first monograph in English offering a philosophical interpretation as well as historical contextualisation of…

In order to widen our networks and strengthen our ties with inspiring colleagues in different parts of the world, we have assembled an International Advisory Board.

Ragni Svensson receives the Clio Prize, a prestigious Swedish prize that is awarded to a young historian who successfully combines scholarly and communicative skills. She receives the prize for her dissertation in the field of book history from 2018 that dealt with the publishing house Bo Cavefors and its position on the Swedish book market…