Heiko Droste
Contact
Name and title: Heiko Droste
Phone: +468163394
Workplace: Department of History Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room D 884Universitetsvägen 10 D, plan 9
Postal address Historiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
I studied history, library science and political science at the University of Cologne. I defended my thesis in history in 1994 at the University of Hamburg. The thesis was about the late medieval and early modern urban historiography of the city of Lüneburg. I am fascinated by the question of what we historians do when we write history.
In 1995, I moved to Sweden, until 1998, in order to research Sweden's diplomats in the 17th century. This second book was approved in 2003 by the University of Kiel as a habilitation. Since then I have been an associate professor in medieval and modern history.
In 2007 I returned to Sweden and have since researched various aspects of early modern news culture in the Baltic Sea region. This concerns printed and handwritten newspapers, correspondence, mail, diplomacy, cultural transfer and the news market of the time. This interest ended in 2018 with a book about the baroque news market, in German and in 2021 in English.
In recent years I have done a lot of research on nostalgia and Swedish cities in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Urban history
- Historiography
- Media history
- Baltic Sea area, politics and cultures
- Nostalgia
I am a member of the board of EAUH (European Association for Urban History),
https://www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/
as well as Sweden's representative in the ICHT (International Commission for the history of Towns):
https://www.historiaurbium.org/
I am member of the Network for Urban historians of the North:
https://urbanhnorth.com
and head of the Institute or Urban history at Stockholm university:
https://skhi.se
Last but not least, I do have a blog for urban history of Sweden, in Swedish:
https://heikodroste.com
Edited books
Urban life in Nordic Countries, ed. Heiko Droste (London: Routledge, 2023).
Städer & kommuner – ett institut firar hundra år!, ed. by Heiko Droste, Stockholm 2019.
The Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520. Context and commemoration. Eds. Heiko Droste & Kurt Villads Jensen (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025).
Articles
“Three types of welfare cities. The case of Sweden”, in: Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship since 1850, eds. Magnus Linnarsson & Mats Hallenberg (New York: Routledge, 2024), pp. 187–208.
”Staden mellan ambition och verklighet”, Nordbor, ed. by Anna Arfvidsson Womack, Fredrik Svanberg & Ulrika Torell (Stockholm/Göteborg: Makadam, 2024), pp. 88–93; in English translation: Nordic life: 500 years of cultural history, ed. by Anna Arfvidsson Womack, Fredrik Svanberg & Ulrika Torell (Stockholm/Göteborg: Makadam, 2025), s. 88-94.
“Svenska städer under tidigmodern tid”, in: Knut Dørum (ed.), Hvem styrte byarne? Nordisk byhistorie 1500–1800, Agder, Capellen Damm Akademisk, 2022, pp. 53–84. Open access.
https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog/book/149.
”Det ständigt nya arvet. Om nyttan av historiska minnen i Stockholm and Lüneburg“, in: Pål Brunnström and Ragnhild Claesson (eds.), Creating the City. Identity, Memory and Participation. Conference proceedings, Malmö university 2019, pp. 98–111. ISBN: 978–91–87997–13–6.
https://mau.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1409829/FULLTEXT01.pdf
“Preface”, in: Urban life in Nordic Countries, ed. Heiko Droste (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. xvii–xxvii.
”Blekinges städer under svensktiden”, in: Blekinges historia, ed. by Peter Carelli, Anders Häggström, Lars Malmgren, Lynn Åkesson, (Karlskrona: Blekinge Museum, 2024), pp. 365–387.