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• A Conservative Social Movement?

  Research project

  Did the popular movements of the 20th century also cause counter movements and protests? That is the focus of this research project.

  

• Adaptations to climate change in the northern Baltic region ca 1500–1900

  Research project

  How have people and societies historically adapted to climate change? This project investigates how people in the early modern era were affected by, and adapted to, climate variation in the northern Baltic region.

  

• Alternative Paths to the Welfare City: Public Services, Inclusion and the Common Good

  Research project

  During the period of 1870–1920, Nordic cities took ever greater responsibility for services that were perceived vital for economic development and the citizens’ wellbeing. What discussions and motivations preceded this development? How did the cities’ governing bodies set out to expand the scope of public services?

  

• Crowdfunding the realm – fundraising, state building and community formation in Sweden, ca 1650–1860

  Research project

  Who is responsible for taking care of vulnerable people? And what are the limits to this responsibility? These questions were constantly present for people in early modern Sweden as the collection bag was passed round the congregation during Sunday service.

  

• Danish and Swedish provincial laws from the 13th century in a comparative perspective

  Research project

  From the 12th to the 14th centuries, a considerable number of provincial laws were codified in the Nordic countries. These constitute a very rich source material, which in many ways is unique for the time period, and can give us valuable knowledge about the legal system, the society at large, and ideology in the Middle Ages.

  

• Disentangling socio-political and climatic factors for famines in early modern Europe

  Research project

  What made societies more or less vulnerable to food insecurity and famine in northern Europe (c. 1500–1800)? What part did climatic factors and socio-political factors play, respectively? How did these factors interact? This project combines sources and methods from historical scholarship and palaeoclimatology to examine these questions.

  

• Encountering Diplomacy in Early Modern Southeast Asia: Actors, Practices, Translation

  Research project

  Encountering diplomacy in early modern Southeast Asia is a study in global history. It explores how diplomatic practices and foreign relations were shaped in maritime Southeast Asia's pluralistic, multi-centric, open geography during the 17th and 18th centuries. In this period, exchange between local polities and aspiring European colonial powers flourished.

  

• Grain at any price: Geographical patterns of food security in pre-industrial Europe

  Research project

  Grain was a vital product in pre-industrial Europe and its price variations are an indicator of food availability and subsistence stress. This 3-year project aims to assess, quantify, and explain differences in food security across Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries.

  

• In pursuit of global knowledge: Scandinavian ocean travelers 1650-1810

  Research project

  Which foreign languages were spoken among 18th century Scandinavian sailors? How would a captain manage politics whilst at sea? What happens if we consider global circulation of knowledge "from below"? These are a few questions that the "Prize Papers", documents from over 3500 Scandinavian ships seized by Great Britain between 1650 and 1810, can help answer.

  

• Intoxicating Spaces,The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850

  Research project

  From the 17th century, emerging imperial and trading networks of people, knowledge, and goods from across the world introduced Europeans to a many ‘new intoxicants’: cocoa, coffee, opium, sugar, tea, and tobacco. In a ‘psychoactive revolution’, these substances transformed dietary and social habits, and became mainstays of modern global economies.

• NG| Investigating multi-centennial climate variability using the Earth System Model

  Research project

  A crucial goal in climate research is to better understand the mechanisms of observed climate variability and change to assess the relative roles of internal variability and external forcing variations in explaining observed changes in the climate system.

  

• Nourishing the body politic: eating, the edible, and authority in Sweden, 1650−1750

  Research project

  The research project is funded by the Swedish Research Council and aims to discover how food decisions and nourishing substances shaped individual bodies and the body politic in early modern Sweden. The project manager is Karin Sennefelt, Professor of History, Stockholm University.

• Objectivity, experiments, empirical observations and debating the shape of Earth, ca 1849–1890

  Research project

  When the shape of the Earth became a topic of debate in Victorian Britain, both sides claimed that their viewpoint was the more objective one. This project studies the debate and how ideals like objectivity and empiricism were used by the debaters.

  

• Philippine History Forum

  Research project

  The Philippine History Forum is an educational project for students at all levels, aiming to promote dialogue between universities in the Nordic region and the Philippines through education and knowledge exchange.

  

• Pleasurescapes. Port cities’ transnational forces of integration

  Research project

  The project explores the ways in which public places of pleasure in European port cities have unfolded social of forces of integration in the past and thereby fostered traits of urbanity. Public places of entertainment are studied as "pleasurescapes" - fluid in size and character over tiume and space.

  

• Private interests versus the common good. Swedish political conflicts on organizing public services

  Research project

  The common good is a recurring subject for political discussions throughout history as well as in present time. What were these discussions? Who has argued for and who has argued against public management of certain services? What arguments were used? This project investigated political conflict on services of public interest over four centuries.

  

• Sacred Speech and Political Power: The Role of Preaching at the Councils of Constance and Basel

  Research project

  The reform councils of the 15th century changed European history – yet the sermons held during them are greatly understudied. This project will make sources from the councils of Constance (1414-1418) and Basel (1431–1449) available as digital editions and explore their contents, also in comparison.

  

• Shifting Regimes: Representation, administrative reform and institutional change in early modern Swe

  Research project

  Modern Sweden is often referred to as a model democracy with a long parliamentary tradition. However, Early Modern Sweden saw wildly shifting politics: from aristocratic rule to royal absolutism and then a parliamentary regime. This project seeks to explain how Sweden eventually managed to develop effective administrative and political institutions.

  

• The history of Swedish children's and youth sports

  Research project

  Young people played an important role in the growing sports movement in late 19th century Sweden. During the post-war period, sport became by far the most popular association activity for young children. This project examines attitudes towards children within sports in Sweden, and how these attitudes have developed and changed.

  

• The Homes the City Built (Stadens kåkar)

  Research project

  A research project at the Institute of Urban History, Stockholm University, focusing on local, municipal welfare practices during the period roughly from 1840 to 1950. Funded by the Olle Engkvist Foundation.