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.

Are you interested in breaking historical ciphers? Check out our project aiming at the automatic analysis and decipherment of historical secret writings.

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 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 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.

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.

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.