The Swedish History Days is a non-profit organization with the purpose of creating annual opportunities for contacts between representatives of historical research, practitioners in the museum world and archive institutions, history teachers and a public interested in history. The purpose of the association is to, in collaboration with member organizations and other co-organizers, be responsible for the program activities within the framework of the history days and develop these into an annual opportunity for contacts and thus increase the historical knowledge of as many groups in society as possible. The ambition is therefore to present historical subjects and historical research in a way that is at a popular science level but also accessible to participants without specialist training.

For many history teachers, the History Days have become the main, even the only, opportunity for continuing education, especially in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for historians, this forum provides a unique and widely appreciated opportunity to make new research results available. Several of the lectures are published in printed form.