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2015 - Transformations in Viking Age animal ornamentation - Michael Neiss - Uppsala University, Sweden
Viking Age images rarely appear as independent monuments. Most often, they are decorations on everyday objects. This is why animal ornaments have been handled most...
2015 - Retro-Gustavian - shaping the past for the future - Hedvig Mårdh - Uppsala University, Sweden
In various ways, the reuse of the Gustavian has played an important role in the persistent effort to create a specific...
2015 - East Indian book project: "Seafarers and supercargoes" - LarsOlof Lööf - The National Archives
Register of all officers of the Swedish East India Company who sailed between 1731 and 1805, with life history and family relations. The result is...
2015 - Fire station inventories 2012-2015 - Helena Lundgren
Fire stations are an important part of the Swedish industrial heritage. Before 2012, no inventories of this category of buildings had been...
2015 - Getting close to great men: portrait research and portrait collecting - Charlotta Krispinsson - Stockholm University
The thesis deals with how portraits from the early modern period were inventoried, collected and researched in Swedish art history during the period 1880-1950. In addition ...
2015 - The Swedish History Days 2016 - Dag Klackenberg - The Swedish History Days
Interest in history is strong and growing. The need for a deeper awareness of history is often highlighted, not least in debates about school...
2015 - Gunnebo back to the 18th century, stage 3, reconstruction of lid urns - Krister Karlsson - Mölndal City/Gunnebo Castle
During the years 2013-2018, the orangery building, which was designed for the Hall family by city architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg, but which fell into disrepair after...
2015 - Digitization of the Ravensbrück Archive at Lund University Library - Håkan Håkansson - Lund University
In 1945, more than 20,000 liberated prisoners from German concentration camps arrived in Sweden on the so-called white buses. Their experiences during...
2015 - The medieval wandering village - social farm hierarchies in Halland 1000-1300 - Anders Håkansson - Lund University
The thesis studies a particularly dynamic and transformative period in Scandinavian history. During the early Middle Ages, major social changes took place...
2015 - Peder Herzog - Jewish immigrant, successful entrepreneur - Alexander Husebye - Center for Business History
The Center for Business History is conducting a combined archival and book research project to shed light on Peder Herzog (1838-1920) as an entrepreneur and the...
2015 - Collections and History of the Röhsska Museum - Ritwa Herjulfsdotter - Röhsska museet
The aim of the research project is to investigate and analyze the Röhsska Museum's background and collections from a cultural analytical perspective. The focus is on the intersection...
2015 - Meaning making for autism, ADHD, OCD and Tourette Syndrome - Jenny Hartman - Lund University
This research project looks at three different types of written communication that address neuropsychiatric disabilities in different ways...
