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We have had some pretty intensive political turbulence in the last couple of days over here in Sweden. I am not even going to try to expla...

Eva Ekeblad was the daughter of count Magnus Julius de la Gardie and his wife Hedvig Catharina Lilje and born on 10 July 1724. In 1741,...

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born on this day (14 July) into a wealthy family in Washington New Hall in County Durham, England in ...

The Olympics were held in Stockholm in 1912 and for the first time, women were allowed to compete in swimming and diving. Star of the game...

Bort ifrån en stad nå'nstans i Sverige flyr en kvinna.   Hon har flytt så många gånger förr   Varje gång är det svårt Varje gå...

Since I blogged about the winter solstice in December , I thought I should talk a little about the summer solstice today. Not least since ...

The Sture costumes I showed you this photo already in my entry about the Sture murders , but they are just so awsome that they deserve t...

The Sture costumes in the cathedral museum in Uppsala. From left: Svante, Nils and Erik Allow me to introduce to you Swedish earl, Lord...

Poster of Göteborgs födelse During my stay in Göteborg recently, I had time to visit Göteborgs stadsmuseum's (Gothenburg City Museu...

About a week ago the twitter account Svensk Historia tweeted about the Nordic king Erik of Pomerania . I retweeted it saying it always make...

Han kom som ett yrväder en aprilafton och hade ett Höganäskrus i en svångrem om halsen . (He arrived like a whirlwind an evening in April...

Today is the birthday of Elsa Andersson , the first Swedish aviatrix, so I thought I should talk about her in my series about Historical W...

Today is the one year anniversary of this blog, my digital baby. And in what better way can I celebrate than write a post about two of my ...