My own little corner of the world

As I said in my previous entry , I am taking a course in Ethnology this semester. I felt a need to broaden my perspective of the notion of...

A dolmen from the Stone Age on Tjörn, Sweden I have written two entries about the popular image of the Stone Age before on this blog, b...

I had intended this 100th entry to this blog to be a response to comments I got on my entry The development of Phryne Fisher that was pu...

Yesterday I went to a writing workshop with Australian writer Gillian Polack that I might talk about more in a different blogpost. In thi...

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...