History
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- Humanities-Social sciences
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In History, research is conducted in a wide chronological range, from the late Middle Ages to our time. The projects are often interdisciplinary and international. Our expertise concerns areas such as gender history, cultural history, media history, financial history, biographical research, migration, the Holocaust, democracy and political economy and culture, as well as didactic issues.
Cross-faculty activities go towards sociology, media and gender studies. History also has collaborations on didactic issues in a broad sense, including educational history. Researchers in History are also involved in various research environments both nationally and internationally. Through for example cooperation with the National Graduate School in Historical Studies, we contribute to the development of the graduate program, and we collaborate with the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Bielefeld University.
Research projects
Active projects
- Accidental Comedians? The Fool and the Logics of Early Modern Comedy
- Au naturel: Nudism and Sunbathing in the Folkhemmet (2022- )
- Historical Reasoning (2022- )
- Information Flows across the Baltic Sea: Swedish-language press as a cultural mediator, 1771-1918
- Information Highways of the 19th Century: The public sphere as newspaper infrastructure and shared content
- Intermediation and the genesis of financial markets in Sweden, 1715-1765
- International Symposium on Comparative Didactics (ISCOD)
- Multimodality and intermediality: Humanist research in a digital world (MIDWorld)
- Neutrality at stake. The Cold War and the diplomatic contacts between Sweden and Poland 1956-1974
- The political development in Germany 1933-1987 in the eyes of Swedish Social Democrats. "Law or fist" - Torsten Nilsson about Willy Brandt
- The Resource Nexus: Global Flows, Military Supplies and State Capacity in the Baltic Region, 1740-1815
- To read in Swedish? The role of minority languages in 18th century education
- Women and humanitarian aid - a historicizing perspective
Completed projects
- Anna Bugge Wicksell and the engagement for peace and human rights in the early 20th century
- Heteronormative Rulership: Politics, Sexuality and Propaganda in Late Medieval Europe (2011-2017)
- Kings in Waiting: The Problem of the Spare in Sweden, c. 1550-1630
- My Historical Backpack: Students' Historical Narratives (2016-2023)
- The political and trade union cooperation and the social democratic hegemony in the Swedish labour movement
- To live what you preach: marriage criticism and common-law marriage. The example of Anna and Knut Wicksell
- War on Corsets: Fashion Slavery and Women's Struggle in Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2016-2024)
- Youth mental health problems in Swedish media and medical journals ca 1970-1990
Nya publikationer/Latest publications
Dahl, I. A. (2024). Epistemiskt våld – vad är det?. Texter om våld (1), 69-79.
Engren, J. (2024). ”Nu känns det lite verkligare när man har träffat en som varit med om det”. Svenska elevers förståelser av en Förintelseöverlevandes berättelse. Nordidactica, 14(1).
Dahl, I. A. (2023). A History (Re)Interpretation in the Name of Truth: Memory Culture and Cultural Policy in Poland after 1989. In: Helder Ferreira do Vale, Democracy - Paradoxes, Changes and New Perspectives Across the Globe (pp. 29-42) IntechOpen.
Lundell, P. (ed.) , Salmi, H. (ed.) , Edoff, E. (ed.) , Marjanen, J. (ed.) , Paju, P. (ed.) & Rantala, H. (ed.) (2023). Information flows across the Baltic Sea: Towards a computational approach to media history. Lund: Föreningen Mediehistoriskt arkiv (Mediehistorisk arkiv 56).
Jarlbrink, J. , Lundell, P. & Snickars, P. (2023). From Big Bang to Big Data: A History of the Media. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Andersson, G. & Engren, J. (2022). Narration, life and meaning in history and fiction. Scandinavian Journal of History, 47 (1), 62-82.
Paju, P. , Edoff, E. , Lundell, P. , Marjanen, J. , Rantala, H. , Salmi, H. & Vesanto, A. (2022). Tidningstexter över Östersjön: En databas av delat innehåll mellan Finland och Sverige. Historisk Tidskrift för Finland, 107 (2), 192-211.
Lundell, P. (2022). Medium. I: Jonas Hansson; Kristiina Savin, Svenska begreppshistorier: Från antropocen till åsiktskorridor (ss. 345-358). Stockholm: Fri tanke.
Dahl, I. A. (2022). From victim to survivor of Nazi persecution. Gendering the collection of the Polish Research Institute (PIŹ) in Lund. Der Archivar : Mitteilungsblatt für deutsches Archivwesen, 75 (12), 146-150.
Winton, P. (2022). Servants of liquidation: The clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719-1730. Business History