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I am a research librarian at the Library of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm, with a concurrent role as Senior Academic Librarian at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the northernmost university in the world. My work centers on tracing the provenance of rare books, historical cartography, and library history.
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Det nordnorska landskapet var länge föremål för omfattande mytbildning och fascination, vilket tog sig uttryck i mer eller mindre fantasifyllda skildringar i både text och bild. På de första tryckta kartorna över Skandinavien är Nordnorge över huvud taget inte igenkännbart. På ett tidigt stadium blev dock Vardøhus, följt av Finnmark, givna företeel...
Vid Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek på Storgatan 43 i Stockholm finns många böcker om medeltida arkitektur och konst, däribland en bok från 1853 om restaureringen av katedralen Notre-Dame som då ägde rum, av franska arkitekterna Jean-Baptiste Lassus och Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.
Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the streng...
I det sena 1800-talets Sverige var såväl produktionen som förmedlingen av böcker koncentrerad till större tätorter, samtidigt som en överväldigande majoritet av invånarna bodde på landsbygden. Tillgången till skön litteratur var särskilt ojämnt fördelad. Den moderna samtidslitteraturen var främst en vara för städernas boklådor och förblev därmed ut...
This article centres around a volume of sermons and its three documented owners. The book first belonged to a vicar, then to a nobleman, and finally to a farmhand. The three owners all left marks on the book, and the farmhand wrote a remarkable passage on its last page, detailing his reading of the book. The three owners’ possession of the book spa...
This paper explores the historiography of History of Reading in a Nordic context. The populations of the Nordic countries were probably the first in the world to ascend to mass literacy, and widespread basic reading ability was achieved by the early 1700s. The Nordic countries have always been dependent on the import of literature, both in translat...
This study focuses on the reader and the book market in Sweden during the dynamic era of the Modern Breakthrough, with emphasis on c. 1879–90. It is a comparative study of three principally different kinds of literary institutions, which together constitute something of the backbone of the contemporary Swedish book market: Gumpert’s bookshop in Got...
How did Swedish readers in the late nineteenth century acquire reading materials, and what books were the most popular? And how did their reading preferences change over time?
A few unique, recently discovered sources, consisting of sales’ and borrowers’ ledgers from three different institutions – a parish library, a commercial lending library and...
The believe in heroes has existed a very long time, and in almost all cultures over the world. Heroes, just like religion in many cases, was something to which you could address your hopes and wishes, in times of hardship and difficulty. Throughout history, the notion of the hero has often been used as a unifying force in the creation of national i...
[Student paper 2010] Upphovsrättsliga frågor debatteras ständigt i dagens samhälle. Många följer till exempel rättegångarna mot männen bakom ”The Pirate bay”, en trackerhemsida med miljontals användare och filer som är fritt tillgängliga för nedladdning. I den senaste domen (26 november 2010) dömdes de åtalade till flera månaders fängelse samt ålad...