19th Century

  • Elisabeth Stride – the Swedish victim of Jack the Ripper

    When Elisabeth Gustavsdotter was born on November 27, 1843, in Torslanda, it is highly unlikely that anyone would have looked at the little child and thought that she would become a person whose fate would be debated over a hundred… Continue reading

    Elisabeth Stride – the Swedish victim of Jack the Ripper
  • Colonel Gustafsson

    Today, March 13, it is 214 years since Gustav IV Adolf was arrested at Stockholm Palace and deposed. Gustav Adolf was born on 1 November 1778 as the son of Gustav III and Sofia Magdalena of Denmark. Gustav III is… Continue reading