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  • Oscar Nilsson gives history its faces

    Perhaps we have stood face to face with them in a museum, and maybe it has been a little thrilling to look into the eyes of Birger Jarl, someone in the crew of the Vasa ship, or the Barum woman.… Continue reading

  • The tragedy on lake Vättern

    On the night between 19 and 20 November 1918, the steamship S/S Per Brahe steered from Jönköping towards Stockholm. In Jönköping, the ship had been loaded with iron stoves, ploughshares, sewing machines and a large number of barrels of fruit… Continue reading