Nation building

Read a potted history of Iceland from the Vikings to today.

An international discussion on decolonisation followed in the aftermath of the Second World War in the mid-1940s. The newly formed United Nations…

On 4th August 1916, the American government issued a declaration to the Danish government that it would not raise objections if Denmark extended its…

Go to Flensborg, Germany, in 1920 and see firsthand what it was like during the plebiscite on 14th March. Would Flensborg and central Schleswig remain…

Go with Klaus Tolstrup Petersen, historian and director of the Schleswig Collection (Danish Central Library for South Schleswig), back to 1920 when a…

Denmark lost a third of its territory and 40% of its population in the Second Schleswig War in 1864 to Prussia and Austria. Seen as both a national…

Social democratic parties have had a significant influence on the Nordic countries during the twentieth century, especially in Sweden. As centre-left…

National museums in the Nordics retain an important role in the creation and maintenance of a particular view of a country, its people and often its…

Folkhem, literally meaning ‘people’s home’, is a Swedish term for what is otherwise designated as the Swedish welfare state or the Swedish model. It…

There has been much more official involvement with the Nordic languages than with English. That is true even of the well-established Danish, Icelandic…