Nation building

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…