Title and abstract for the linked article
📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView
🏛️ Mats Hallenberg, @mlinnarsson.bsky.social and Pär Blomkvist, 'Explaining the welfare city: publicness, citizenship and the expansion of public services in Nordic cities, c. 1850–1920'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
30.01.2026 13:50 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great. Have a look. But it’s a monograph, written jointly by the three of us.
11.09.2025 10:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Planning on going to EAUH 2026 in Barcelona? We are organising a session on:
Infrastruggles and citizenship: Urban public services, 1840–1940
Consider proposing a paper for session 56. Details at www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu
#eauh26 #urbanhistory #welfare
01.08.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New book!
Our book “Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship since 1850” is now published by Routledge Advances in Urban History.
Several chapters are open access. Have a look at: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
10.04.2024 13:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ett standardverk kan man säga.
02.02.2024 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Posten engagerar uppenbarligen. Kanske också posthistoria. Tillåter mig att puffa för denna:
urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...
02.02.2024 10:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Läser i DN att Posten vill ha fem dagar på sig för att leverera ett vanligt brev. Häpnadsväckande. I slutet av 1600-talet behövde det relativt nygrundade postverket 4 dagar på sig för att transportera ett brev mellan Stockholm och Göteborg.
www.dn.se/ekonomi/post...
01.02.2024 19:29 — 👍 47 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 2
Blueskydebut.
Coming in 2024!
Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship since 1850
www.routledge.com/Nordic-Welfa...
This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern welfare cities. #urbanhistory #svehist #welfarecity
20.12.2023 13:40 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Researcher in History at Lund University. Early modern knowledge societies, confessional conflicts and everyday lives.
Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
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Historian and urban humanities scholar at Malmö University. Exploring memory, monuments, and participatory culture in urban spaces.
Trotsig trubadur i tomrummet mellan det förflutna och framtiden. Författare, och journalist.
https://budoarstamning.substack.com/
Postdoc at the University of Bologna. Historical demographer.
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art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
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Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Professor of History, Uppsala University. Eighteenth century/Age of Revolutions | Royal image making & political culture | Sartorial practices & social order | Court society & social interaction | Digitising Gustav III's private archive | Milanista 🔴⚫️
Uppsala Historical Society, est. 1862.
President: @mikaelalm.bsky.social
All writings in the sky by @mouseemperor.bsky.social
Professor, Head of Centre for Education Policy Research, https://www.en.culture.aau.dk/research/research-groups/cfu
Aalborg University, Aalborg & Copenhagen. Historian of Education, Church and Welfare State
The Centre for Urban History (CSG) examines urbanised societies and patterns of urbanisation from the Middle Ages to the present.
Docent i ekonomisk historia vid Stockholms universitet. Forskar om militärt arbete, genusarbetsdelning, ekonomiska begränsningar av politiska rättigheter, mm.
https://www.su.se/english/profiles/fisu1563-1.183989
"Människan föds, gör motstånd och dör. Men ibland är den största döden att sluta göra motstånd." (Gorkij) Läs min blogg på http://fiaewald.se/blogg/, lyssna på SOU-podden. "En nagel i ögat på alla".
Forfatter, journalist, kokk, Oslo. Heier på motstandsbevegelsen.
