More history

As part of my historic blog posts, I’m going to post a little about a town/city or other area here in Sweden. Obviously, I’ll focus on the history of the place, but I might also go into some other facts.

Local history

On Monday I went to hear a man talk about his research about a match industry. That’s right, a place where they made matches. It was quite interesting, but in a way, sad too. So many people, mainly women and children, had to work for minimum wages and get sick from the phosphorus the matches

Simple meme

Here’s a simple Meme…answer the following questions: 1. What Book Are You Reading Now? 2. Why did you choose it? 3. What’s the best thing about it? 4. What’s the worst thing about it? Here are my answers: 1. History of Sweden, part 2 2. I’m very interested in history and when a new series

Book meme

Here’s a simple Meme…answer the following questions: 1. What Book Are You Reading Now? 2. Why did you choose it? 3. What’s the best thing about it? 4. What’s the worst thing about it? Here are my answers: 1. History of Sweden, part 2 2. I’m very interested in history and when a new series

Simple meme

Here’s a simple Meme…answer the following questions: 1. What Book Are You Reading Now? 2. Why did you choose it? 3. What’s the best thing about it? 4. What’s the worst thing about it? Here are my answers: 1. History of Sweden, part 22. I’m very interested in history and when a new series of

Book review

A review of a book about the Roman Empire – or rather where the Roman Empire ended (geographically). Book review

About the thriller writer Eric Ambler

Since I’ve read The Mask of Dimitrios I found this interesting. Apparently, it wasn’t his best book at all. Now I need to find the others, and that seems difficult since most of them, if not all, are out of print. Oh, well. About the thriller writer Eric Ambler

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill