A Swedish excavation took place in the settlement of San Giovenale between the years 1956 to 1965 to shed further light on Etruscan settlements. During the excavation, a great amount of bucchero was uncovered at the site. This study focusses on the forms of bucchero that were uncovered in the San Giovenale area and how these vessels might be connected to a broader network of the ware. By identifying the forms of bucchero found in the area and by bringing together all the earlier publications concerned with the bucchero finds from San Giovenale, this study tries to look at the bucchero material in its totality. By locating and counting the forms and context in which the bucchero was found, together with the other finds from the area, this study attempts to contextualize and uncover the status of the bucchero ware within the settlement and how this particular ware might be connected with the Etruscan banquets. By bringing all the material together from all the areas in San Giovenale, this study hopes to paint a clearer picture of the bucchero in San Giovenale in terms of form, amount, chronology and spread of bucchero. By studying the bucchero from the settlement of San Giovenale we might greatly enhance our understanding of the bucchero ware outside of the tomb context that it is usually found within.

This thesis has been an odyssey of sorts, into how the creative and playful use of digital tools, such as virtual reality technology, may prompt one's engagement with ‘the lost atmosphere of a Place’ and its history. My point of reference is the novel platform known as Uppsala VR, the property of the Gamla Uppsala museum in Sweden. What exactly has been its nature and purpose? How is it being embedded in the overall museum practice? How do visitors perceive and experience it? What started as a User Experience (UX) survey, yet, in time evolved into an exploration of the Uppsala VR in terms of ‘mediated spectacle’. Eventually, through continuous observations, negotiation, and reflection, an intricate understanding develops about what lies beyond for historical heritage and its representation, and about the role of the users’ imaginative creativity in this process.

Detta arbete tar sin utgångspunkt i det faktum att hemsidan SO-rummet.se, en digital utbildningsresurs med inriktning mot SO-ämnena, är mycket välbesökt och rekommenderad av en rad olika aktörer, från Skolverket till enskilda lärare. Trots detta är hemsidan sparsamt beforskad. Vad är det egentligen som möter alla skolungdomar som använder hemsidan? I detta arbete granskas SO-rummets kvinnohistoriska skildringar. Syftet är centrerat kring att öka kunskaperna om hur kvinnor och kvinnohistoria skildras i utbildningsmaterial samt hur kvinnohistoria generellt skildras. Klas-Göran Karlssons historiebruksterminologi fungerar som teoretiskt analysverktyg. Materialet består av 78 kvinnohistoriska artiklar från SO-rummet, vilka analyseras kvalitativt. Resultatet visar att kvinnor skildras på två diametralt olika sätt i SO-rummets artikelmaterial. Genom den kvinnohistoriska ambition som presenteras på SO-rummet uppkommer en viss typ av kvinnoskildringar. Utgångspunkten är då ett moraliskt historiebruk. I skildringarna återfinns också ett vetenskapligt historiebruk, men även genusteoretiska resonemang om kvinnors villkor i olika tider, vilket här bedömts som ett ideologiskt historiebruk. Kvinnor skildras sakligt och med fokus på deras bedrifter. I analysens andra del undersöks istället kvinnoskildringar som skiljer sig från de som tidigare uppmärksammats. Dessa skildringar bedöms som uttryck för ett så kallat ideologiskt patriarkalt historiebruk. Kvinnor skildras med ett manligt fokus och när de väl uppmärksammas som individer, skildras de som inkompetenta och med fokus på deras privatliv och utseenden. Stereotypa uttalanden om kvinnor problematiseras ej. Dessa två olika typer av kvinnoskildringar är dock inte särdeles åtskilda i materialet, utan där möts de, om än i olika hög grad i olika artiklar. Därav torde det vara svårt för elever att hantera de patriarkalt ideologiska kvinnoskildringarna, eftersom de samexisterar med innehåll med ett annat budskap. Konsekvenserna av ett ideologiskt patriarkalt historiebruk bedöms drabba både elevernas förmåga att resonera historiskt samt deras eget existentiella historiebruk. Ett annat resultat rör just arbetet med ett ideologiskt patriarkalt historiebruk, en specificering av ideologiskt historiebruk som är okänd sedan tidigare för uppsatsförfattaren, men som här fungerat väl som analysverktyg. Detta tyder på att begreppet kan vara användbart även för andra.

This study is based on twelve children born in the late 1700´s and early 1800´s in the city of Västervik. During 1807 and 1809 they received child support due to their poor upbringing. This essey will study how their life unfold after they got child support, will the children remain poor or will they have a chance to develop a new life. This study will also look on the structure of child support in the early nineteenth century in Sweden. This study has used an a collective biography method and class perspective. The study´s source material has been accesed through ArkivDigital search service. The conclusion is that many of the children did not receive education beacuse they were poor or sick. Which made them take works that didn´t required any form of education, the children had therefore no chance to change their life and stayed poor for the rest of their lives. Child support in the early nineteenth century was structured to give money to parents of poor and sick children. The idea behind child support was just to make the children survive, so they later become workers in society.

In this research, the women ideals, during the 1930s have been studied based on the content of two women's magazines, Hertha and Husmodern. The purpose of the study was to look in to, how the ideals are expressed in each magazine, how the growing nationalism and the society’s social structure are affected by the design of the ideals, and then concluded in a comparison between the results of the magazines content. The study also had a gender perspective and was based on the theories gendersystem and genderorder. Results showed that ideals of beauty, ideals of housewives, motherhood and knowledge as ideals were indicated in the magazines, in different ways; through advertisements, articles and question columns. There was also a clear difference in which ideals the magazines expressed and also how they were expressed. In summary, the study showed that the prevailing societal changes after the First World War contributed to a process of change among Swedish women and they became increasingly aware of their rights and their independence. The study also showed that beauty- and body ideals became important ideals to follow as a Swedish woman.

This essay deals with the lives of soldiers' widows in Himmeta parish in Västmanland and boatsmen's widows in Förkärla parish in Blekinge in the 19th century with the aim of highlighting these women. I chose these women from a parish register from 1871-1880. To get a basis for this study, I have chosen to follow the widows of soldiers and boatsmen from when they were born until they became soldier widows. The results have been analyzed based on their family background, the widows' marriages and how their children fared. The answer I got was that the widows came from the lower classes, it was not common for them to remarry and that their children did not choose the same professions as their fathers. Ericson Wolke has served as an important reference to my work. The majority of soldiers’ and boatsmen’s widows lived a difficult life. The essay deals with twenty soldiers’ and boatsmen's widows. I have compared their lives as maids with their subsequent lives as married women and then as widows, but also how their children’s lives turned out. The essay shows that there is a certain difference between being the widow of a soldier over a in the agrarian society during the 19th century. Although life was hard for soldiers’ widows, life was even harder for boatsmen’s widows.

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In this thesis, material of recent hop from different locations in Sweden have been analyzed with EA-IRMS for carbon-, nitrogen- and sulfur isotopes. The aim has been to find a method to distinguish between cultivated and wild hops, and whether it is a useful method for provenancing of hop. Furthermore, hop fruit from archaeological sites have been analyzed with the same method. An experimental water immersion of recent hop fruits has also been carried out, to investigate how this would affect the isotopic values.

This study turns to what is for many an everyday item – yogurt – as a critical zone observatory, a synergistic, place-based laboratory which aims to integrate heterogenous representations of planetary phenomena as they are registered at a common surface. Yogurt has an impressive cultural endurance largely derived from its prominence in various paradigms of health. The product has culturally endured in another sense: as a common cultural medium where humans and microbes have met for generations. This study begins with a profile of yogurt as most encounter it today to consider how normative notions of health interface with the temporal and spatial imaginaries entailed in commodity geographies. Commoditized yogurt is characterized by a low and limited microbial biodiversity compared to yogurts produced outside of the commodity context. Yogurt is therefore presented as a micro case study to consider modes by which we sense and valuate ecological phenomena beyond the perceptible surface, how such sens-abilities intersect models of health, and to what effect. To trace a history of yogurt along these contours, I introduce it as a particular kind of artefact: a global object. As an object of environmental history, I define a global object as a global commodity with a high potential to be re-localized, and therefore with a high potential to re-shape commodity geographies. However, this trajectory is contingent upon framing yogurt as a critical zone observatory – a site where global phenomena like human-microbial interaction may become familiar and intimate. Guided by new materialist theory, I weave together historical and ethnographic case studies from the following consortium: resident yogurt bacteria, artisanal yogurt producers and home fermenters, a mystical immunologist, and an 11th century linguistic scholar. Through these perspectives, I both sketch and apply a framework for de-centered, interspecies histories of cultural (re)production through an extended metaphor of biofilm: the coagulative bacterial structure giving yogurt its characteristic texture. In so doing I provide a re-articulation of “the probiotic” as an integrative case of human and more-than-human health. The study concludes by directing these implications towards a consideration of aesthetic engagement by displaying how fermentation practice may enliven matters of re-diversification and re-localization.