This study focuses on change and continuity with the interwar period as the era to examine in the textbooks. The purpose of this study as such, is to see if the textbooks Levande Historia and Capensis on the chapter of the interwar period balance change and continuity. The theory that underlines the examination of these textbooks is the historical-thinking tradition, which highlights the importance of the students from an early age should learn to think more scientifically and to even think like a historian. Furthermore, a content analysis has been carried out on the interwar period in these textbooks to answer the questions that has been posed in the study. The content analysis highlights change above all, but it also shows that the balance between change and continuity is not even. The results show in relation toward the questions asked that the textbooks’ chapters in the interwar period does not have the balance between change and continuity, as it should. It also must be pointed out that the result of this study is focused on one chapter from both textbooks and that it does not necessarily will apply on the entire textbook. It is also highlighted in this study that there are difficulties in how students’ perspective can be affected by one-sided descriptions. The conclusion of this study shows that it is possible for further development when it comes to the content in textbooks, and that further research for improvement perhaps is what is needed forfuture students