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Attitudes towards minorities in eighteenth-century Sweden | Scilicet A curious entry to an 18th century essay competition held by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities tells us some interesting things about the place of Roma people and other min...

New post 📜@nataliesmith.bsky.social introduces her podcast episode on a 1780 essay describing Roma people in the Swedish empire. This essay shows how people in Sweden were constructing an identity that excluded Roma and Sami people #SwHist #GRT #18thC #Sweden #empire scilicet.org.uk/attitudes-to...

Copying as a subversive scientific practice: Billberg’s copy of Rudbeck’s Fogelboken | Scilicet How the act of copying was used to break down knowledge barriers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sweden.

In our next visit to the archives, we find ourselves in eighteenth-century Sweden! @nataliesmith.bsky.social explores a curious case of copying a tool of practice, featuring plenty of bird drawings 🐦 #intellectualhistory #18thC #Sweden #swhist scilicet.org.uk/copying-as-a...