Scandinavia

Ragnhild Hatton on her memories - and the perspective of other historians - on Wartime Norway.

David Kirby discusses how Sweden's sudden rise to prominence in 17th-century Europe provoked much soul-searching both within and without the country on its nature, its culture and its destiny.

Ann Hills on excavations in the Arctic and displays in the Tromso Museum.

An exploration of the heroic period of 17th-century Sweden through a new Royal Academy exhibition.

John Burrows presents this month’s Today's History feature to coincide with the birth of N.F.S. Grundtvig, the Danish political reformer and father of further education.

Sakari Sariola looks at the relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union.

In the winter of 1939-40, whilst already waging war against the might of Nazi Germany, Britain, together with France, was preparing to send a military expedition to Finland to fight against the Soviet Union. Had this expedition materialised, argues B.D.P. Conduit, the course of the Second World War might well have been disastrously altered.

A short editorial by Michael Trend.

S.M. Toyne tells the strange tale of Johann Frederick Struensee, Denmark's 18th century German dictator.