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It’s Archives Day in Sweden! This year’s them

Today the Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to a

Commander Grand Cross of the Royal order of the Po

Set of pewter cubical dry measure, manufactured by

Brass graphometer with accompanying leather case.

With this year’s Christmas greeting, we consider

The “Christmas gift of the year” appointed eve

The SMS research program

The Center conducted a large research program in 2013–2019: Science and modernization in Sweden: An institutional approach to historicizing the knowledge society. It involved researchers from the Center, Lund university, Gothenburg University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Umeå University and KTH in Stockholm. It was financed by the Marcus and Marianne Wallenberg Foundation.

Post doc collaboration with Umeå University

The Center in 2013–2015 collaborated with USSTE, Umeå University, about a post doc project. It was financed by the Göran Gustafsson Foundation.

The Linnaeus correspondence

The Linnaeus correspondence project made the whole of Linnaeus correspondence distributed in various archives available in one site on line, with summaries and translations as well as facsimiles. The project was financed by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.