Swedes from across the north-east of England have celebrated the traditional Scandinavian festival of Sankta Lucia at Hexham Abbey religion Article 470 words 4 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa history.military archaeology.marine Article 463 words 7 votes
Halting way to the right road – Dagen H is the day Sweden switched to driving on the right in 1967 history Article 802 words 8 votes
Götheborg of Sweden – The world's largest wooden sailing ship history Video 19:56, published Aug 24 2022 5 votes
Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war history.military Article 226 words, published Jul 27 2022 2 votes
Replica 18th century ship Götheborg of Sweden plans to re-sail the trading route from Sweden to China history Article 586 words 9 votes
A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years history archaeology.amateur Article 321 words 8 votes
Matthew Syed looks at how the behaviour of hostages at a 1973 bank robbery gave rise to a concept known as Stockholm syndrome history Article 5 votes
The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare history.military Video 21:36, published Dec 13 2020 7 votes
Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999) history Article 1305 words, published Oct 17 1999 8 votes
The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time – a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960 religion Article 525 words 8 votes
How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone history archaeology linguistics religion language Article 354 words 9 votes
Swedish prosecutors have named Stig Engström as the man who killed former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, ending years of mystery history Article 625 words 5 votes
Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination – sources say South Africa handed over dossier, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solved history Article 1052 words 5 votes
Who killed Swedish prime minister Olof Palme? After a night at the cinema in 1986, Palme was assassinated on Stockholm's busiest street history Article 145 words 5 votes
Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles history language Article 621 words 9 votes
Sweden dodged a bullet by not building this nuclear submarine – the reactor had an insufficient amount of nuclear shielding history.military Article 532 words 5 votes
Researchers used skeletal remains and ancient DNA to reconstruct the burial of a woman who lived in what is now southern Sweden 7,000 years ago history archaeology Article 891 words, published Nov 11 2019 4 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa history.military archaeology.marine Article 359 words, published Nov 8 2019 5 votes
MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld history Article 579 words 8 votes
Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident history Article 237 words, published Jul 19 2019 4 votes
Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died history Article 1349 words 7 votes
Funerals of the future? – Sweden sees sharp rise in burials without ceremony religion Article 1015 words 4 votes
Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge history.military Link 4 votes
Sweden to return remains of twenty-five Sámi people after more than half a century – historic event aimed at mending ties with the community history Link 7 votes
Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents history Article 880 words 5 votes
Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years history archaeology Article 495 words 7 votes
Recreating a medieval method of splitting a log into rafter history Video 22:14, published Mar 19 2018 8 votes