Scandia: tidskrift för historisk forskning is an academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 for history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 which has been published since 1928, when it was established by the Swedish historian Lauritz Weibull

Lauritz Weibull

Lauritz Ulrik Absalon Weibull was a Swedish historian.He was born in Lund, son of history professor Martin Weibull and the brother of Curt Weibull and Carl Gustaf Weibull, enrolled at the University of Lund in 1892, completed his B.A. 1892, his licentiate degree in 1899 and defended his...

 (1873-1960, University of Lund). The journal, which has a Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

n scope, has always been affiliated with the Department of History at the University of Lund.

The first volumes of the journal, which have come into the public domain

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, are available online as scans and OCR

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 text at Projekt Runeberg.

External links

• Entry in Libris, stable link
• Scandia at Projekt Runeberg.