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da 11 Febbraio 2026
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A king under arrest. A foreign army advancing. A country on the brink of collapse. By the spring of 1809, Sweden is facing a catastrophe that will change its history forever. The Finnish War has gone disastrously wrong. After centuries of shared rule, Finland is slipping away from Sweden. Russian…

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The Russians have invaded Finland. And now Sweden has to fight. But the Finnish War of 1808–1809 isn't a simple story of one army overwhelming another. Sweden will retreat, fight back, win battles, lose momentum, and find itself facing an enemy with something Sweden desperately lacks: the ability t…
In 1808, Sweden was about to lose Finland. But the war that would take Finland from Sweden didn't begin when Russian soldiers crossed the border. By then, the pieces had already been moving for years. Napoleon was reshaping Europe. Russia had made an astonishing change of direction. Britain was fig…
What happens when a country starts remembering its past differently? Sweden had spent years recovering from the collapse of its empire. The monarchy had been restrained, the Riksdag had gained enormous influence, and for a while, the country had something it desperately needed: peace. Then memory b…
What happens when a country loses an empire and has to figure out who it is without it? In 1721, Sweden was exhausted. Its empire was collapsing, its treasury was struggling, and the king who had spent two decades at war was dead. Sweden could have spent the next generation trying to reclaim what …
What does it feel like to finally stand in a place you've spent years studying? In this special bonus episode of Beyond the Swedish Postcard, I take you with me to Öland and to one of the places I've been fascinated by for years: Sandby borg. I've already told you the history of this fifth-century …
At the dawn of the 18th century, Sweden was one of Europe's greatest powers. Its armies were feared, its kings were legendary, and many believed its empire could never be defeated. Then a fifteen year old king inherited the throne. In this episode of Beyond the Swedish Postcard, we follow the remar…
Step into seventeenth-century Sweden, where one frightened child's story would ignite the deadliest witch hunt in the nation's history. Between 1668 and 1676, more than 300 people were executed during a wave of fear known as The Great Noise. But how did ordinary villages become convinced that witch…
In the brutal winter of 1658, King Karl X Gustav led a Swedish army across the frozen waters between Denmark's islands in one of history's boldest military gambles. Against all odds, the sea became a road, forever changing the map of Scandinavia.
Why would one of Europe's most powerful monarchs willingly walk away from the throne? In Episode 23 of Beyond the Swedish Postcard, we explore the extraordinary life of Queen Christina of Sweden, one of the most fascinating and unconventional rulers in European history. Raised as a prince after the…
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