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I guess everyone who comes to Paris already have their head filled with images of the city. At least anyone with an interest in photography, that is.
And when you get home and browse your photos, you come to think: are these really images of Paris? Or are they images of my own images of Paris?
Anyway, [...]

Last week, I appeared in radio. It was in a daily magazine program called “Apropos” on Danish Radio channel 1. Since the program was starting again after a summer break, the theme of the week was work.
My task was to tell the history of working hours: from the 10-11 hours workdays, dictated by the employers [...]

(Sorry, this post is danish only)
Der sidder en smuk, nøgen kvinde i et badekar. Fotografiet er taget 1. maj 1945, og motivet og kvindens positur giver associationer til tidens typiske pin-up billeder. Kun to ting forstyrrer: foran badekarret står et par møgbeskidte militær-støvler. Og på karrets kant står et portrætfoto af Adolf Hitler.
Det sidste skyldes, [...]

Getting older means getting a past. And more and more of it. Children, you once knew, are now adults. Adults, you once knew, are now dead. Countries, you have stayed in, does not exist anymore. Movements, you took part in, has been dissolved long ago.
Did we change the world just a little bit? Did the world [...]

People have spun yarn and woven fabrics through thousands of years. It was a production which was predominantly carried out as homework or crafts. During the 1700s, though, a revolutionary process was started in England: work became concentrated in large units, equipped with machines powered at first by water wheels and later by steam engines. [...]

The latest issue of the journal Arbejderhistorie (Labour history) is about class. Several articles deal with class as a theoretical and analytical concept.  Others are examples of the use of class in describing and explaining historical and present social phenomena.  A complete list of contributions can be found here.
I have written the article “Den modern [...]