Recently added to our collection are 19 books by Swedish journalist Elin Wägner (whose works entered the public domain this January) and five years of the Norwegian suffragette journal Nylænde (1888-1892).
While the whole world is worrying about the new corona virus, we thought that maybe we can derive some wisdom from the history of previous epidemics. The Spanish Flu of 1918 comes to mind. What has been written about it, really? Perhaps the best accounts we have are encyclopedia entries from the 1920s about influenza, such as this one in Nordisk familjebok.
Over the years, we have digitized and gathered quite a few books relating to medicine, but we have only now made a thematic page for this topic. Most of the books found there are in Swedish. We welcome suggestions for more works to digitize. Recently, we have added:
