Gustav's Hand

Scribbles, Symbols and Getting Stuck

Malin Lundell, Master student in Early Modern History and intern at Gustav’s Hand When you run a page of handwritten text through an HTR-recognition program such as Transcribus, you are […]

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Malin Lundell

2 October 2024
The restrictions are lifted

Johan Sjöberg, Ph.D., Archivist at Uppsala University Library, Project Archivist The university library and the Department of History at Uppsala University started the project Gustav’s Hand because, in 2019, it […]

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Johan Sjöberg
Johan Sjöberg, Ph.D., Archivist at Uppsala University Library, Project Archivist

20 May 2024
Snapshots of Royal Christmas Shopping

Mikael Alm, Professor of History, Project Manager Volume F. 413 in the Gustavian Collection holds a collection of documents by Gustav III’s hand regarding various ceremonial and festive occasions, ranging from […]

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Mikael Alm
Mikael Alm, Professor of History, Project Manager

23 December 2023
The Bookbinder’s and Conservator’s Work in Gustav’s Hand

Gustav Duberg, Project Bookbinder & Carl Krantz, Project Conservator The first step is to dismantle the volume. This is done by cutting the endpaper near the inner edge of the […]

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Bookbinder and Coonservator

20 December 2023
Gustav III’s writings, digitally published in their entirety

Johan Sjöberg, Ph.D., Archivist at Uppsala University Library, Project Archivist Gustav III’s private archive – the so-called Gustavian Collection – consists partly of Gustav’s own writings, partly of letters and other documents […]

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Johan Sjöberg
Johan Sjöberg, Ph.D., Archivist at Uppsala University Library, Project Archivist

31 October 2023
Kungen, amiralen och de hemliga krigsplanerna

Sebastian Cöllen, Ph.D., Librarian & Researcher, Project HTR-Coordinator Nu är HTR-läsningen (Handwritten text recognition) av kung Gustav III:s brev i full gång! Projektet använder sig av Transkribus, en plattform som […]

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Sebastian Cöllen
Ph.D., Librarian & Researcher, Project HTR-Coordinator

7 September 2023
The note

The note is one of the smallest but also one of the more symbolically condensed items in the Gustavian collection. As King Gustav III prepared to leave for the Russian front in June 1788, he made all necessary arrangements.

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Mikael Alm
Mikael Alm, Professor of History, Project Manager

15 April 2023
The Gustavian collection as a tourist attraction, 1792‒1842

For fifty years, Gustav III’s archives – the Gustavian Collection – were kept at Uppsala University Library in two locked chests, one huge, the other more like a suitcase. When the collection was opened on the 50th anniversary of Gustav’s death, the German newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung noted that the locked chests had attracted the attention of all…

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Johan Sjöberg
Johan Sjöberg, Ph.D., Archivist at Uppsala University Library, Project Archivist

6 April 2023
Upcoming

“Building Research Infrastructure: Digitisation, Digital Enhancement, and Dissemination of the Gustavian Collection”: Project participants Mikael Alm, Sebastian Cöllen, and Johan Sjöberg present the project at the recently started Seminar for […]

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Mikael Alm
Mikael Alm, Professor of History, Project Manager

21 February 2023
Hur långt är egentligen 50 år?

Den 29 mars 1842 öppnades Gustav III:s efterlämnade papper i ett nyss övergivet Gustavianum i Uppsala. Det måste ha känts ganska ödsligt där när universitetsbibliotekets böcker just flyttats upp till det nybyggda Carolina Rediviva och lämnat 1700-talets biblioteksbyggnad helt tom. Kungen hade i sitt testamente förklarat att det måste gå 50 år efter hans död…

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Per Cullhed
Per Cullhed, avdelningschef för Konservering (1995–2005) och Specialsamlingarna (2005–2015), Uppsala universitetsbibliotek

4 December 2022