Gustav's Hand

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  • 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 travelers for half a century.

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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 innan man fick öppna arkivet och läsa hans personliga korrespondens.

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    Per Cullhed

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

    4 December 2022

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