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Caspar Jørgensen
Industry - From mills to computers
Even though Denmark is known as an agricultural nation, industry has played a major role in the development of the welfare state. Around 1840, factories began to appear in earnest, and soon more were working industrial jobs than in agriculture. And between 1930 and 1970, the industrial sector was…
Birgitte Holten
Denmark as a colonial power - Spices, sugar, slaves and a special relationship
Denmark has had colonies in places as exotic at Tranquebar in the east, and St Croix in the west. Even though Denmark was only a minor colonial power, it was at times profitable. Two of the original northern colonies, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, remain a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Tyge Krogh
Crime and punishment - From the noose to the electric tag
That crime doesn't pay is something punishment has always needed to prove. But the way criminals are punished has changed radically down through history. At one point capital punishment was common, and the sentence was often justified by citing God's law". Today, criminals need not…
Niels Wium Olesen
World War II - Sleeping with the enemy
The German occupation in 1940-45 was the most dramatic episode in Denmark in the last hundred years. Compared with the brutality other Nazi occupied countries faced, conditions in Denmark were mild, and the democratic system functioned during most of the Occupation. But the price for the…
Klaus Petersen
The social welfare state - Paradise found?
In the years following World War II, Denmark became a welfare society. It is tempting to think of the developments as a clearly defined project, but that fails to take into account the coincidental interplay between the political visions and the actual changes. No-one in 1945 could have predicted…
Per Nyholm
European stories - Europe - the beautiful story
From cannons to coffee tables. Denmark and Europe across a cultural millennium.
Thomas Wegener Friis
The Cold War - The Russians never came
No sooner was World War II over than a new war had begun. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War divided not just the world, it also divided countries and even families. It was a conflict that pitted democracy against dictatorship, and with both sides armed with nuclear weapons, it was a…
Lars Jørgensen
The Iron Age: farmers and fighters - Danish farmers and Roman imports
During the Iron Age, technological and social changes occurred faster than ever before. The introduction of iron spurred enormous advances in weapons, crafts and agriculture. Contact with the powerful Roman Empire was another major catalyst that led to major developments in important areas such as …
Uffe Jakobsen
The cradle of democracy - From absolute monarchy to parliamentarism
Starting in the 1830s and until 1915, three decisive changes were implemented that were crucial for the development of democracy in Denmark. Citizens were given a legislature, the right to vote was expanded from just a small percentage of the population to nearly all adults and the introduction of …
Marianne Rasmussen
The Bronze Age - Life and death in the Bronze Age
The people of the Bronze Age were widely travelled and made contact with peoples far from their home. They were also active barrow builders, and within just a few centuries, the people living in what was to become Denmark built thousands of them. Barrow building involved people from near and far,…
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