#19th century sheningans

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My grandfathers mother could not go to school in winter because her family could not afford shoes and the owners of her families workplace lived like this

I am standing in these goldplated halls being like THE HELL

I have talked before about how my family are from ljusne industry factory village.

And that the owners of the factory house is now a musuem in stockholm

Well! I am there now, damn, no wonder the my relatives hated the von Hallwyl family so much

#19th century sheningans #the women who build and owned this house #and the factory #was literally still alive in the 1930s when my grandpa was born #she lived here and built this LITERALLY when my grandpas mother could not go to school #because she could not go barefoot in snow

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19th century factory owners literally be like: no you cant have higher wages, no you can't start a union, here is my armory of golden weapons

(Sorry for the fuzzy pictures, 19th century homes have dark lightning)

#Hallwyl #19th century sheningans

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Hmmmm wonder how many of these vases the family hallwyl needed to not buy so grandpas mother would have had shoes as a child

2 maybe, hmmm

Mrs Hallwyl used to once a year invite all the factory workers children in ljusne factory to cookies and juice in her home

A practice LOATHED among the factory workers, children and adults

I assume i am not the only one that was struck by similiar thoughts looking at their decorationz

Like, you are giving us cookies and think you are NICE but your furniture in this room cost more than anyone of your workers have in wages, hmmm

#19th century sheningans #Hallwyl

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19th century factory literally be like: no you cant have higher wages, no you can't start a union, here is my armory of golden weapons

(Sorry for the fuzzy pictures, 19th century homes have dark lightning)

#Hallwyl #19th century sheningans

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More on the theme of hiking in sweden. The swedish current day hiking forums are kinda bizarre in the context of the in recent living memory, people would walk between forexemple dalarna and stockholm, just as their

"Summer work commute"

And sure, we are talking about strong people who were farmers and so on buuuuut

My point is that all that gear, it is definitly not needed. It might make hiking more fun as a hobby. But needed. No

(Dalarna farmers used to have dance parties during the evenings of their yearly walk tp stockholm, those absolute madlads)

#19th century sheningans #blogkeeping

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Too many of swedish "folk magic rituals" of the 19th century as recordered by 19th century ethnologists include the sharing, mixing and drinking of body fluids of different kinds

(Menstrual blood, sperm, spit etc.)

Anyway, SOMEONE got a kink, and i dont know if it is the ethnologists or the farmers they are interviewing, but i just wanna say:

"Are you sure this is not a sex thing, and not actually a folk belief thing? Totally sure, hm?"

#or both #19th century sheningans #i say this because #it is so clearly things which #well can be part of such a context #that they kept appearing in those spells #they were to be fair love spells #which again are you SURE this is about love eh

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Historical hälsingland farmers be like:

This is my house, it has many rooms, i built it with all this easy acces wood i have.

And yes, i only live in the kitchen. The other rooms are... mostly decorative

#19th century sheningans

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Bold take, created be me suddenly recalling a novel i read in gender studies undergrad

So the book scene were a (rich) women throws of all fancy clothes, with a specific focus on that damn corset, and then bath in a nature lake going all like

"Can't believe the majority of swedens women do this all the time during summer, really makes one think"

(No actually she does not think think that haha, because that book was written by a an upper class women who has a very upper class view of like. Feminism.

This thought never crosses the character mind. What she actually think is like:

"Ahaha! At last, free from those norm of society naked and free!!!"

Until she gets up from the water and is all like. No wait, i am not free... looks at all the lines from the corset still on my body. Society has not Left Me.

It symbolic)

ANYWAY

I had two things i wanted to say about that scene

1.

This is like that trope about "women out in corset symbolisd society blabla" often seen modern day media.

Except actually written by a women during the 19th century.

My point is: i know claiming corset were so comfortable blabla have bern badmouthed by men blabla, actually corsets were feminist blabla is like The Popular Take Nowadays

But here! 19th century women! Actual corset wearing upper class 19th century women sriting the exact same type of scene! As a part of a feminist novel about that swedish women should also become fully legally adult when well adult married women, instead of the legal right of deciding going over to their husbands. Which it did.

2.

Is this one of the first "bathing nude in a lake in swedish summer" litterture scenes? Lol. They are such a cliché by this point in all swedish media haha.

#19th century sheningans

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1880s gen of swedish authors works be like:

Character walks into room, proclaims:

"Everyone in this room sucks, including myself"

*dies from telling too much truth*

#19th century sheningans

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Here is (a part of) the qoute from röda rummet by august strindberg

"Jag återvänder till mitt yttrande att vi sakna nationalitet. Kan någon säga mig något svenskt i Sverige annat än våra tallar, granar och järngruvor, vilka snart icke behövas mer i marknaden! Vad äro våra folkvisor? Franska, engelska och tyska romanser, i dålig översättning! [...]

Säg mig något svenskt skaldestycke, konstverk, musikstycke, som är specifikt svenskt, varigenom det skiljer sig från alla icke-svenska! Visa mig en svensk byggnad! Det finns icke, och finns det så är det antingen dåligt eller är det bildat efter utländskt mönster."

This is like the only part of röda rummet i enjoyed reading back in secondrary school. It is quite a rant about the ridicolousness of the construction of swedish nationalism which was very much at a peak in 1880s sweden

#19th century sheningans #august strindberg

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parody of the swedish parliement created by author anno 1880s

looking for the full qoute of the sweden rant in röda rummet translated to english i found these gems from before that scene occurs.

just august strindberg snarking about swedens parliement back in 1880s:

The chief clerk was reading: 54. Report of the Committee on Ola Hipsson's motion to remove the fences.

Timber merchant Larsson from Norrland demanded acceptance as it stood. "What is to become of our forests?" he burst out. "I ask you, what is to become of our forests?" And he threw himself on his bench, puffing.

This racy eloquence had gone out of fashion during the last few years, and the words were received with hisses, after which the puffing on the Norrland bench ceased.

The representative for Öland suggested sandstone walls; Scania's delegate preferred box; Norbotten's opined that fences were unnecessary where there were no fields, and a member on the Stockholm bench proposed that the matter should be referred to a Committee of experts: he laid stress on "experts." A violent scene followed. Death rather than a committee! The question was put to the vote. The motion was rejected; the fences would remain standing until they decayed.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38487/38487-h/38487-h.htm#9

the author is not wrong about that this is basically how swedens political protocols of the swedish 1880s sound like tho

#19th century sheningans #august strindberg

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Considering that is told that the 19th century seasonal workers from dalarna ik stockholm did not ONLY walk to, the entire way stockholm (and its a quite a distance!)

They also apperntly took time to have dance parties in the evening with all the the others farmers walking to stockholm to find jobs in the off season

Those dalarna farmers sure had some leg strenght

#19th century sheningans

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Young farmer women of 19th/early 20th century sweden literally be like:

"what i am doing? I am just making sure my future household will have comfy bed sheets for all eternity.

I am NOT gonna be that farmer women with ugly bed sheets in the village, i will not!"

A courious time traveller asks:

"so for how many years will your current hoard last?"

Young farmer women:

"Only 50 years! An outrage! It must last ar least a 100 years, and there will be enough for all my children too!"

Time traveller:

"but you literally wont get married until earliest in 10 years, arent you prepping a bit much? I mean, you havent even started looking for a fiance yet...."

Young women:

"this isnt about the husband, or marriage, this is about my pile of bed linen being bigger than my neighbours Birgits bed linen hoard, OK?!"

#19th century sheningans

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A true story from 1910s sweden:

70 year old lady kicking the legs of peoples chair because they are up late playing cards:

"the tomte* did it. Our house tomte just happens to loath late night card games. He cant stand it!"

*house spirit

Source: from nordiska minnens arkiv, told by a neighbour of that lady

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How bad are your attempts at hiding your gay love affair?

Is it as bad as Jean Baptiste Bernadotte attempt, were he said that him and the prime minister had lots of meeting in his bed at night because they were:

"having a meeting about how to rule the realm"

?

If your excuse is not that bad, get on Jean Baptiste Bernadottes level!

#19th century sheningans

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this is how to write an feminist call to action in the newspaper

Translation:

Hulda Flood [social democratic feminist] describes the growth of feminism within the socialistisk movements. During saturday, the 11 june 1892 one could read this ad in the social democratic newspaper Social - Demokraten:

“Ahoj, proletarian women! All of you which dwell in Stockholm, both married and unmarried, are now hereby invited to meeting at 9 o’clock were we will create a women rights group within the socialdemocratic party. Please show up with a crowd, and let the crowd bring everyone they know too!”

Source:

Albornoz, S. (2009). Socialdemokratiska kvinnor : Ledande pionjärkvinnor inom den socialdemokratiska kvinnorörelsen och den socialdemokratiska kvinnorörelsens syn på samhället mellan åren 1900-1909 (Dissertation). Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2797

#feminist history #19th century sheningans