What do you do when there's too much of everything and everything's too much for you? Barbara Czarniawska and Orvar Löfgren have collected such situations, and strategies people have resorted to in dealing with them, in Overwhelmed by Overflows.

Money can't buy everything, but in early modern Europe it bought a lot, not least for France and recipients of French subsidies. Subsidies, Diplomacy, and State Formation in Europe, 1494-1789, edited by Svante Norrhem and Erik Thomson, tells a hitherto neglected story.

Eric Pudney's Scepticism and Belief in English Witchcraft Drama, 1538-1681, our second book published in 2018, shows that Macbeth's weird sisters and other witches on the Renaissance stage were bearers of manifold and complex notions about witchcraft. A riveting read.

Fresh from the presses! ”The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden” tells the history of how modern environmentalism emerged in Swedish society and how this shaped world events. Open Access: manchesteropenhive.com/view/978919855… #envhist #histknow Lund University Press Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) Manchester University Press

Lund University Press author Mia-Marie Hammarlin has an essay on anti-vaxxers in today's (9/13) Svenska Dagbladet, at svd.se/vad-vi-kan-lar… (paywall). If you can read Swedish, don't miss it! It offers eloquent and moving proof that contemptuous dismissal is the worst response.

David Larsson Heidenblad's 'The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden', just out, has lessons on several levels, opening fresh perspectives as well as offering dizzying déjà-vu moments. A national story with global relevance, it also shows that history is made by individuals.

Ingmar Bergman left a massive and multifaceted legacy, as Erik Hedling's collection of contemporary approaches to the Swedish filmmaker's work demonstrates. Just out from Lund University Press, 'Ingmar Bergman: An Enduring Legacy' shows that the Bergman magic still lives.

The new Lund University Press monograph on the environmental turn in Sweden by David Larsson Heidenblad is of course available #openaccess from Manchester University Press. manchesteropenhive.com/view/978919855…

Start the week off right by having a look at the new Lund University Press edited volume on #IngmarBergman - open access from Manchester University Press. manchesteropenhive.com/view/978919855…

The first Lund UP author, Johan Östling, has been awarded the annual Einar Hansen Prize, which goes to particularly eminent Lund and Copenhagen scholars in mid-career. A great honour as well as a tidy sum, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. Congratulations!

The first three volumes of Sven Rubenson and co-editors' ACTA AETHIOPICA are now available Open Access at ht.lu.se/en/series/97. Lund University Press published Volume IV this year (2021). We're delighted that this monumental work can now be read online in its entirety.

A hugely favourable review of the Swedish version of David Larsson Heidenblad's book on the environmental turn in Sweden just appeared on hsoz.kult.de/publicationsre…, an internationally well known and respected site. The English version is mentioned (albeit ascribed to Manchester).

The high-ranking Danish journal 'Historisk Tidsskrift' has just reviewed David Larsson Heidenblad's 'The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden' in enthusiastic terms (vol. 121.2.576-8, 2021). The reviewer's praise for the methodical approach is good news for LUCK at Lund, too.

A magnificent review of Jes Wienberg's HERITOPIA just appeared in the renowned journal ANTIQUITY, doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…. A careful, extensive discussion, it praises the book's erudition and originality, ending with the accolade 'outstanding and thought-provoking'.

Our first podcast episode is out now! soundcloud.com/ht-samtal/the-… Listen to David Larsson Heidenblad discuss his recent Lund University Press monograph: The Environmental Turn in Sweden: A New History of Knowledge - available Open Access and in print via Manchester University Press

An interdisciplinary study of vocal expressions in oral cultures in Asia and Alaska presents unique materials and an original method of analysis. *In the borderland between song and speech*, ed. Lundström & Svantesson, revolutionises research on vocal performance. Just out!

Read *In the borderland between song and speech* on manchesteropenhive.com/view/978919855… You can click on the recordings to listen to the performances.

With reference to the recent death of a senior Swedish police officer who found himself in the middle of a media storm: read EXPOSED, Mia-Marie Hammarlin's engrossing study of what it is actually like to be in that situation. Available Open Access on our website.

When the Enlightenment arrived in the Nordic countries, Lutheran orthodoxy was challenged – but it proved surprisingly adaptable to the new ideas. Read how clergymen in the distant North took reason, rationalism and reform on board in startling ways. manchesterhive.com/display/978919…

The hero who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust in Hungary was imprisoned in the Soviet Union and never released, as his own country did nothing to save him. His name lives on, in monuments, films & books. New ground-breaking study open access manchesterhive.com/display/978919…