Göran Ulväng
Researcher at Department of Economic History
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 73 10
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 251 58 67
- E-mail:
- Goran.Ulvang@ekhist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Associate professor, at the department of Economic History, Uppsala University with a focus on changes in agriculture, buildings, consumption, finances and insurances during the 18th and 19th centuries. Special area: manorial economy and material culture.
Key words: agriculture, household, working organization, buildings, landscape, estates, country houses, farms, economy, consumption, auctions, pawnbrokers, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century.
Biography
My research
My interest in historical research was founded in my high school years. For several years I worked in archaeology, but later decided to turn to economic history. I received my PhD in economic history in 2004 at Uppsala University. The topic of my dissertation was changes in buildings and farmhouses at estates, vicarages and farms during the 18th and 19th centuries, in the light of the changes in farming, landscape, household and work organization. The dissertation was published by Gidlund publishing house.
Since then my research has been branched into both historical consumption, credits and insurances, and manorial history. I am also a former editor of the scientific journal Nordic Journal of Settlement History and Built Heritage (Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift).
Consumption, credits and insurances
2024-: Member together with PI associate professor Sofia Murhem of the project Fairs in 18th and 19th century Sweden, financed by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation.
2018 -: Project leader of the project Fire Insurance on the Swedish countryside and the financial revolution. Organisation and Arguments 1734 to 1850, financed by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and Brandförsäkringsverkets stiftelse för bebyggelsehistorisk forskning. Coworker is Måns Jansson.
2015 - 2021: Member together with PI associate professor Sofia Murhem of the project The Swedish Church as an institutional lender in rural Sweden 1750-1900, financed by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation.
2010 - 2015: Member of the project Old Credits. The development of pawn-broking in Sweden in relation to the development of other systems of credit, regulations and the emerging welfare state 1850-1950, financed by the Swedish Research Council and Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation. PI was associate professor Sofia Murhem. This project enrolled two PhD-students, Tony Kenttää and Lisa Ramqvist.
2005 - 2009: Member of the project The forgotten consumption. The role of auctions in relation to the transformation of society in the 18th and 19th century, together with associate professors Sofia Murhem and Kristina Lilja. The project was financed by The Swedish Research Council. The result was published in the monograph Den glömda konsumtionen. Auktionshandeln i Sverige under 1700- och 1800-talen (The forgotten consumption. Auctions in Sweden during the 18th and 19th centuries) at Gidlund publishing house in 2013.
Country houses and estates
My interest for Country houses started in the early 1990´s since when I have published several books and articles on the subject.
2024- , project member together with PI Carolina Uppenberg and Marie Steinrud in the project One’s just reward? Servants’ wages, terms of employment and tangible assets in a changing manorial economy, 1730-1870, financed by Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation.
2020 -, project member together with PI Martin Dackling, Brita Planck and Magnus Bergman in the project Entailed manors in Sweden 1643 - 2020, Origin, Administration and Dissolution, financed by Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation.
2020, project member in the project Country House Museums in Sweden in the 20th century, financed by Stiftelsen Lagersberg.
2016 - 2019 : Project leader together with Ulrich Lange of the project Julita manor, financed by Stiftelsen Lagersberg and Brandförsäkringsverkets stiftelse för bebyggelsehistorisk forskning.
2012 - 2016: Project leader of the project Economy, management and material culture at country houses in 1700 – 1900, financed by Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation.
Database on Swedish manors
Since 2012 I run the project Database on Swedish manors, in which I collect data on estates in Sweden.
The database contain information on the manors’ location (parish, hundred and county), the acreage of the manors and the estates, the owners’ titles, names and surname and their partner’s titles, names and surname, at different dates from the middle ages to present day. This has resulted in around 2,400,000 pieces of information from around 15,300 manors and stately farms in Sweden and Finland. The data is avaible at the searchable homepage (www.svenskaherrgardar.se) were it is possible to make cross searches and download the results into excel files for further calculations. Part of the work has been done within the TORA project , financed by Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Swedish National Archives.
Networks
I manage an e-mail list for those interested in research on manors and manorial culture in Sweden. Messages are sent out irregularly with information on new research projects, books, articles, exhibitions etcetera. The list has 1,000 subscribers in Sweden and Scandinavia. If you want to become a member of the e-mail list, please send me an e-mail.
I am also engaged in the Nordic network for studies on castles and country estates and member of the steering group of the European Network for Country House and Estate Research, ENCOUNTER.
Teaching and presentations
During the last 10 years, I have given lecture series and seminars at courses in Economic history such as Globalisering - ett historiskt perspektiv (Globalization from a historical point of view) and Ekonomi och Samhälle (Economy and Society, a historical perspective), as well as courses in Agrarian history at the Section of Agrarian History, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
I give regularly presentations for local historical societies, museums and companies, trying to spread information on agrarian history, economic history, consumption and country houses and manorial culture.
I am an active member of several historical societies, among them Föreningen Gamla Bion i Örsundsbro (which has restored and now run a cinema from the 1920:s, showing movies and arranging concerts), Hagby hembygdsförening, Lagunda hembygdsförening, Upplands fornminnesförening, and Länsforskningsrådet i Uppsala län.
Publications
Recent publications
- ‘Servants` material culture in the transition from a feudal to a capitalistic economy, 1730 to 1870’, (2024)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2024 (2024)
- Church funds used for credit in eighteenth- andnineteenth-century rural Sweden (2024)
- Mahogany, sugar and porcelain (2023)
- Örsundaåns dalgång under 6000 år (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Church funds used for credit in eighteenth- andnineteenth-century rural Sweden (2024)
- Pawning and pawners in the industrial era (2023)
- Finländska herrgårdar i Databasen Sveriges Herrgårdar (2023)
- Fideikommissens uppgång och fall (2022)
- Fideikommissen i Sverige 1883-1975 i tabeller och diagram (2022)
- Aristocratic heritage in the service of the people: Country house museums in Sweden in the twentieth century (2022)
- BHT:s 700 artiklar digitaliserade och sökbara i DIVA (2021)
- Undervaluation in probate inventories probate inventory values and auction protocol market prices in eighteenth and nineteenth century Sweden (2019)
- Recension av: Isak Gustaf Clasons herrgårdsrestaureringar 1888–1930, av Mats Fredriksson (2019)
- Karin Gustavsson, Expeditioner i det förflutna: Etnologiska fältarbeten och försvinnande allmogekultur under 1900-talets början (Stockholm: Nordiska museet 2014). 239 s. (2016)
- Betydelsen av att äga en herrgård (2013)
- Herrgårdsbyggandet i Mälardalen under 1700- och 1800-talet (2011)
- Kalle Bäck, Sverigebilden (2010)
- Att följa decorum (2008)
- Storbondens habitus (2008)
- Grevarna Spens arkiv på Höja (2007)
- Landsbygdsbebyggelsen i arkiven (2007)
- Den glömda konsumtionen.Andrahandsmarknadens betydelse speglad genom auktionsverkens verksamhet (2006)
- Krapperup mellan renässans och skiftesreformer. (2006)
- Spenska gravkoret vid Gryta kyrka - ett verk av Carl Christoffer Gjörwell (2006)
- Den föränderliga herrgårdsträdgården (2005)
- Recension av Magnus Perlestam Den rotfaste bonden - myt eller verklighet (2003)
- Indelningsverkets militära boställen: vad vet vi egentligen? (2002)
- Majorsbostället Gryta (2001)
- Syneprotokoll, mantalslängd och brandförsäkringar (1999)
- Torpet Stenhuset och dess släktingar (1998)
- Upplands bortglömda kyrkor (1997)
- Landsberga gård: ett översteboställe ritat av Tessin (1997)
- Cinema Paradiso i Örsundsbro (1994)
Books
- Örsundaåns dalgång under 6000 år (2023)
- Hagby kyrka, kapitel och socken 1220-2020 (2020)
- Starfors & Molnebo (2020)
- Julita gård: (2019)
- Höja säteri (2015)
- Den glömda konsumtionen (2013)
- Hagby socken under 1900-talet (2012)
- Engsö slott (2011)
- Sjöö slott (2008)
- Herrgårdarnas historia (2008)
- Hus och gård i förändring (2004)
- Böndernas hus: den agrara bebyggelsen i sydvästra Uppland under 1700- och 1800-talen (Farmhouses. The agrarian buidings in south-west Uppland during the 18th and 19th centuries) (2001)
Chapters
- Mahogany, sugar and porcelain (2023)
- Herrgårdar i Norden - utblickar och reflektioner (2023)
- Grevinnorna Spens konsumtion under ett föränderligt 1700-tal (2023)
- Cabinet makers and chair makers in Stockholm 1730–1850 (2020)
- Hagby kyrka under 1600- och 1700-talen (2020)
- Den nya kyrkan i Hagby 1840-2020 (2020)
- The Swedish Manor 1750-1950 (2019)
- Ett ståndsmässigt boende (2019)
- Den oumbärliga jorden (2019)
- Holmgren (från Vattholma) (2018)
- Himmelsberg (från Torpa i Södermanland) (2018)
- Smitt, Schmidt (2018)
- Westman (2018)
- Dahlström (från Uppsala) (2018)
- Möbelsnickare och stolmakare i Stockholm 1730-1850. Produktion, levnadsvillkor och marknad. (2017)
- Manor-house building and economic growth in Sweden in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2017)
- To Buy a Plate: Retail and Shopping for Porcelain and Faience in Stockholm During the Eighteenth Century. (2017)
- Collin (från Uppsala) (2016)
- Pihlstrand (från Vårdsberg) (2016)
- Strengbom (från Strängnäs I) (2016)
- Voigtlender (2016)
- Strengbom (från Strängnäs II) (2016)
- Salmoon (2014)
- Brodell (från Bro) (2014)
- Rosell (från Torpa) (2014)
- Hellström (från Björskog) (2014)
- Godsägarens dilemma - att bruka själv eller arrendera ut? (2014)
- Auktioner etableras och sprids (2013)
- Auktioner i stad och på landsbygd (2013)
- Varorna (2013)
- Säljarna och köparna (2013)
- Utgångpunkter, frågor och avgränsningar (2013)
- Gårdar och byar i Hagby under 1000 år (2012)
- Jönsson (från Brunnby) (2011)
- Björnklo (2011)
- Från Girestaby till Starfors: (2011)
- Werner (från Köping) (2011)
- Klubbade stolar och bord (2010)
- Chairs and tables under the hammer (2010)
- The indispensible market. Auctions in Sweden in the 18th and 19th century (2009)
- Wallmo (från Boo) (2009)
- Godset (2008)
- De första 700 åren (2008)
- Herrgården (2008)
- Hemmet (2008)
- Herrgården i industrisamhället (2008)
- Inledning (2008)
- Fribergs säteri (2008)
- Jordbruk, hushåll och bebyggelse på Sjöö under 300 år (2008)
- Sjöö före Johan Gabriel Stenbock (2008)
- Auktionshandeln i stad och på landsbygd (2007)
- Nylin (från Nyköping) (2007)
- Grenholm (från Rödön) (2007)
- Ahlinder (från Alseda) (2007)
- Wedén (från Frustuna) (2007)
- Örsundsbro (2006)
- Laga skiftet i Hammarby år 1845 (2006)
- Staby säteri, en "vanlig" herrgård (2006)
- Herrgårdarna Ullvi och Grönö (2005)
- Interior of the house on Skälsebo estate (2004)
- View of the estate of Skälsebo (2004)
- Carlsson med Ulväng (2003)
Conferences
- ‘Servants` material culture in the transition from a feudal to a capitalistic economy, 1730 to 1870’, (2024)
- Entailed manors in Sweden (2022)
- The necessityof going to town. (2019)
- Production and Consumption in the Swedish Noble family Spens 1780 to 1820 according to the Account Books from the Estate, the Household and the Countess (2019)
- The necessity of going to town. Production and consumption in a late 18th century Swedish noble household (2019)
- Material Culture on Swedish Manors. Possessions and purchases on a regulated market 1730-1850. (2018)
- Church Endowments used for Credit in 18th and 19th century Sweden. (2018)
- The Importance of Economic and Cultural Capital. Material Culture on Swedish Manors 1770 to 1850. (2017)
- The Church as an Institutional lender (2017)
- När patron blev bonde. Ägandet av herrgårdar i Sverige 1950. (2016)
- The Swedish Manor in the 20th century - Decline or continuity? (2016)
- The church as a Parish Banker. Church Endowments used for credits in Rural Sweden 1750-1850. (2016)
- Godsägarhustrurs konsumtions- och resevanor under ett föränderligt 1700-tal (2015)
- Pawning- for the poor or the poorest? Pawn-broking in Sweden 1872-1950 (2015)
- Pawning-inequality as business? Pawn-broking in Sweden 1872-1950 (2015)
- Bouppteckningsvärde och marknadsvärde i städer och på landsbygd under 1700- och 1800-talen (2015)
- Manors, Towns and Spas. A household on the move in late 18th century Sweden. (2014)
- To Sell a plate. Marketing and distributing East-Indian porcelain in Stockholm in the 18th century. (2014)
- To buy a plate. Retail and shopping for Porcelain and Faience in Stockholm during the 18th Century (2014)
- Widening the audience. East Indian Porcelain on Auctions in Sweden (2013)
- Manor-house building and economic growth in Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries (2012)
- Att göra dygd av nödvändigheten (2009)
- Chairs and Tables under the Hammer. Second hand consumption of furniture in 18th and 19th century in Sweden. (2008)
- The forgotten consumption. The Forgotten Consumption. The role of auctions in relation to consumer society in the 18th and 19th century (2005)
Reports
- ”Till erinran om dem som där bott och verkat och sammanbragt samlingarna.” (2021)
- Salnecke hushållning (2019)
- Sågarbo herrgård, Älvkarleby socken, Uppland. Historia, landskap och bebyggelse under 300 år (2018)
- De bortglömda kartorna (2015)
- Bäddarö säteri, Löt, Uppland (2014)
- Herrgårdskartor (2014)
- Linnés ladugård (2009)
- Vårdprogram för Landsberga gård, Biskopskulla församling, Enköpings kommun. (2008)
- Linnés stall på Hammarby (2006)
- Hjälsta ödekyrka - flyttning av kyrkoplats och gravar under 1400-talet, Uppland, Hjälsta socken, Hjälsta 2:2 1/2, RAÄ 29 (2006)
- Ekolsunds slott (2006)
- Salnecke slott (2004)
Other
- Herrgårdsnytt 2024 (2024)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2023 (2023)
- Rymningen (2022)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2022 (2022)
- Härkeberga (2021)
- Örsundaåns dalgång under 6000 år (2021)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2021 (2021)
- Rött, grått och gult - tankar om färgsättning av historiska byggnader (2021)
- Arkiven ger svar på frågor om landsbygdens byggnader (2020)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2020 (2020)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2019 (2019)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2018 (2018)
- Ryda (2017)
- Alsta (2017)
- Kvekgården (2017)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2017 (2017)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2016 (2016)
- Herrgårdshistoria (2015)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2012-2014 (2015)
- Herrgårdsnytt 2015 (2015)
- Örsundaåns dalgång (2014)
- Herresätenas histora från medeltid till nutid (2014)
- Örsundaåns dalgång under 6000 år. Agrar tillväxt (2014)
- Örsundaåns dalgåg under 6000 år. Sten- och bronsålder (2014)
- Örsundaåns dalgång under 6000 år. Industriell tid. (2014)
- En handelsplats för alla (2014)
- Örsundaåns dalgång under 6000 år. Järnålder (2014)
- Örsundaåns dalgång under 6000 år. Medeltid (2014)
- Örsundaåns dalgång under 6000 år. Nationalstat (2014)
- De livsnödvändiga auktionerna (2014)
- Landshövding von Kraemer i Örsundsbrobygden (2014)
- Den andra marknaden. Om auktioner i Sverige (2014)
- Grevarna Spens arkiv på Höja. Ett gårds- och släktarkiv från fyra sekel. (2013)
- Auktionsprotokoll. En outnyttjad källa. (2013)
- Hagby kyrka under 1900-talet (2012)
- Klockargården i Hagby (2012)
- Hagby IK (2012)
- Hagby prästgård (2012)
- Vägunderhåll i Hagby (2012)
- Agrar revolution gav tillväxt och välstånd (2012)
- Lagunda i litteraturen (2012)
- Skolan i Hagby (2012)
- 300 år gamla köpvanor spåras i auktionsprotokoll (2008)
- Inte bättre förr (2007)
- Hur gammalt är huset på landet? (2007)
- Gamla bion i Örsundsbro (2007)
- Arkiven ger svar. Några tips om hur man söker information om landsbygdens bebyggelse i arkiven (2006)
- Säteri, herrgård, slott och fideikommiss (2006)
- Myter och sanningar om vår byggnadskultur (The vernacular buildingtradition: Myth and reality) (2002)
- När byggdes huset? Arkiven ger svar: Några tips om hur man söker information om landsbygdens byggnader i arkiven. (When was the house built? The archives have the answer :On how to seek information on rural buildings) (2002)
- Sex gods i sydvästra Uppland. (1997)
- Handelsbodar i Lagunda härad (1994)
- Jordbrukets marknadsanpassning (1993)
- Örsundsbro - ett litet samhälles framväxt i slutet av 1800-talet. (1993)
- Äldre bebyggelse i Örsundsbro (1992)
- Mälardalens hustyper (1992)
- Biografen i Örsundsbro. Invgningen maj 1992. (1992)
- Länsmansbostället Stora Bärby (1991)
- Statare (1990)
- Torpen på Husby gård 1711-1920 (1989)
- Husabyarna (1988)