Change tracker
What changed on the site
A readable log of visible updates, new material, checks, and cleanup — newest first.
Review
18 June 2026
A new Blog section — and its first article on a century of Swedish splits
The site now has a Blog. Its first article, “Consensus as repair,” is a popular history of how Sweden has split apart several times over the past century — from the 1931 Ådalen shootings to today — and rebuilt its famous consensus each time. The article links into the encyclopedia, and a new page for film director Bo Widerberg (Ådalen 31) was added so one of those links resolves. Russian first; Swedish and English to follow.
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What moved forward
Reader experience
A new Blog section, with an index and a first article that links into the encyclopedia’s events and people.
New material
A page for Bo Widerberg now sits in the encyclopedia, linked from the 1931 Ådalen event it depicts.
Checks and sources
The page is backed by a fresh research pass, with its sources and a provenance trail recorded.
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What changed during the day
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Added a Blog section and published the first article, “Consensus as repair.”
Reader experience Visible
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Ran a fresh research pass on Bo Widerberg and Ådalen 31 and saved the sources.
Checks and sources Behind the scenes
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Added the Bo Widerberg page in all three languages, linked from the 1931 Ådalen event.
New material Material
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Behind-the-scenes work
- Material Created a page for film director Bo Widerberg (Ådalen 31).
- Sources Logged the research trail and sources behind the Widerberg page.
Review
15 June 2026
A new cluster: Sweden’s racial-biology institute and the forced-sterilization laws
Added pages on the 1922 State Institute for Racial Biology — the world’s first, founded by a unanimous Riksdag — and the 1934 sterilization law and its 1941 expansion, through the roughly 63,000 sterilizations to the 1997 public reckoning and the 1999 compensation. The account treats eugenics as built into the early welfare-state project rather than a footnote to it, and rests on primary sources: the original government bills and the 2000 state inquiry (SOU 2000:20). New illustrations for 1922, 1934, 1941 and 1997, in all three languages.
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What moved forward
New material
New pages trace the arc from the 1922 racial-biology institute through the 1934 and 1941 sterilization laws to the 1997 reckoning and 1999 compensation.
Checks and sources
The claims rest on primary sources — the original government bills and the 2000 state inquiry (SOU 2000:20) — with a recorded provenance trail.
Year illustrations
Event illustrations for 1922, 1934, 1941 and 1997 were made and localized into all three languages.
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What changed during the day
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Added the racial-biology and forced-sterilization pages, from the 1922 institute to the 1999 compensation.
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Localized the event illustrations for the eugenics pages (1922, 1934, 1941, 1997).
Year illustrations Visible
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Behind-the-scenes work
- Material Created the racial-biology and forced-sterilization pages (1922 institute, 1934 and 1941 laws, 1997 reckoning).
- Sources Grounded the claims in the original 1934 bill and the 2000 state inquiry (SOU 2000:20), with a provenance trail.
- Illustrations Made event illustrations for 1922, 1934, 1941 and 1997.
Review
11 June 2026
A new party-values timeline — see when each party changed course, and how to read it
A new page lays out, party by party, when each one shifted its stated values between 1990 and 2026. Markers are coloured by theme, you can open the story behind each one, and a short page explains how we tell an honest change from a betrayal. Event pages now link into the timeline and show who was involved.
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What moved forward
Reader experience
A new party-values timeline shows when each party changed course. Event pages now link into it, show who was involved, and each marker can be opened by a shareable link.
New material
A short methodology page explains how we name a change: a kept promise, an honest correction, or a betrayal.
Polish and fixes
Related shifts on event pages now show the closest ones first, and the new timeline block was made more robust.
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What changed during the day
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Set up the data and checks behind the new party-values timeline.
Reader experience Behind the scenes
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Added a new page that shows when each party changed course, with markers you can hover and open.
Reader experience Visible
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Event pages now show small chips linking to the people and parties involved.
Reader experience Visible
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Added a short page explaining how we tell a kept promise, an honest change, and a betrayal apart.
New material Material
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Built the helper that places each event on the values timeline.
Reader experience Behind the scenes
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Made timeline markers shareable by link — opening one highlights it.
Reader experience Visible
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Event pages now show a small block placing the event on the values timeline.
Reader experience Visible
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Ordered related shifts on event pages by closeness and made the timeline block more robust.
Polish and fixes Checks
Review
17 May 2026
Filename cleanup for every year picture, plus nine 1950s illustrations
Every year picture on the site now has a unique filename that says the year, route, and language out loud — useful for sharing a single image link or finding it in a long list. Nine more year illustrations landed for the 1950s in English, Swedish, and Russian.
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What moved forward
Year illustrations
New 1950s pictures filled in a long-standing gap. Every year picture got a unique filename so devtools, share links, and asset lists can tell them apart without opening each one.
Polish and fixes
A small automatic step now compresses new pictures before they are saved, so the site stays fast without anyone having to remember the step.
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Added year illustrations for 1950 and 1952-1959 in English, Swedish, and Russian.
Year illustrations Material
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Set up an automatic image-compression step that runs each time a picture is saved.
Polish and fixes Behind the scenes
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Renamed every year picture so the filename now shows the year, route, and language at a glance.
Polish and fixes Visible
Review
15 May 2026
A full-site content and interface consolidation day
The site became more connected: a new archive-style home page, charts, lists of people, parties and governments, linked year pages, public event pages, better mobile screens, and more checked material.
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What moved forward
Reader experience
The reader-facing site became easier to navigate: home page, charts, lists, year links, event pages, and concept pages now feel like one system.
New material
Large batches of people, parties, governments, events, and year pages were added or made ready for readers.
Year illustrations
Year illustrations were organized, and older pictures were removed where they need to be remade.
Polish and fixes
Checks, mobile screens, source lists, party labels, text links, and event ordering were tightened.
Checks and sources
Behind the page, the team checked sources, recorded decisions, and queued topics that need deeper work.
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What changed during the day
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Prepared background tools and draft materials for the day of site work.
Year illustrations Behind the scenes
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Added people, events, parties, and governments for 2022-2026.
New material Material
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Rebuilt the home page as a cleaner archive-style overview.
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Added pages for Johan Pehrson and Salwan Momika.
New material Material
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Added a page with charts that explain the century at a glance.
Reader experience Visible
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Added lists and pages for people, parties, and governments.
Reader experience Visible
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Connected year pages with the related people, parties, and governments.
Reader experience Visible
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Gave the year pages the same paper-like visual style as the rest of the site.
Reader experience Visible
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Added historical events, cabinets, people, and parties for 1927-2021.
New material Material
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Made the site use the new curated material and mark missing pages clearly.
Reader experience Visible
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Improved checks so year links point only to years that the site actually has.
Polish and fixes Checks
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Made year pages gather related events and people automatically.
Reader experience Visible
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Added 56 events so every year has stronger coverage.
New material Material
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Gave event and concept pages the same paper-like visual style.
Reader experience Visible
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Made source links easier to scan and open.
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Improved the mobile version across the main pages.
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Made party pages show prime ministers as compact, readable labels.
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Cleaned up links inside text and made event ordering clearer.
Polish and fixes Visible
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Removed older year illustrations that need to be remade.
Year illustrations Behind the scenes
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Behind-the-scenes work
- Illustrations Prepared year illustrations for 2017-2026.
- Material Added people, events, parties, and governments for 2022-2026.
- Fact check Corrected public criticism points around 1939-1945 and 1976-1977.
- Material Built the prime-minister backbone for 1927-2026.
- Material Added governments across 1927-2026.
- Material Added major events for 1927-2021.
- Material Added more public figures and missing parties.
- Material Filled year pages for 1927-1975.
- Summary Summed up the large content expansion.
- Illustrations Prepared year illustrations for 2007-2016.
- Material Closed missing-event gaps across 1927-2026.
- Work rules Changed the rule for finding important yearly events.
- Context Added culture, sport, and economy context for 1927-1931.
- Context Added culture, sport, economy, and infrastructure context for 1932-1939.
- Context Started deeper work on the wartime years 1939-1945.
- Planning Planned broader enrichment for year events.
- Context Published stronger wartime coverage for 1939-1945.
- Context Started deeper work on the postwar years 1946-1959.
- Illustrations Continued work on year illustrations for 1927-2006.
- Illustrations Refreshed the visual style for the 1980s.