Digitised archive: Kvinnliga Medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad
With funding from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, KvinnSam and the Digitisation Team at Gothenburg University Library have digitised the archive of the Kvinnliga Medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad, which is now available online.
The following text is a brief summary of a news article published on the KvinnSam website.
Kvinnliga Medborgarskolan was founded in 1925 with the aim of educating women in citizenship after the introduction of suffrage. Just in time for the school's 100th anniversary, the archive has been made freely available thanks to a major digitisation project at KvinnSam.
The archive of the Kvinnliga Medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad is of particular significance in terms of how women understood and worked to enter the public discourse in Sweden in the years following the success of the suffrage movement in 1919.
The project has generated over 600 documents and nearly 20,000 digital images of course brochures, minutes, course registrations, songs, library catalogues, photographs and more.
The project, which runs until the end of May 2026, continues the work of digitising photographs, enriching metadata, transcribing documents and creating resources to make the project more accessible on KvinnSam website.
- We have previously joked that all roads in the archives lead to Fogelstad, but it is also true. So much of the women's movement in Sweden during the 20th century has its origins in Fogelstad, so it's great that the archive is now freely available for everyone to explore,’ says AnnaLena Bergquist, project manager and deputy director at KvinnSam.
Read the full article on the KvinnSam website.
The school's founders, the so-called constellation.