Gothenburg's 1968 receives new funding

The projekt "Gothenburg's 1968 - A working-class city in movement" has received new funding from the Anna Ahrenberg Fund to continue collecting and processing interview material on 1968 activists in Gothenburg. The project is a collaboration between KvinnSam and the Department of Historical Studies at GU.

Thus far, the project has collected 24 interviews with activists, and the team is currently working with transcription and additional interviews. Project researchers are also working on editing a number in the journal on "New perspectives on Sweden's 68," scheduled for publication in 2027. We will also be presenting the paper Arbetarhistoria "The gendered labor of movements: 1968 in Gothenburg" at the European Labour History Network i Barcelona in June of 2026. Additionally, we have also created a wandering exhibition on the project and the archives.

The project aims to create a new archive from the voices of Gothenburg's 1968 activists, which lifts the relationship and overlaps between the personal and the political. The archive will eventually contain over 100 interviews with activists, alongside traditional archival material like meeting notes, photography, magazines, and more.