Hi everyone. I'm doing a personal project where I'm reading newspapers from Norway from 1814 "in real time" throughout 2025, and writing about what I find. I'm no historian and I realized that I know and understand far too little about what happened or why – the connection between the broader Napoleonic wars in Europe and what happened in Norway etc. I was interested in how people _at the time_ perceived what was happening, not just what we write in the history books today, and also all the little daily details, run away prisoners, prizes for best potato, books published, plays performed, old underwear collected to make paper… that gives a picture of life back then.
It's in Norwegian but you can use Google to read it in English. https://1814dagfordag.substack.com/p/plutselig-skjer-veldig-mye-pa-veldig
by houshuang
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Do your own homework
I think the average Norwegian understood and percieved very little of what was going on in the world in 1814.
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