https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed In the 1930s, a devastating fire and a secretly kindled romance threatened to permanently engulf Gröna Lund Tivoli in Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20190523/secret-romance-fire-inferno-the-story-of-stockholms-grna-lund-ticks-all-the-boxes Thu, 23 May 2019 17:51:13 +0200 secret-romance-fire-inferno-the-story-of-stockholms-grna-lund-ticks-all-the-boxes From the early years of the Swedish mass migration in the 1850s to the dawn of the 20th century, travel across the Atlantic changed dramatically. https://www.thelocal.se/20190530/the-ships-that-carried-swedish-emigrants-to-north-america Thu, 30 May 2019 11:53:18 +0200 the-ships-that-carried-swedish-emigrants-to-north-america In the first half of the 20th century, Sweden implemented an unconventional campaign to transform it from a country with the lowest standards of housing in Europe to one of the highest in the world. https://www.thelocal.se/20190517/the-unusual-way-sweden-once-solved-its-housing-crisis-and-improved-living-conditions Fri, 17 May 2019 09:59:59 +0200 the-unusual-way-sweden-once-solved-its-housing-crisis-and-improved-living-conditions In early 1968, Sweden brought tensions with the United States to a head when it doubled down on its anti-Vietnam stance by granting asylum to four American military deserters. https://www.thelocal.se/20190502/the-controversy-that-brought-us-swedish-relations-to-the-brink Thu, 02 May 2019 13:51:49 +0200 the-controversy-that-brought-us-swedish-relations-to-the-brink Stockholm Olympic Stadium defied those who said Sweden wasn't advanced enough to host the Olympic Games in 1912, and has survived to become the world's oldest Olympic stadium actively in use. https://www.thelocal.se/20190425/how-swedens-olympic-stadium-defied-expectations-again-and-again Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:19:04 +0200 how-swedens-olympic-stadium-defied-expectations-again-and-again In 1949, a Swedish football player made international headlines when he dared to bare in Brazil. https://www.thelocal.se/20190411/the-day-a-naked-swedish-footballer-grabbed-headlines-in-brazil Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:32:51 +0200 the-day-a-naked-swedish-footballer-grabbed-headlines-in-brazil In the mid-1940s, a Swedish "farm girl" became a running-phenomenon, breaking world records and shattering gender barriers. https://www.thelocal.se/20190328/the-swedish-runner-who-smashed-records-and-gender-barriers Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:28 +0100 the-swedish-runner-who-smashed-records-and-gender-barriers Charles Lindbergh's 1933 visit to Sweden helps tell the story of how his grandfather fled the country 74 years earlier. https://www.thelocal.se/20190321/the-scandal-that-made-charles-lindberghs-grandfather-flee-sweden Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:59:59 +0100 the-scandal-that-made-charles-lindberghs-grandfather-flee-sweden The image of a tree in the middle of Drottningholmsvägen in 1916 tells of a world at war and a country on the verge of a major transformation. https://www.thelocal.se/20190314/the-tree-that-was-there-when-sweden-changed-for-good Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:59:59 +0100 the-tree-that-was-there-when-sweden-changed-for-good Dubbed the "Swedish Riviera", a beach in Skåne once attracted foreign royalty and tourists with the promise of abandoning conventional morality. https://www.thelocal.se/20190307/the-swedish-beach-that-was-the-ibiza-of-the-early-1900s Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:13:36 +0100 the-swedish-beach-that-was-the-ibiza-of-the-early-1900s The controversial 1960 marriage of a Swedish actress and an African-American celebrity still has much to reveal about racism and anti-Semitism in Swedish and world history. https://www.thelocal.se/20190228/the-celebrity-wedding-that-rocked-the-world-in-1960-throwback-thursday Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:59:59 +0100 the-celebrity-wedding-that-rocked-the-world-in-1960-throwback-thursday