Here in the Research Portal you find information about my activities since October 2018. For previous activities and publications, visit jonasnordin.eu.

I am professor of book and library history since October 2018. I have a PhD in history from Stockholm University (2000).

From 2007 to 2018 I worked at Kungliga Biblioteket/The National Library of Sweden, conducting research and working on infrastructural matters. Among my projects there I am especially proud of the digitization of the master drawings and engravings to Erik Dahlbergh's Suecia antiqua et hodierna, a topographical work from the seventeenth century..

From 2016 to 2020 I led the research project "TTT: Medieval texts in context – then an now". The project involved some 250 old Swedish manuscripts and was a collaboration between The National Library of Sweden, Uppsala University Library and Centre for Medieval Studies at Stockholm University. The catalogue and digitized manuscripts were made available through the data base manuscripta.se.

I am also interested in freedom of the press in the eighteenth century. Currently, I am collaborating with historian Jesper Jakobsen on a study of the book market, censorship and freedom of the press in Sweden and Denmark between 1500 and 1800. (The Swedish Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 can be read in English translation here.)