Populär Historia Explained

Frequency:Monthly
Category:History magazine
Company:Bonnier Group
Publisher:Bonnier Publications
Founded:1991
Country:Sweden
Based:Malmö
Language:Swedish
Website:Populär Historia
Issn:1102-0822
Oclc:1322199575

Populär Historia (Swedish: Popular History) is a monthly history magazine published in Malmö, Sweden. The magazine, which has been in circulation since 1991, is the first history-oriented periodical in the country.[1]

History and profile

Populär Historia was started in 1991.[2] [3] The founding company was Historiska Media.[4] The LRF Media acquired the magazine in May 2010 and owned it until 1 June 2016 when it was sold to the Bonnier Group.[1] [5]

The magazine is based in Malmö.[6] Since 2016, the magazine has been published by Bonnier Publications on a monthly basis.[7] [5] As of 2016, Jacob Wiberg was the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[8]

Populär Historia was the recipient of the Swedish Magazine Publishers Association's grand prize in 2004.[9]

In 2007, the majority of Populär Historia readers were men.[2] The circulation of the magazine was 22,300 copies in 2000.[1] The magazine sold 35,000 copies in 2009.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Monica Vinterek. Susanne Popp. Jutta Schumann. Miriam Hannig. Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe. 2015. Peter Lang AG. 295–318. Frankfurt am Main. 9783653052534. 10.3726/978-3-653-05253-4. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9hj7qx.14. The use of powerful men, naked women and war to sell. Popular history magazines in Sweden. j.ctv9hj7qx.14.
  2. Bodil Axelsson. History in Popular Magazines: Negotiating Masculinities, the Low of the Popular and the High of History. 10.25595/1497. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. 2012. 4. 2.
  3. Web site: Johan Jarlbrink. History and Web in Sweden. 30 July 2016. E-story.
  4. Book: Karl Erik Gustafsson. Per Rydén. A History of the Press in Sweden. 2010. Litorapid Media AB. Gothenburg. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150213232250/http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf. 13 February 2015.
  5. News: New Magazine Brands Acquired. Bonnier Group. 22 March 2016. 30 July 2016.
  6. Web site: Om Populär Historia. Populär Historia. 30 July 2016. sv.
  7. Web site: Marianne Sjöland. A Study of the History Writing of the Magazine Populär Historia and of Commercial Use of History. European Crossroads. 30 July 2016. 2011.
  8. Web site: Populär Historia. Sveriges Tidskrifter. 30 July 2016. sv.
  9. Web site: Alla vinnare. Sveriges Tidskrifter. 20 November 2020. sv. 7 October 2023.

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