Historia med Johan Romin

Min senaste video handlar om Sturemorden, som inträffade den 24 maj 1567, då sammanlagt sex personer mördades på order av kung Erik XIV.
Tre av de mördade tillhörde den högadliga familjen Sture:, Svante Sture, Nils Sture och Erik Sture. Svante var son till den legendariske riksföreståndaren Sten Sture den Yngre.
Efter morden 1567 försökte Erik XIV gottgöra Svantes hustru Märta, som alltså var änka och mamma till de mördade, med silver som motsvarande en stor summa pengar. Men men detta silver blev istället det som kom att bekosta det uppror som ledde till avsättningen av kungen.
Här nedan följer bilder. Och se videon!
Ställ gärna frågor om ni vill!
Det här är en 1800-tals-målning över Uppsala slott där Sturemorden skedde.
Erik XIV, kung av Sverige 1560 - 1568
Johan III, som grep makten 29 september 1568

Kläder som Sturarna bar då de blev mördade. Idag förvaras de i Uppsala domkyrkas museum.
Svante Sture tillsammans med sin dotter Katarina
Erik Sture
Nils Sture



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Jag gör ett besök i Strängnäs och den plats där Gustav Vasa blev vald till kung den 6 juni 1523. Men hur gick det egentligen till?
english introduction:
How Gustav Vasa Became King of Sweden
On 6 June 1523, Gustav Eriksson Vasa was elected King of Sweden in Strängnäs. But the election was not a carefully planned ceremony—and Gustav Vasa was not even present when it took place.
Sweden was still fighting to break away from the Kalmar Union. Stockholm and Kalmar remained under the control of forces loyal to the deposed Danish king Christian II. Gustav Vasa’s rebellion had depended heavily on money, weapons and professional soldiers supplied by the powerful Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Lübeck now wanted guarantees. It expected repayment of its loans and freedom from Swedish customs duties. Supporting Gustav Vasa as king was one way to secure those promises—and also to prevent the new Danish king, Frederick I, from restoring the union under his own rule.
The exact location of the election is uncertain, but it probably took place outside Strängnäs Cathedral. Gustav Vasa waited nearby in Roggeborgen while the Swedish nobles chose him as king.
Lübeck may have believed that Sweden’s new ruler would remain dependent on them. History would soon prove otherwise.
Watch the video to discover how an improvised meeting in Strängnäs helped create an independent Swedish kingdom.


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Hallå, nya och gamla följare! Nu blir det en nystart av Substack!
På kort tid har jag fått ett stort följarantal för mitt historiska content.
På TikTok följer 10 000 mig och motsvarande siffra på Facebook är snart 30 000!
Väldigt roligt!
Mitt mål just nu är att jag ska kunna ägna en vecka i månaden åt att besöka historiska platser och berätta om vår svenska historia för er.
Därför har jag startat en Swish som går till mitt företag. Här kan man skicka en slant som jag sedan använder till att bekosta resor. Mitt första mål är att filma runt Bohus fästning och berätta om borgens historia på plats. Då kommer vi komma in på kungar som Magnus Eriksson och Albrekt av Mecklenburg och andra. Ett av Nordens främsta kulturarv.
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I work with history and communication at one of Sweden's largest museums, the Cultural History Museum in Lund in southern Sweden. One of Sweden's largest? Calculated in terms of exhibition space and number of objects in the collection, it is one of the biggest, even though Kulturen is a regional museum.
In a museum, the museum's various historical objects are always being moved. As an employee, I have the opportunity to go behind the scenes and film some of the unique items and show you.
Here is a video of the items moved right now:
Gun powder horns from the 1600s and 1700s.
Right now, a weapons transfer is underway. Out of several hundred rifles, pistols, bayonets, armour, yes even a mine from the Second World War are to be moved to better premises that are climate-adapted for museum purposes.
The objects to be moved are photographed and cataloged and then packed into special boxes to preserve them for the future. Now is the chance to take pictures of the weapons before they are packed away!
The other day it was time for the museum's gun powder horns to be packed down and I was there to film this.
Powder horns were used to keep the gun powder for the rifle dry. From the beginning, hollowed-out horns from deer or cows were used, then you also got a practical spout that could be used when the gunpowder was poured into the muzzle-loaded rifle. Over time, powder horns began to be manufactured in ivory or some other exclusive material, to eventually also become mass-produced in metal.
The powder horns were often very richly decorated, and since it was the highest social class that engaged in hunting, they were expensive and fine powder horns that also showed material status, much like wearing an expensive watch today.
The museum has hundreds of powder horns like this.
Here is a video with some examples. It begins with the powder horn that Karl XII's soldiers during the Great Nordic War had in the field between 1700 and 1718. Interesting to see that they used the kings name as a “brand” for the army not a national flag. It was the king you were loyal to, the king who also participated in the fighting.
Here is the video!
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I have traveled to Gaza three times and met with several of the groups that later participated in the October 7 attack on Israel. I met Hamas leaders and fighters/terrorists to listen what they had to say about the conflict with Israel.
In 2015, I filmed a reality series that was broadcasted on Swedish TV and in that show a group of militant men were interviewed.
The bakground and context was this:
Listening to this interview today, knowing that this group participated in the killing of Israeli civilians last October is both scary and horrifying, but especially knowing the Oct 7 attack, you realize that they were relatively open all along with what they were up to .
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