It’s a wet, midweek October morning in Copenhagen, and I’m heading by taxi to a cinema in the trendy Norrebro district – all young people on bikes, juice bars and artful graffitti. I’m here for the ...

Claudia reads to the baron for the last time, Didrich taunts Peter, and Inge and Sofia arrive back at the manor Spoiler warning: this blogpost contains references to episodes five and six of 1864 on ...

The television series 1864, directed by Ole Bornedal and based on books by historian Tom Buk-Swienty, has followed The Killing and Borgen in becoming a successful Danish export. But 1864 is neither ...

American Civil War Battle, Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864 The Union won the U.S. Civil War Battle in Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864, although Union Major General James B. McPherson was killed.

The latest Scandi drama takes us back into Denmark’s past and the build up to the second Schleswig war between the Kingdom of Denmark and the German Confederation ...