The King’s City 1527—1630
The small city is a hive of feverish activity as the armed forces equip themselves; tax collectors, soldiers, the mayor and Russian merchants offering their wares.
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Capital City 1630—1720
The city was now to be gentrified. In Stockholm’s salons, the urban planners, civil servants and wealthy aristocrats meet, but the city is also home to the destitute, to refugees and victims of the plague.
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City of Commerce 1720—1860
We visit the gilded city where merchants become wealthy while ordinary people live out their brief allotted time.
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City of Industry 1860—1921
The city brims with people from the countryside. Once here, they become factory workers, draymen or perhaps deacons. They organise themselves in associations; to protest unjust employment terms, agitate for the right to vote or perhaps to promote sobriety.
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The Modern City 1921—1950
This is when Stockholmers become truly cosmopolitan; they discover jazz, the jive, sales assistants and norm violators.
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World City 1950—
Stockholmers can now enjoy years of record rises in living standards, with suburbs served by the Metro railway and rubbish chutes in residential buildings. However, their city will never be the same again. And what do those kids with green spiky hair really want?
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The Pihlqvist Family Home
At the very top of the Stockholm City Museum there is accommodation consisting of two small rooms. A family with two children lives here. The windows look out onto the building’s stairwell…
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