| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| Group email: | European History group |
| When: | Monthly on Friday mornings 10:00am-12:00pm 1st Friday. September-July |
| Venue: | Abbot Hall Social Centre |
| Cost: | £2.00 each meeting |
We study the history of European countries. Last year we studied Bulgaria. This year we are going to study Finland
We will be discussing Finland from the arrival of the Finnish Tribes from east of the Urals, through its 600 years as part of Sweden and then 100 years as a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire through to it finally being a free country.
We will discuss its health system, education system and its place in European and world history along with arts and culture and commerce and industry.
Image credit: Helsinki Railway station Dennis Sylvester 2018. Flickr CC licence
Suggested reading and listening:
- A History of Finland by Henrik Meinander
- A Short History of Finland by Jonathan Clements
- The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot (the translation by Keith Bosley)
- Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna
- The works of Sibelius, Kokkonen, Aho and others