Memory And Remembrance of The Early-Modern World – The Past In The Present-Day Finland

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Finland was a part of Swedish kingdom some 700 years during the Medieval and early modern periods, before 1809. The country became an autonomous Grand Duchy of Russia as a consequence of the Napoleonic Wars 1809. The Finnish senate declared country’s independence at the December 1917. The new country and the nation had a necessity to find its mnemonic traces of its’ own, the Finnish past. At 1800s, some few monuments, or memorials, were erected in Finnish towns. However, after the independence, there was a memorial boom to erect monuments and, thus, to create the public narrative of the nations past in the contemporary present. In this paper, we will discuss how and what kind of past was created through different kind of memorials and monuments at the 1920s and 1930s. These monuments were, especially, adducing local memories of the prominent historical figures, battles, and other topics in different locations.

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