"The European Press and the Question of Norwegian..." Topic

… Independence in 1814.

"Having grown up in Askim, only a couple of cannon shots away from the battlefield of Langnes, where the final great violent confrontation between Norwegian and Swedish troops
took place on 9th August, 1814, I have been aware of this history for a long time. However, my real interest in this was awakened when a group of military history enthusiasts re-enacted the dramatic events of 1814 in August 2002. I covered the re-enactment for the local newspaper, Smaalenenes Avis, and earned my very first front page. Ten years later, I coincidently came across the 1814 volume of Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung and discovered that the battle of Langnes, among other events in Norway, was reported there. Through some further initial research, I found that the political events of 1814 in Norway had also been reported by a number of other non-Scandinavian newspapers. This would represent the beginning of an exciting research project that has now materialized in the form of this thesis…"

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