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This review essay evaluates the evolution of the Hungarian journal of social history, Korall társadalomtörténeti folyóirat (Coral: A journal of social history), founded in 1999 as a new forum of social history research. Korall promoted two distinct understandings of social history, stated only implicitly in the first years of the journal, but later elaborated more explicitely by the editors, as core definitions of their research programme. A first, narrow acceptation places social history within the field of (historical) sociology and favours structural approaches and concepts specific to the social sciences rather than the actual historical context. A second definition is wider, including a variety of topics such as environmental history, cultural history, economic, and demographic history, being meant to function as a powerful counter-discourse against positivistic, traditional and political-orientated history, still dominant in contemporary Hungarian historiography. Based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative content analysis, the review essay argues that, during its eight years of existance to date, Korall has undergone a process of internationalization. Although most articles published in the journal continue to focus on topics pertaining to the history of Hungary—especially during the "dualist period," 1867-1918—references to international events, authors, and theories have lately acquired a greater importance.

Opposition var den judiska arbetarrörelsen Bunds existensvillkor, men inte för oppositionens egen skull. Bund grundades i övertygelsen om att den judiska frågan endast kunde lösas genom den internationella arbetarklassens frigörelse från allt förtryck på väg mot en värld utan gränser av jämlikhet, välfärd och demokrati en socialistisk samhällsordning. Där skulle befolkningarnas breda lager styra, inte rabbinernas religiösa läror, kapitalistiska eliter eller kommunistiska partidespoter.00Men Bund tillhörde historiens förlorare. Den djupt och brett förankrade rörelsen krossades under terror och folkmord, skingrades i exil, drevs in i sitt skal av övermäktiga politiska krafter och undergrävdes genom assimilering när tiden gick och världen förändrades. Följande historia handlar om den processen på en plats i världens utkant.00I denna unika framställning återger Håkan Blomqvist ett i huvudsak okänt kapitel i både historieskrivningen om svensk arbetarrörelse och i svensk-judisk historia om den judiska flyktingmiljön i Sverige under och efter andra världskriget.00Håkan Blomqvist är författare, journalist och docent i historia vid Södertörns högskola. Han är författare till ett flertal uppmärksammade böcker

Abstract
This paper studies on multilingual administrative writing in Sweden during the early modern era of emerging national language ideology within the domain of court writing. The source material for this study consists of lower-court records from Finnish-speaking areas of the Swedish realm c. 1620–1700. The court system in Sweden was reformed in 1614 with the establishment of appellate courts that scrutinized the sentences passed by lower courts. Court records were written in Swedish, the official language of administrative writing of the period, but certain segments, notably represented speech, could be rendered in Finnish. This required textual mediation between the prescribed Swedish language of the court protocol, and the non-standard spoken Finnish in the courtrooms. The aim is to examine the embedding strategies, retention patterns, and textual mediation in the multilingual writing of 17th-century Finnish court scribes. The results show that Finnish is retained for especially pertinent or untranslatable witness statements. At the end of the 17th century, the use of parallel Swedish translations and clarifications to Finnish items increased. It is argued that this increase is due to the imposition of autocracy in 1680 and a concomitant push towards monolingual Swedish uniformity within the entire realm.