Urban Diaspora - Diaspora Communities and Materiality in Early Modern Urban Centres

A grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research made the project "Urban Diaspora. Diaspora Communities and Materiality in Early Modern Urban Centres" possible. The project started in the summer of 2014 and the Danish Centre for Urban History was one of the partners. It was an interdisciplinary project covering archaeology, history, archaeobotany and zoology at both Danish and Swedish research institutions. One of the main tasks of the project was to shed a new light on the immigrant societies in Aalborg, Helsingør and Nya Lödöse. The project focused on primary research with the aim of providing new knowledge on immigrant societies in market towns and the establishment of the early modern Denmark prior to the nation state.