I am a professor in History at Lund University. My research focuses on culture, gender and social history, in the period from the 1700s to the early 1900s. I have written several biographies. "Wives and Young Ladies in the Middle Classes in southern Sweden 1790-1870" is my doctoral thesis (1996), then followed by the "Conditions of Love. Three women 1780-1880" (1998), and "Sophie Elkan. Her life and friendship with Selma Lagerlof" (2001). They has a gender perspective. The latter is a biography. "In the Whirls of Dance. Dance and play in Swedish History" (2004) is cultural history, and "Oscar I"(2007) and "Charles Swartz" (2010) are biographies. 2012 "The Cathedral in Lund" was published, written by me and Anita Larsson. In 2016, I published "Women's voices. Female lives from the rise of the modern Sweden." In 2023 "Hedvig Eleonora" (a swedish queen,1636-1715), was published.