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Interdependent living: labouring families and the Swedish mining industry in the late seventeenth century

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Pages 136-155 | Received 01 May 2015, Accepted 14 Oct 2016, Published online: 25 Nov 2016

Archival sources

  • Bergsbruk: Salbergets räkenskaper 1533–1620 [Mining: Sala silver mine]
  • Bergskollegium [Swedish Board of Mines], Accounts & Court records
  • Hovstallet [The royal stable], Accounts
  • Lantmäteristyrelsens arkiv [National survey board], Maps
  • Mantalslängder 1642–1820 [Poll tax registers]
  • Riksregistraturet [Royal registry]
  • Rydboholmssamlingen [Rydboholm estate archive], Accounts
  • Strömsholms slott [Strömsholm palace], Accounts
  • Svea Hovrätt [Swedish Court of Appeal], Court records
  • von Hermanssonska arkivet, Inventories
  • Landsarkivet i Uppsala [Regional State Archives in Uppsala]
  • Bernshammars bruk [Bernshammar iron works], Accounts
  • Björnhyttans masugn [Björnhyttan blast furnace], Accounts
  • Gunnilbo kyrkoarkiv, [Gunnilbo church archive], Parish registers, Probate inventories, Transcriptions
  • Horndals bruk [Horndal iron works], Accounts
  • Länsstyrelsen i Västmanlands län [County administrative board in Västmanland], Taxation records
  • Ramnäs bruk [Ramnäs iron works], Accounts
  • Sala gruvrätt [Sala mine court], Court records
  • Heimbygdas deposition [Heimbygda local heritage society]
  • Ljusnedals bruks arkiv (LBA) [Ljusnedal copper works], Accounts, Records & Transcriptions
  • Vikens Gårdsarkiv [Viken farm archive]
  • Salbergets arkiv [Sala mine], Accounts

Printed sources

  • Kongl. stadgar, förordningar, privilegier och resolutioner, angående justitien och hushållningen wid bergwerken och bruken, med hwad som ther til hörer både inom och utom bergslagerne uti Sweriges rike, och ther under lydande provincier, uppå kongl. may:ts allernådigste befalning, til almän nytto och efterrättelse [Royal regulations, ordinances, privileges and resolutions concerning the justice and economy of mining and metalworks…]. (1736) Stockholm.

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