Linking and supporting Scandinavian societies
Since 1950
Linking and supporting Scandinavian societies
Since 1950
Linking and supporting Scandinavian societies
Since 1950
Linking and supporting Scandinavian societies
Since 1950
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Since 1950
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CoScan Magazine is published twice a year.

As well as information about our member organisations, it contains articles on Scandinavian topics of general interest, and reports by our Travel Awardees. We welcome submissions: please send to magazine@coscan.org.uk

The main content is listed for each issue, excluding recurring items such as books and travel reports. See the magazine’s Contents page for more information.

2026/1

  • Anglo-Finnish society
  • Norwegian Study Centre
  • Livery Companies of London
  • Scandinavian material at the Brotherton Library
  • Sylvia Pankhurst’s Scandinavian Journey 1913
  • Global warming in the North Atlantic
  • Oxblood, a film with a message

2025/2

  • CoScan meetings
  • The Embassy of Iceland, London
  • A first Lucia—half a century ago
  • Trelleborgs (Viking ring fortresses)
  • Anna Boberg and the Art of the Arctic
  • The Åtvidaberg Sun Cannon
  • British ladies travelling in Finland in the 1890s

2025/1

  • CoScan meetings
  • Anglo-Danish Society’s Centenary
  • 50 Years of SKOL
  • The Renaissance of YASS
  • Mark Elliott
  • Karl I - the first, the last, the never King of Finland
  • Why Greenland is part of Denmark
  • New Danish royal coat of arms

2024/2

  • CoScan meetings
  • Den Norske Klub
  • Danish Church in London autumn 2024
  • Nordic House/Danish Church in Hull 70-years
  • Piet Hein
  • London in the 1890s
  • Illustrating children’s books
  • Iceland, a country of storytellers

2024/1

  • CoScan meetings
  • Royal Golfing Society
  • BV Society/Bärsärkar och Vikingar
  • Finland and the Crimean War
  • Happiness in the North
  • ABBA Museum, Stockholm
  • Standing as a Royal Guard

2023/2

  • CoScan meetings
  • Devon & Somerset Anglo-Scand. Soc.
  • Viking Society for Northern Research
  • Anglo-Swedish Society of Gothenburg
  • Odin and the hunt for Denmark's past
  • Old Norse in the English landscape
  • The Norn language
  • Behold the Swede - a technocreature
  • Briefly on Finland
  • The Danish author Knud Sørensen

2023/1

  • CoScan meetings
  • Swedish-English Lit. Translators’ Assoc.
  • Scottish Society for Northern Studies
  • New runic find in Norway
  • Viking-Age hair combs
  • Sweden 500 years old
  • Retracing Heroes of Telemark mission

2022/2

  • CoScan meetings
  • SveaBritt and YASS
  • Scandinavian links with Ukraine
  • Överhogdal tapestries, historic and new
  • SkandiKitchen
  • Vikings at York

2022/1

  • CoScan AGM
  • Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland
  • Grieg Society of Great Britain
  • Nordic collections at British Library
  • Horneman's opera Aladdin
  • Living with two languages

2021/2

  • Member organisations and the pandemic
  • Understanding Scandinavian place-names
  • Danish pension
  • The world’s biggest sandcastle
  • Ærø (island of romance; renewables)
  • Radioactive reindeer!
  • Norway – Christmas trees to UK
  • Notes from ‘Sverigeloppet’ (bike ride)

2021/1

  • CoScan (personal memories)
  • Anglo-Swedish Society of Gothenburg
  • Northants Anglo-Scandinavian Society
  • Henrik Pontoppidan, the Danish author
  • Queen Anna of Denmark, Part 2
  • Norwegian memories from WWII
  • Conference report ('Viking things')

2020/2

  • Virtual meetings: Award ceremony; Drinks party; AGM;
  • SveaBritt; Consulate of Sweden in Newcastle;
  • Anglo-Swedish Society
  • When Dickens met H.C. Andersen
  • Aksel Sandemose
  • Queen Anna of Denmark, Part 1
  • Jenny Lind; Pippi and the Moomins

2020/1

  • CoScan 1950-2020
  • Obituaries: Peter Wright, Lise Newsome
  • Lisbet Rausing (CoScan awardee 2019)
  • Manch. Swedish Meetup Group & Covid-19
  • Stevns Klint (Danish World Heritage site)
  • New interpretation of the Rök runestone
  • How to make a Dala horse
  • Full-sized Viking ship replica being built

2019/2

  • CoScan International Award 2019
  • Queen’s Award to ONFA
  • Anglo-Swedish Society 100 years
  • Norwegian Church in Cardiff 150 years
  • The Hanseatic League and its legacy
  • The Crimean war & cholera in the Baltic
  • A Renaissance love story; Hurtigruten
  • Out-of-date travel guides

2019/1

  • Danish Scottish Society
  • Danish Women’s Association
  • Grundtvig’s near scandal escape
  • Nordenskiöld as environmentalist
  • Swedish women’s voting rights
  • Danish soldier graves in Beverley
  • Urkult (a cultural festival); Viking roadshow
  • Birka, the Swedish Viking town

2018/2

  • International award 2018: Sakari Oramo
  • Anglo-Norse Centenary reception
  • Orkney Norway Friendship (ONFA)
  • Norwegian Church; Finnish Church
  • Storyteller Flemming Kloster Poulsen
  • Mary Wollstonecraft re Denmark
  • Gammalsvenskby; Projects in Dumfries
  • Iceland: Centenary of indepencence

2018/1

  • Anglo-Norse Society; Anglo-Swedish Society; Welsh Norwegian Society
  • Doggerland
  • Harnessing wind energy (Denmark)
  • Holger Danske
  • Medieval church-paintings
  • Ingmar Bergman and Birgit Nilsson
  • Viking Hiking

2017/2

  • Anglo-Finnish Society: Conference on Finland 100
  • Swedish Church in London
  • Grieg Society 25 years
  • Finland’s 100th anniversary
  • English military graves in Falkenberg, Sweden
  • Scandinavian family research
  • An evocation of Orkney (book extract)

2017/1

  • CoScan International Award 2017
  • Viking Society for Northern Research
  • Finnish conductors – a success story
  • ARSNY, a Viking camp near York
  • Reading the runes
  • English soldiers' burial grounds in southern Denmark
  • St Magnus of Orkney, 900th anniversary

2016/2

  • Scottish Norwegian Society (Glasgow)
  • Norwegian Church in London
  • Cities of Culture 2017: Hull and Aaarhus
  • Moesgaard Museum
  • New Swedish saint
  • Sisu

2016/1

  • Devon & Somerset Anglo-Scandinavian Society, Danish KFUK (London), Danish Church (Hull)
  • Danish architecture
  • Soprano Ylva Kihlberg
  • Viking winter camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire
  • Biathlon in Oslo

2015/2

  • Danish Church (Hull), Orkney, Anglo-Swedish, Finn-Guild
  • St Gregory's Minster in Kirkdale
  • Viking navigational instruments
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • Finnish sauna
  • Danish folk songbook

2015/1

  • Anglo-Norse (London, Oslo), Orkney, SKOL, Sibelius, Nordic Horizons
  • Finnish Ambassador P Huhtaniemi
  • Finnish tango
  • Danish folk songbook
  • Viking navigation
 

2014/2

  • Scottish-Finnish, Danish Church (London), Scottish-Norwegian (Glasgow)
  • News in brief (societies)
  • Christmas: Santa/tomte
  • Guest: Prof R Jenkins 'Being Danish'

2014/1

  • Anglo-Danish, Manchester
  • News in brief (societies)
  • Guest: Canon J Toy on St Sigfrid

2013/2

  • Hampshire, Nordic Studies/Sheffield, Anglo-Swedish
  • Christmas food and drink
  • Guest: Prof P Fjågesund 'Marketing Norway'

2013/1

  • Norwegian-Scottish (Edinb), Danish Cultural Institute, Danish Church (Hull)
  • The New Nordic Food
  • Guest: Dr R Ogden on Nordic swearing

2012/2

  • Hertfordshire, Scottish-Norwegian (Glasgow)
  • Vikings/festivals
  • Guest: E Martinus on Strindberg

2012/1

Northants, Grieg, Orkney
Midsummer/Sankt Hans
(also as celebrated among our societies)
Guest: Prof S Bradley on Grundtvig

2011

  • Newcastle, Midlands, York
  • Publications by societies and 'dates of birth'
  • Coscan International award
  • Christmas in Scandinavia
  • Guest: Dr P Addyman on Jorvik