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Place of Birth: Huddinge Municipality, Sweden
About Dick Harrison
- Dick Walther Harrison (born 10 April 1966) is a Swedish historian who was born in Huddinge, Stockholm County, Sweden and spent much of his youth in Staffanstorp in Skåne.
- On 12 June 2010 he married Katarina Lindbergh in Kalmar Cathedral.
- He is currently a Professor of History at Lund University.His main areas of interest are the European Middle Ages, including the medical history of the period, and the history of slavery.
- Harrison regularly writes articles for the Swedish journal Populär Historia (Popular History).
- He has also written popular historical works and, during Spring 2010, a blog covering the history of monarchs and monarchies with emphasis on the Swedish monarchy.
- Harrison regularly gives lectures to the general public on a broad range of historical topics. Harrison is the editor-in-chief of a comprehensive series about Swedish history published by Norstedts with the first volume released in September, 2009.
- The Swedish TV channel TV4 has made a companion television series for which Harrison is the historical consultant and co-host along with Martin Timell.
- The TV series has 12 episodes of which the first six aired on TV4 during spring 2010.
- The second set of six episodes aired spring 2011. In addition to his historical writing, Harrison has written three historical novels about Ulvbjörn Vamodsson, a 7th-century (fictitious) warrior: Ofärd, Niding and Illdåd.
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