Collecting Histories

Collecting Histories


Latest Episodes

Season 1: An Epilogue
March 10, 2020

In this short epilogue to Season 1, Klara reflects over the process of making a podcast from start to finish, and the feelings of letting a big project go.

Episode 5: Britain – Who?
March 03, 2020

English? British? From the UK? What are labels, why are they important, and who gets to use them? In this episode, we look closer at the names and words of a really complicated archipelago.

Episode 4: India – the Mother
February 24, 2020

How are narratives communicated to us? What do we actually feel pride towards? In this episode, we look at what symbols and devices propel national pride, specifically in India.

Episode 3: Sweden – the Hero
February 18, 2020

If a national narrative is imagined and constructed, then someone must have created it? In this episode, we look at some of the guys who were at the center of it all, as well as asks where on earth th

BONUS: Entitlement
February 10, 2020

In this bonus episode, Klara explores her uncomfortable feelings of overstepping boundaries of what is okay and not, and the complicated process of defining who is entitled to something.

Episode 2: United States of America – America the Coherent
February 03, 2020

Morale, success, and triumph. This is the story of pulled-up-by-the-bootstraps America, a nation with many formally distinct subsets. So why does everyone tell the same narrative?

Season 1: An Introduction
January 27, 2020

Throughout human history, stories have always been a thing that ties us together, helps us work together. In this episode, Klara explains her personal connection to stories as well as the history and

Episode 1: Argentina
March 22, 2019

Meet Sofia! Together we tell a story of indigenous, Spanish, populist and now frustrated Argentina.