Sofia Hoas works as a Project Manager and Culture Heritage Advisor at Gotlands Museum, at Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. She talks to us about the museum and its most popular exhibits, including Viking picture stones and hoards of buried silver, and the best ways to get kids interested in history. She also talks us through the incredible and unique mass graves of the Battle of Visby where a ragtag army of farmers and peasants were slaughtered outside the city walls by an invading force of highly trained Danish and German mercenaries. These 1,800 skeletons, uniquely (and mysteriously) buried in their armour, provide a plethora of fascinating insights into life in the 14th Century and the individuals who lost their lives on that bloody day. Sofia also tells us the fascinating story of Gammalsvenskby, a Swedish village established in the late C18th deep in the heart of what is now Ukraine, and which has suffered terribly during the recent Russian invasion.

A link to the organisation for whom Sofia also works providing humanitarian aid to the Swedish village in Ukraine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/112974547294

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