Latest Through the Looking Glass
May 12 2012 - 07:27
Fondly remembering Denmark’s favourite criminal family ahead of the release of their new film, this time in 3D, next year
May 6 2012 - 06:40
Forget about the Roskilde Festival being uncivilised – a royal peace offering in the city in 1157 led to a barbaric showdown between the country’s three kings. Svend lied, Knud died and Valdemar (only just) survived
Apr 28 2012 - 07:16
James Cameron, the creator of the 1997 Oscar winner ‘Titanic’, partly based Kate Winslet’s role on a young Danish survivor of the 1912 disaster
Apr 22 2012 - 07:26
Not everyone surrendered quietly to the Nazis during Denmark’s Occupation of the 1940s. The Fiil family of Jutland made the ultimate sacrifice – a story that has become a domestic film hit
Apr 14 2012 - 10:17
Without the ‘founding father’ of this country’s history, we’d know a lot less about Norse mythology and Shakespeare would have never written ‘Hamlet’
Apr 8 2012 - 09:11
Denmark’s answer to Harvey Milk died last year aged 96, less than a year before the legalisation of gay marriages
Mar 31 2012 - 07:07
To coincide with the release of the new Danish film ‘En Kongelig Affære’ on Thursday, we take a closer look at the infidelity that threatened to bring down the establishment
Mar 24 2012 - 07:38
Enigmatic like the subjects of his paintings and celebrated in the modern age like very few others, Vilhelm Hammershøi’s “foetuses in alcohol” have found new life in the 21st century
Mar 17 2012 - 07:27
It was Niels Bohr’s broad shoulders that the members of the Manhatten Project stood on to create the first atom bomb – conversely, though, he didn’t approve of its devastating use
Mar 11 2012 - 08:00
The first, the third, the last, the children’s … and now you can add the Danish, even if there were concerns over whether Denmark’s 12th century war with the Wends had any religious motivation whatsoever
Mar 4 2012 - 07:17
February marked the centenary of the maiden voyage of the world’s first diesel-powered ocean liner, from Copenhagen’s B&W shipyard to Bangkok
Feb 25 2012 - 23:00
Astronomer Ole Rømer’s list of achievements is enough to fill ten lifetimes, let alone one. He discovered the speed of light, vastly improved Copenhagen’s infrastructure, introduced temperature, measurement and weight systems, never stopped inventing, and even found time to be a policeman
