The purpose of the book project is to give Simrishamn a jubilee book for its 900-year anniversary in 2023. Equally as important is to try a new approach in our ambition to write a city monograph. An oral history, to capture the city’s history through narrative stories. To achieve this goal, the editorial team has gathered a somewhat atypical group of participators such as a genealogist, a local historian, a journalist, a photographer with knowledge of local history and more typically a historian and an archaeologist.