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The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully packed away. Yet musically the prising open of a vault can prove a cacophonous and contentious affair. What should be scrapped or saved for posterity, who gets...

Everything on this side of death was the purview of the Vita Duvan, which opened in the northern coastal city of Luleå in 1856 as Sweden's only true panopticon prison. The concept was devised in the eighteenth century by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham who envisioned the panopticon as a means of reform and rehabilitation as well as control:...