Registration for the Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026 is open! Colloquium will take place on 2-4 September at the University of Nottingham. Register by ✨23 August✨: tinyurl.com/2s3mc2bb

❗❗❗Webinar today! ❗❗❗ The History of English Language Education (HELE) Webinar Series today welcomes Prof Luciana Pedrazzini, who will give a talk entitled “The Italy ELT Archive: Investigating History of English Textbooks in Italy”. Find out more below!

📚Foreign Language Teaching in Italy: Innovation and tradition in ELT in the 1960s-1990s 📚 Read a post by Luciana Pedrazzini on the website of the project English at a time of transition (1970-1990) in Catalonia. anglescatalunya1980.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/f...

🥁🥁🥁New post on our website!🥁🥁🥁 We start the new year by looking back to one of the main events of 2025, the International Inter-Association Conference on the History of Language Learning and Teaching (ICHoLLT) in Como. Check out the post to read about two presentations related to the IELTA project.

📣📣📣 Dear Bluesky folks, with my colleague Eva Skopečková (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) we’re organising Seminar 1 at the 2026 ESSE conference! 📣📣📣

📄Two new research articles about the Italy ELT Archive out now! 📄

It’s a wrap! Many thanks to the Organisers at the University of Insubria for this year’s ICHoLLT! It’s been a great event, and a true pleasure to attend so many inspiring paper presentations!

🌥️The sun is finally shining on the first day of ICHoLLT 2025 and we are looking forward to more interesting talks today!🌥️

We are live from the PCE of ICHoLLT 2025 dedicated to PhD students and ECRs, with many thought-provoking presentations and lively discussions

⏳Three more sleeps until ICHoLLT 2025 in Como!⏳ But don't miss the PCE event on 3 June dedicated to PhD Students and ECRs! Our own @manutenca.bsky.social will be there to talk about the design and development of IELTA. www.uninsubria.eu/sites/sten/f...

A presentation of our archive was published in the #IRCDL2025 proceedings. It features some formal considerations behind the project, notably an analysis of representation of the book sample. ceur-ws.org/Vol-3937/#pa... The report is written by @mapto.qoto.org.ap.brid.gy and @manutenca.bsky.social.

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

📣📣 New post on our website! 📣📣 Read about the invited talk given by prof. Luciana Pedrazzini (our PI) at the international seminar "A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language teaching" held in Barcelona on 8 January! italy-elt-archive.unimi.it/a-sociolingu...

Why – and how to – incorporate practitioner research into language teacher education? Two responses here: 1) Recording of an inspiring session on preservice teacher education: youtu.be/VTEwv0wFVXo?... 2) A short article I wrote for the British Council: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional...

The IRCDL 2025 Conference is kicking off in Udine today, and we can’t wait for @mapto.bsky.social 's presentation tomorrow, introducing our Archive and showing ways it can be used for research purposes! 📚🧑‍💻📚 ircdl2025.uniud.it #IRCDL2025 #digitallibraries #digitalhumanities

The Italy ELT Archive is an open access database of ELT materials published in the 20th century targeting Italian learners of English. 🇬🇧🌎📚🇮🇹 Visit our website to find out more about this project conducted at the University of Milan! italy-elt-archive.unimi.it