One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship. Apply before Oct. 1st! Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

Published today! The largest chapter we've ever written - by far. It has taken so many years to research and write. Much information here about the #BelgianRefugees in #Barmouth and #Tywyn. Take a wander along the Cambrian Coast here: refugeesinrhyl.wordpress.com/cambrian-coa...

On asylum moves in the spending review today: Steve Smith, CEO of Care4Calais - “Moving from former commercial hotels to accommodation situated within communities would be welcome, but what the Government really needs to end is the for-profit asylum accommodation model that has created billionaires"

I never had to look for this in libraries or archives as several copies have been available all along. But now that I managed to get a copy myself I was surprised to see the size of the Report. Sassoon paperback just for comparison.

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University 👉Sign the petition: chng.it/K2zRY6Jqqt 👉Share the petition with family/friends/networks. 👉Send emails outlining your objections. For details and templates visit the website: www.stopcutsinmlatbangor.uk/home/

#New #OpenAccess “L‘Internationale on the move: Case studies on the world’s most translated anthem” In Chronotopos: A Journal of Translation History, 1/24, p. 163. chronotopos.eu/cts/issue/vi... @chrisdec71.bsky.social

“I woke up with a sense of dread…” A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇

Sign to ban conversion therapies / Signa contra les teràpies de conversió / Firma contra las terapias de conversión citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

Breendonk, de nacht van 7 op 8 mei @danyneudt.bsky.social

Poste de professeur.e adjoint.e en traduction à l’Université Laval. Date limite pour postuler : le 28 avril 2025. Voir le lien suivant pour de plus amples détails : www.rh.ulaval.ca/emploi/HCM/9...

✅ It's good to hear Chancellor Rachel Reeves say a better trading relationship will be a key part of the UK-EU relations reset. Our research shows closer alignment on goods and services could help boost the UK economy by 2.2%. Now let's see these words put into action.

Cuts to disability benefits would be catastrophic. Join @scope and add your name to show the Government we will not tolerate further cuts. Save our lifeline 📢 t.co/nXmbQb35Hm

@jorgediazcintas.bsky.social @abolgaresc.bsky.social @rbanos.bsky.social

Supporting the Women in Parliament All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG). The event was full of energetic passionate women of all ages. We in UK need more women Parliamentarians!

Two new chapters published today! Both concern the area once known as Maelor Saesneg in north-east Wales. The country estates took in some noble families from Belgium - tinyurl.com/saesneg and one family of #BelgianRefugees who came to Penley stayed and made a life here: tinyurl.com/famdoex

A hard-headed case for careful, accountable decisions on defense spending. Security includes digital & energy security. & most of all this entire project will fail & boost the far right if Labour tries to pay for it from cuts to public services & welfare. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ON FALLING the new film from the Ken Loach & Sixteen Films team Out in Cinemas March 7th (early tickets here: conic.film/films/onfalling) The film is about precarity, exploitation and loneliness in the modern world. Please share and help us get the word out.

There's a really interesting report on Milford Haven's #BelgianRefugees on the Western Telegraph website. Includes photos. Have a look! www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/2495411... @westerntelegraph.bsky.social

Sign now to stop Modern Languages at Cardiff University being axed. chng.it/dngVCLSSLc

The fall in international student numbers is putting fragile university finances under further pressure. The Observer reports a new study from @britishfuture.bsky.social showing most of public would not want to see a drop in students to cut immigration numbers www.theguardian.com/education/20...

'the humanities are relevant and they matter...They matter as we consider climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, poverty, the values we hold, & what kind of society we want to be.' We've launched a new #OpenAccess series, Humanities Futures: uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...

🚨NEW 🚨 On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join us in writing a complaint to Ofcom to force them to take action 👇 t.co/3b5UH9zuOR

Research fellow post at @uclgeography.bsky.social in the area of #Cartography #ParticipatoryMapping #GIS for communicating Environmental and Health Crises, with @sartemi.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Fabulous opportunity!

It was great to have the chance to work on this with so many great stakeholders who work at the coalface of crisis and community issues. The open-access paper and model are at this link: incontextjournal.org/index.php/in...

CenTraS’ first online Lecture of 2025 will be delivered by Dr Rasheed Abdul Hadi. Entitled ‘A wartime interpreter’, book the event online: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... 24 February 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm.

Nu de regering-Trump hard ingrijpt in de wetenschap als die volgens politici de verkeerde woorden gebruikt, en nu het duidelijk is dat grote Amerikaanse bedrijven door de knieën gaan en het nieuwe regime steunen, wordt het belangrijk om keuzes te maken. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/02/waar...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Job klaxon! Come and work with us as Manager of the Digital Humanities Research Hub in the School of Advanced Study, University of London @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

PRESS RELEASE: Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, 3 times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. At this pace, we won’t see 1 trillionaire in a decade, but 5. oxf.am/TakersNotMak... #WEF2025

What a way to start the weekend! Thank you @lousem.bsky.social and team!

What a place for a project meeting #allypally

🔥 On Wednesday, a YOUTH MOBILITY SCHEME with the EU will be debated in Parliament! Write to your MP to demand they attend.

Quite the way to start the (working) weekend: my Xmas present from my daughter has arrived🤘

Always a delight to be in Ieper. Representing the ahrc project Asylum: Refugees and mental health, tappimg into plans for the Displaced exhibition, subsequent international conference, publications, outreach activities and more.

With its detailed profiles and high-quality photos of the refugees, the police register illustrates how migration, much like translation, is a transformative process that reshapes linguistic spaces and redefines language and identity during times of crisis and conflict. #translation #migration

First BlueSky Thread of 2025: Before Christmas, our Honorary Research Fellow @chrisdec71.bsky.social appeared on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...), discussing a remarkable police register from the First World War. The register contains details of 1,000 Belgian refugees.

Stationary bike reading is not a resolution, but as open.spotify.com/playlist/4Mt... was playing I started reading "Translation, migration and hospitality" by Stefania Taviano. So a few thoughts from www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... :

In 1914, around 250,000 Belgian refugees came to England. So many settled in the small town of Letchworth, the district was renamed “Little Antwerp” and Belgians had their own horse flesh shop. www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/hert...

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

This new paper by Caltech and UC Riverside (UCR) scientists tries to quantify the public health implications of AI, and it’s pretty devastating. ChatGPT might cost us a lot more than just our data. NB: It’s a pre-print. arxiv.org/abs/2412.06288

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Interested in becoming a translator for the EU institutions? Deadline for applications is 14 January. eu-careers.europa.eu/en/translato...

Eugene Van Fleteren was a Belgian Refugee who carved the chair for the Birkenhead Eisteddfod in 1917, Hedd Wyn's iconic Gadair Ddu. But we found a collection of bardic chairs carved by another Belgian Refugee, Emile De Vynck. See the Belgian Bardic Chairs here: refugeesinrhyl.wordpress.com/chairs/

Here's an important petition from @sascampaigns.bsky.social on banning bail out of water companies. Why should we keep paying them to do a very bad job? Please sign! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...

Left my eu-uk converter on the train to Cardiff yesterday, ran out of juice when I had to be online for a student this morning. Borrowed charger on the way back to London today. Then looked at Ifor ap Glyn's latest reworking of our conference paper for tomorrow.

A brand new chapter published today - all about the Belgian Soldiers at Brynkinalt Military Hospital and the #BelgianRefugees who stayed in Chirk. We've had loads of help from Mireille in Belgium and Lady Trevor at Brynkinalt Hall. Have a look: refugeesinrhyl.wordpress.com/brynkinalt/