Insomnia: The Latvian Novel Unpublishable Under the Soviets
"The novel Insomnia ... possesses no artistic quality of any kind. In reality it is not a novel, but a pamphlet hostile towards Soviet rule."Continue Reading →
Meming in a Minority Language: Young Latgalians and the Internet
Recent research has given an overview of what young Latgalian-speaking people want to see and hear online in their languageContinue Reading →
Latgalian: How the Language of Eastern Latvia is Being Revitalised
Latgalian is the mother tongue of around 164,000 people. Historically subject to restrictions and stigmatisation, now a new generation are reviving their languageContinue Reading →
Verilaske: In Search of a Bloodletting Estonian Village
“I have lived here all my life, and I’ve never been to Verilaske... maybe people who go to Verilaske never return."Continue Reading →
How Lithuanians Conquered the World: The Case for a Migration Museum
Those who left made a tremendous impact globally, and without them, there may never have been the Beatles or Bob DylanContinue Reading →
An Eccentric Cold War Education: Revisiting the Lithuanian Gymnasium in Germany
"Perhaps we did not have science labs then, or a proper gym, or even art classes, or music — other than someone cranking out polkas on an accordion... Yet I…Continue Reading →
Fiction: Saulius Šaltenis – Diary of a Jewish Girl
Esther Levinson is being sheltered by a Lithuanian couple, Vladas and Milda, who have renamed her Eliza and are passing her off as their nieceContinue Reading →
Searching for Nikolajs Hercbergs: the Mystery Man Who Photographed Riga
Nikolajs Hercbergs took thousands of pictures of Latvia's capital during the interwar years for reasons that are still unclearContinue Reading →
Sillamäe: Inside a Former Soviet Secret City in Estonia
Sillamäe was a ‘closed city,’ often referred to by codenames and guarded within a military perimeter – often it didn’t even appear on maps.Continue Reading →
Riga’s Cholera Curves: Visualising Past Pandemics
Riga's urban geography provided clues to the links between environmental conditions, social inequalities and public healthContinue Reading →
The Steps We Took to Remember: Lithuanian Dancing in Postwar Britain
“This festival,” wrote my mother, “is a means of promoting understanding and reconciliation amongst all the European countries who suffered so much during the War years.”Continue Reading →
Absences and Reminders: Searching for Soviet Statues in the Baltics
"While some cultures go to great lengths to eradicate reminders of their unwanted past, others are willing to let them slowly disintegrate"Continue Reading →