The Train Station Ateljee: Stumbling Across Estonia’s Distant History
Somehow, this display has affected me more than all the statues I’ve seen in city centres all over the world, names carved in marble.Continue Reading →
Red Courland: A Guide to the Revolutionary Relics of Kuldīga
“In this building in Autumn 1905 was based the Kuldīga Revolutionary Committee”Continue Reading →
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 →