Previews of Baltic Screen Week in London
This week in London, Baltic View is putting on a series of films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Previews and trailers here.Continue Reading →
A City with a VD Problem: Policing Prostitution in Tsarist Tallinn
Second only to the capital of St Petersburg in incidence of syphilis and gonorrhoea, Tallinn outranked much larger cities in the Russian Empire in terms of infection.Continue Reading →
Being Non-Binary in a Language Without Gendered Pronouns – Estonian
Gendered languages pose problems for identity expression. But what about genderless languages? Does Estonian offer a natural home for the nonbinary?Continue Reading →
Reading Between Kopli's Lines: Exploring Tallinn's Vanishing Slum
"For the adventurer, photographer, urban explorer or historian, Kopli Lines are a beautifully preserved window into the past."Continue Reading →
Lichen – Adam Cullen
If I had a car/ if we had time/ I'd take you/ first to a ferry/ and then/ over sea/ island-bound...Continue Reading →
A Minnesotan Writing in Estonian: An Interview with Adam Cullen
"Something to be preserved at all cost is the connection to this place – that’s the reason it’s Estonian literature, and not Latvian or French literature."Continue Reading →
Estonian Film Music: A Tasting Menu for the Autumn
"All the songs I’m offering here have been used in classic pieces of Estonian cinema, old and new..."Continue Reading →
Naissaar: the Estonian "Island of Women" Once an Independent Socialist Republic
"They announced the creation of an independent socialist republic, the Soviet Republic of the Sailors and Builders of the Fortress of Naissaar Island"Continue Reading →
Deep Baltic Podcast – Eesti
DB's editor Will Mawhood is joined by Tallinn-based David Edwards and Stuart Garlick for a discussion about identity and how the country is changing.Continue Reading →
Higher Education in a Post-War Refugee Camp: The Baltic University
"He was truly amazed, if not perhaps shocked, that people, refugees, were not only thinking of creating a university, but were actually organising it."Continue Reading →
Pagan Faith, Accelerated Technology: A Walk on Estonia's Muhu Island
Organised religion, imported by a series of invaders and occupiers, was never able to fully repress pagan traditions in Estonia.Continue Reading →
How the Children of Baltic Refugees to Britain are Rediscovering their Roots
"When my grandfather died, my father stopped speaking Latvian... he had no-one to speak to"Continue Reading →