The Peace Is Deceptive: the History of Riga's Hippest Street
The history of Miera iela is proof of the legend that Riga will never be complete.Continue Reading →
A Colourful History in Monochrome: Interwar Lithuanian Adverts
The book Interwar Lithuanian Advertising collects many of the most striking, colourful or simply strange examples of adverts produced in the Republic of Lithuania in the interwar period.Continue Reading →
Back to Shul: Capturing the Uses of Lithuania's 100 Former Synagogues
"I visited and photographed former synagogues in 59 Lithuanian towns, villages and cities whose contemporary uses include churches, funeral parlours, shops, hairdressers..."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 →
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 →