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 →
The Shadow in the East: An Interview with Aliide Naylor
"When Trump ascended to the US presidency I started looking more about what the division of the world into the great power blocs again might mean for the Baltic states"Continue Reading →
Visions of the Future from Interwar Kaunas
‘In the evening, when dusk falls over Kaunas, their colossal bronze heads are illuminated with powerful spotlights. From here, one can see all of Kaunas.’Continue Reading →