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 →
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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 →
Stephan Collishaw: Turning Lithuania’s Troubled Past into Fiction
British author Stephan Collishaw has been closely involved with Lithuania since moving there on a whim in the mid-'90s.Continue Reading →
Fiction – The Song of the Stork
The Song of the Stork tells the story of Yael, a fifteen-year-old Jewish girl separated from her family on the Polish-Lithuanian border during World War IIContinue Reading →
Gatis Krūmiņš: Debunking Myths of Soviet Investment in the Baltics
Krūmiņš's calculations appear to show that, actually, Latvia – in common with all of the Baltic states – was a net contributor to the Soviet budgetContinue Reading →
Creators of Independent States: Latvia, Lithuania and Jelgava Gymnasium
The story of how a remarkable school in the southern Latvian city of Jelgava, became a place of disproportionate importance for two Baltic nations – not only Latvia, but also…Continue Reading →
“Ground” – Haunting Photos of Industry and the Baltic Winter
Ground is a cartographic project of sorts, one which points out transport arteries such as train tracks, roads, pipelines, high voltage transmission lines...Continue Reading →
How Baltic Refugees Returned from North American Exile to Lead their Countries
“My parents fled terror in Estonia in World War Two, which is why I have this accent.”Continue Reading →
Fiction – This Is Not My Sky
Hide and Seek; Būda, Lithuania; November, 1950Continue Reading →
Petras Cvirka – the Lithuanian Writer Lionised by the Soviets
Born into a poor farming family in 1909, Cvirka's tangled legacy forms a metaphor for all the paradoxes and complexities of the Soviet era in Eastern Europe.Continue Reading →
The “New Russian Empire” and the Baltic States: an Interview with Agnia Grigas
"Moscow has long relied on ethnic politics to achieve their aims of weakening and destabilizing their neighbours or newly conquered territories."Continue Reading →
“To Gain Knowledge, Go to Wilne”: A Walk Through Jewish Vilnius
In the 18th century the city was known as a religious centre and even called the “Jerusalem of the North”, despite anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish attacks.Continue Reading →