My essay for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on transnational links among fascist movements in the 1930s, and their legacies and lessons today:

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Event poster for 'T.S. Eliot's anti-Polishness: British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era' with a photo of T.S. Eliot quote in concrete, embedded in the ground on the Queen's Walk, near the Tate Modern Gallery.

Join us on Tuesday for the next Study of Central Europe seminar with @jcbretan.bsky.social to hear more about British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era.

🗓️ 27 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Event poster for 'T.S. Eliot's anti-Polishness: British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era' with a photo ofT.S. Eliot quote in concrete, embedded in the ground on the Queen's Walk, near the Tate Modern Gallery.

Please join us for the next Study of Central Europe seminar with @jcbretan.bsky.social to hear more about British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era.

🗓️ 27 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@annakoch.bsky.social

And ongoing links to the east today

Here’s a ‘Danzig’ chest in the Minster, from the 15th century

Weekend trip out: King’s Lynn. Here’s the Custom House, a building Nikolaus Pevsner called one of the most perfect ever built, and the Hanse House, the only Hanseatic building still existing in England. King’s Lynn was once a Hanseatic port, linked to the Baltic, trading fish, wood, grain etc

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Always forgetting to update Bluesky, so here’s me from just over two weeks ago, after passing my PhD viva (and buying a pierogi plush in celebration)

For #ModWrite this week, how about a ModRead? Our new Eliot Studies Annual is out now. Chew on these:
- Special forum: THE ELIOT WE NEED
Higher ed is collapsing, climate crises abound. Our Prez asks: "in what contemporary struggles could we enlist Eliot as an ally?"

Thrilled that my article on Eliot’s Polish plains has been published in The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

German and Soviet pavilions in antithesis - Paris International Exposition, 1937

‘I dropped a C-bomb into Tolstoy’: one man’s quest to translate War and Peace into ‘bogan Australian’ Melbourne man Ander Louis has translated hundreds of pages of the 19th century classic line by line to include Ford Falcons, wankers and drongos “Bloody hell, Prince Vasíli, Genoa and Luca are pretty much just Napoleon’s holiday homes now,” reads the opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s seminal epic, War and Peace. It goes on to depict a 19th century St Petersburg populated by “posh wankers”, “complete drongos”, “gorgeous sheilas” and “massive pissheads”. They “talk shit”, give “zero fucks” and drink “cuppas”, and before long, soldiers start “fanging about”. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

‘I dropped a C-bomb into Tolstoy’: one man’s quest to translate War and Peace into ‘bogan Australian’

Excited to be presenting a BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature tomorrow, ‘Tango Goes East’, on the story of tango’s musical journey eastwards to Poland and beyond.

Strange-looking pierogi at Warsaw diner (very good though)

First time in a Polish home and garden shop in the U.K. (in Nottingham). With signs and announcements in Polish.

A recent purchase: handbook of central and east Europe, from 1936

Staying in apartment goals in Warsaw

Kavka pickle cocktail :)

…the Free City of Danzig?

Lángos at Selwyn college 😍

My piece in @uk.theconversation.com on language and culture in Estonia:

The famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders Carol of the Bells was written in Pokrovsk, a key target for advancing Russian troops in Ukraine.

Our piece from Pokrovsk in Ukraine on the famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders. With Jonathan Beale, Hanna Chornous, Daniel Wittenberg, Anastasia Levchenko & Imran Ali.
#Ukraine #Pokrovsk #Christmas
www.bbc.com/news/article...