Get ready to join our festival of languages in Feb. Your pupils prepare a short piece in a language they're learning in school or speak in their community; you upload to social media. Starts 1 Feb. Find out more: https://t.co/Xev6hq2XRz
@ALL4Language, @ncle_ioe#mfltwitterati
Once a site of horror, a tiny Caribbean island could become a Garifuna shrine - if you want to find out more about the fate of the Garifuna, go to https://t.co/4VvnAxiZA7 https://t.co/SvjS0dfBU5
Congratulations to the Winners and Runner Ups of the Zoe Russell Prize 2024 for Most Improved First-Year in German Language. A big thank you to the Russell's who award this prize in memory of their daughter Zoe, now in its 21st year.
SV2G is delighted to announce that it has been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service. This prestigious award is equivalent of an MBE and is reserved for voluntary groups of the highest calibre.
#KAVS2024@LLBucks@KingsAwardVS@DCMS
I don’t want to delete this account as it started as a research project on Napoleon’s return to power. My work since with African Caribbean communities on Portchester castle puts me in a very different ideological space to X so I’ve fluttered elsewhere - hope to see you there.
In case you missed it ⬇️ @Lifelong_Ed published a new paper on incentivising the uptake of languages, with a Foreword by the APPG's Co-Chair Baroness Coussins.
It’s always great to have backstage tours of historic theatres - this time the Tyne theatre as part of an amazing vaudeville conference this week - thanks @DrHannahScott . More photos over on the blue&white butterfly site as I try to wean myself off X for political reasons..
This detailed report moves beyond our old slavery ports to show how provincial England & red brick universities connect to the transatlantic slavery economy. In #Nottingham, cotton, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, banking & slavery networks= key to this story
https://t.co/WMcjiMsXJa
Literary translator Rosalind Harvey was interviewed this morning on the BBC Today Programme following Dutch publisher VDK’s announcement that they are to 'use AI to assist in the translation of a limited number of books’.
Hear Rosalind's insights on BBC Sounds: https://t.co/evkNuzt4F3 and fast-forward to 2:49:31 (the last 10 minutes of the programme).
New exhibition at @EnglishHeritage Portchester Castle: Speaking to Maps is in the keep until December, showcasing a @photoworks_uk and @WarwickSMLC@BritishAcademy_ funded project with schools on the history of the Caribbean prisoners of war there. Photo credit Eva Louisa Jonas
1/ #threadstorytime#threadtolearn
RESISTANT.E.S CONTRE L'ESCLAVAGE - Jusqu'au 30/10, retrouvez dans les gares le portrait de figures des combats contre l'esclavage et pour l'égalité.
Thomas Alexandre Dumas, un général à la vie de roman ✊ À découvrir à Marseille Saint Charles
Significant, unnoticed, and unregulated. Frontline UK public service workers’ use of ‘raw’ AI translation is now widespread, exposing all parties to heightened risk.