Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 20, Summer 2022

Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 20, Summer 2022

1922-2022: a centenary of UK-Albanian bilateral relations – in this edition, we continue our celebration of UK-Albanian bilateral relations with four items on a UK-Albanian theme.  

Albania: The Balkan Pivot - Stuart Notholt discusses the growing importance of Albania to its western allies.

Monitoring Radio Tirana - John Hodgson recalls the days of the Cold War when he was employed by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) to monitor Albanian media.

Albania and Albanians through British Eyes, Part 1 - Albanian language students at SSEES  present a series of profiles of British travellers to Albania. In Part 1, Joan Pearce and John Watkins profile Edward Lear, Edith Durham and Aubrey Herbert.

Albanian Philately and the UK - Rodney Oliver lists some of the British personalities who have been pictured on Albanian stamps.

Tirana Pride: “We are Family” - Luke Dowding describes how Albania’s increasingly visible LGBTQ+ community celebrated Tirana Pride.  

Book review - Joanna Hanson reviews Free - Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi.

Exhibition review - Richard Hargreaves reviews Petrit Halilaj’s Very Volcanic Over This Green Feather at Tate St Ives.

A Scottish Highland Clan with Albanian Ancestry - according to Michael Gunn, DNA evidence might suggest that legendary Scottish knight, Humphrey of Kilpatrick had Albanian ancestry.

In Cornwall, two heads are better than one - Adam Yamey discusses two Cornish families - the Killigrews and the Godolphins - who have a double-headed eagle as their symbol.

A Response to Ann Christine Eek’s photos of Kosovo - after seeing the photos, Malcolm Boorer was reminded of his own visit to western Kosovo in 2003.

Letter from the Albanian lands - “Nevinson”

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