Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 21, Autumn 2022

Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 21, Autumn 2022

AAA Annual General Meeting, September 2022 - a short report  

1922-2022: a centenary celebration of UK-Albanian relations - this edition includes six items on a UK-Albanian theme. 

British Week in Albania - Carolyn Perry reports on some of the events showcasing British culture.

“Hats off to you All!” - Donika Bardha pays tribute to the Butrint Foundation and Archive founded in 1993.

Getting to Albania 7 - Gillian Gloyer, author of the Bradt Guide to Albania, looks back to the first edition of the guide, published in 2004.

Albania: forty years on – in May 1981, Linda Christmas joined a Regent Holidays tour to Albania. She returned forty years later, in May 2022, to see how the country had changed.

Albania and Albanians through British Eyes, Part 2 - Albanian language students at SSEES  present a series of profiles of British travellers to Albania. In Part 2, Joan Pearce and John Watkins profile Agnes Ethel Conway, Jan and Cora Gordon, Stuart E Mann and Bernard Newman.

“China, Taiwan, and … Albania” - Stuart Notholt reviews Albania’s complex diplomatic relationship with the People’s Republic of China.

Albania and Kosovo at the Venice Biennale 2022 - Adam Yamey enjoys a small exhibition of work by Albanian painter Lumturi Blloshmi (1944-2020) and Kosovar artist, Jakub Ferri

Film review - Fjoralba Miraka reviews Looking for Venera (2021) directed by Norika Sefa. The film describes how teenager Venera tries to make an independent life for herself in a small village in Kosovo.

Postage in Albania 1912 - Adam Yamey finds a copy of Stanley Gibbons Prices Catalogue of Stamps of Foreign Countries, 1912, with a section on Albania.

Letter from the Albanian lands – “Nevinson”

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