Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 22, Spring 2023
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Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 22, Spring 2023
Flag Day celebrations in London - a report on a special Albanian concert at St Augustine’s School in Kilburn to mark the 110th anniversary of Albanian independence.
Remembrance Day, Tirana - a report on the ceremony attended by British Ambassador Alastair King-Smith and German Ambassador, Peter Zingraf.
Book review - Joanna Hanson reviews Like a Prisoner - Stories of Endurance by Fatos Lubonja.
John Hodgson translated Like a Prisoner - Stories of Endurance. Here he gives a personal insight into working with Fatos Lubonja.
Book review - Antonia Young reviews No Man’s Lands: Eight Extraordinary Women in Balkan History by Elizabeth Gowing and Robert Wilton.
Dick Caton Woodville: British artist at a pivotal point in Albanian history - Kate Holman tells the story of artist and writer Richard (Dick) Caton Woodville who visited northern Albania in the 1880s and made a series of remarkable engravings.
Virtual Art Show, Tirana - Carolyn Perry is given a tour of Tirana’s GaleriaKalo showcasing contemporary Albanian art.
Butrint Through Artists’ Eyes, Part 1 - Professor Ferid Hudhri describes some of the earliest paintings and engravings of Butrint from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
A Child of Two Worlds: Albania’s Mushroom-Shaped Bunkers - Emily Glass argues that the Albania’s communist-era bunkers are an important element in the landscape and deserve state protection.
Letter from the Albanian lands – “Nevinson”
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