Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 28, Spring 2025
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Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 28, Spring 2025
80th Anniversary of Albanian Liberation - to mark the anniversary, the Gazette republished “The New Albania”, written by Lovett F Edwards. Edwards visited Albania in December 1945, thirteen months after liberation. (This article was originally published in Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society.)
Aubrey Herbert and the “Other” Britain: A Turkish Perspective - John Watkins reports on a talk about Aubrey Herbert given by Vera Constantini, Associate Professor at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, at the Anglo-Turkish Society.
Spotlight on….Albania - John Watkins reports on a PROLang event about Albanology held at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Tribute - Michael Gunn - Vicky Gunn remembers her father Michael, AAA Board member, Albanophile and author of Historical Dictionary of the Albanian Tribes, Clans and Families.
Tribute - Lord Jacob Rothschild - James Pettifer remembers Lord Rothschild's leading role in setting up the Butrint Foundation.
Book review - Antonia Young reviews Kosovo: A Brief Chronology by Flamur Vehapi
TV review - Stuart Notholt reviews “Hoxha’s Bunker Madness”, an episode in Sky History's series, Dictators' Hideouts.
Music review - John Watkins reviews a concert by Swiss-Albanian singer, Elina Duni, and jazz guitarist Rob Luft.
Edith Durham: Explorer, Collector and Champion of the Balkans - Rachel Terry describes an exhibition about Edith Durham at Bankfield Museum, Halifax
The Forgotten Mosques of Albania - Edi Cika describes some of Albania's most important mosques.
Ismail Kadare in London - translator John Hodgson remembers accompanying Ismail Kadare on his only visit to England.
Was the pen mightier than the sword? Pasternak, Stalin and Mandelstam - Adam Yamey's personal perspective on Kadare's novel, A Dictator Calls
Letter from the Albanian lands - "Nevinson"
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