Welcome to my blog. This is where I ponder all things European, while the world changes around us.
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Heather was a Librarian at Loughborough and Derby Universities before doing a PhD at Nottingham University and becoming a Lecturer in European and Global Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
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Stronsay: An Adventure, June/July 2022
I don’t know how we ended up on Stronsay – it was an accident and an adventure. I’d wanted to see the Orkney islands for a while. We hadn’t had a holiday for 3 years because of Covid and Mum dying. I think I idly started googling cottages and found Mingro on Stronsay. I didn’t …
The Nottingham Memory Wars continue
This is turning into an annual event, as the time of year rolls round when I teach module EURO30605 Memory & Identities in European Culture, thinking about the way that the Spanish Civil War and its International Brigade volunteers are remembered. 2021 will be a very different year. Under Covid restrictions, we can’t make the …
The Nottingham International Brigades memorial – corrections and memories
It’s a very long time since I’ve posted here, but in advance of another visit to the International Brigades memorial at Nottinghamshire County Hall, I thought I’d add a few more thoughts and clarifications. When I made the original post, I claimed that when the memorial was first installed in 1993, it ‘did not immediately …
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