Blanche Gamond: the 1689 manuscript of a young woman’s story

Literary and historical researchers often uncover fascinating characters and forgotten documents.

Thanks to languages

Lady Ricketts, née Suzanne Horlington, reflects on the role of languages in her life from her Oxford degree to the British Embassy in Paris and beyond

Remembering Rio

Fond memories of a recent year abroad

The boisterous world of the Rostocker Liederbuch

Songs from a medieval university act as a backdrop to a year abroad and lead to a modern publication

Tuning into Polyglot radio: Fascist Italy, Imperialism and the Wireless World

Musings whilst researching a thesis on Bringing Imperial Rome to life in the Wireless World: Radio, Nationalism and Spiritual Imperialism in Fascist Italy

Peace Amidst Chaos

An Oxford Student on Ukrainian and Russian Conversations and Texts

From the literal to the literary: creative translation

A recent graduate has just spent a year working with an Oxford team bringing inspiring methods for language learning to schools

Celebrating a forgotten feminist writer

A DPhil student helps bring Georges de Peyrebrune back into the limelight