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Anne Thompson Melo

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Edinburgh-based translator (NL/DE -> EN) and museum volunteer. Peirene Stevns Translation Prize 2024

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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 18/08/2026
🌊 TODAY in San Francisco! Join us and @twolinespress.com at the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social for a conversation with author of SEA NOW Eva Meijer, translator @anne-t-melo.bsky.social and Gregory Hom at the SFPL Main Library's Koret Auditorium at 6pm: buff.ly/gGR7rLg
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SFPL On the Same Page presents Sea Now - CAT Center
As part of San Francisco Public Library's Everybody's Climate programming, Sea Now is the July-August selection for their bi-monthly featured book program, On
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 05/08/2026
“I loved the quirkiness of the text–the way it ranges from funny to unsettling and the way it switches between voices”, translator Anne Thompson Melo on translating SEA NOW, 2024 winner of @twolinespress.com’s & Peirene Press’s Stevns Translation Prize. Read the interview here.
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Sea Now: An Interview with translator Anne Thompson Melo - CAT Center
Set in a flooded Netherlands, Eva Meijer’s Sea Now follows three women who choose to stay behind as the ocean consumes their cities and memories. Traveling by
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Honoured to have been asked by @catranslation.org Journal to share some thoughts on translation in general and the joy of translating Sea Now: #Translation #LiteraryTranslation #SeaNow www.catranslation.org/journal/sea-...
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Sea Now: An Interview with translator Anne Thompson Melo - CAT Center
Set in a flooded Netherlands, Eva Meijer’s Sea Now follows three women who choose to stay behind as the ocean consumes their cities and memories. Traveling by
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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 31/07/2026
SEA NOW is sailing to the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social! Join us and @catranslation.org for an evening with Eva Meijer and Anne Thompson Melo in conversation with Gregory Hom on August 18 at 6pm. We'd love to see you there! 👋 🌊🛶 sfpl.org/books-and-me...
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
sfpl.org/events/2026/... Exciting Sea Now news!!! San Francisco Public Library have chosen the book as one of their On The Same Page reads and Eva and I have been invited over to talk about it. 18 August if you're in San Francisco 😊 #SeaNow #Translation #SanFrancisco
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Author: Eva Meijer and Anne Thompson Melo in Conversation with Gregory Hom
Author Eva Meijer and translator Anne Thompson Melo discuss Sea Now with Gregory Hom, a haunting work of climate fiction set in a submerged Netherlands. The novel follows three women who set out by bo...
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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 15/06/2026
Translators! Two Lines Press is now open for not one, but TWO submission opportunities this summer! We're looking for both general submissions and submissions for a new Calico featuring poetry and flash fiction about sex from June 15 to August 2! www.twolinespress.com/submissions
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Submit Your Work to Two Lines Press
View our submission guidelines for literary translations. We seek innovative, world-class fiction and poetry from around the globe.
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A fascinating period of history. Grippingly told
Cover of The Carnation Revolution (The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell) by Alex Fernandes
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I get there's always going to be some variation between dye lots. But how can these even be classed as the same colour? #KnittingWoes
A piece of knitting featuring yarn from two VERY different shades of  DROPS Snow, both labelled Hot Pink, one a lot hotter than the other
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Another Edinburgh craft class recommendation: Silverbean stacking rings and spinner ring workshops. Lovely, relaxed classes. And really happy with the results ❤️ silverbeanjewellery.co.uk #CraftClasses #Edinburgh
Left: silver spinner ring - thick, textured band encircled by 2 thin, spinnable rings, one in twisted wire and one beaded wire. Right: 2 silver stacking rings, one zigzag design, one hammered finish
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
nationalminingmuseum.com/whatson/belt... Tickets available now! Low-key Beltane event (music, bar, crafts, food) at National Mining Museum Scotland - 23 May, 6-9 pm #Beltane #Newtongrange
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Beltane Celebrations - National Mining Museum
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 14/04/2026
The Center for the Art of Translation is excited to announce the public phase of our $17M capital campaign to build a permanent literary and cultural center in downtown San Francisco steps from the Transamerica Pyramid. 🌁
Graphic featuring a rendering of our new building at the corner of Leidesdorff and Commercial in downtown San Francisco. Text reads: Opening 2027, Help open our doors.Graphic featuring the text: After 26 years, the Center for the Art of Translation is opening a permanent public home in San Francisco--affirming that writers and translators are essential to civic life and inviting readers to encounter the world and each other with curiosity and understanding.
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Hmm, Easter snow... #Edinburgh
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Festival of Europe Scotland @festivalofeurope.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE for Festival of Europe Scotland 2026!🎉Join us May 7-17 for inspiring talks, walks, debates, art, films & more to celebrate & strengthen connections between Scotland & Europe. Events in #Edinburgh #Glasgow #Stirling, #Kirkcaldy #Dumfries! Programme link in bio. Image: B Speed
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
National Mining Museum Scotland are crowdfunding to restore the Lady Vic winding engine (among other things). Sponsor a rivet for £25 or a brick for £100: nationalminingmuseum.com/ourfuture/ #ScottishMuseums #Heritage #MiningHistory
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Our future - National Mining Museum
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Push the Boat Out Festival @ptbopoetry.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
We're excited to announce that we’ll be expanding our online international programme! As well as continuing our workshops which have featured poets from around the world, we’re delighted to be launching a series of conversations between international poets and their English-language translators.
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
www.peirenepress.com/shop/books/s... Peirene Spring Sale now on! Get 25% off Sea Now
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Sea Now - Peirene Press
The country is flooding. Every day the sea claims another kilometre of land. The prime minister holds a daily press conference. Scientists try to find an explanation, without success. Sheep drown in t...
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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 05/03/2026
We’re pleased to announce that Ally Le is the winner of the 2026 Stevns Translation Prize! Congratulations to Ally and finalists Lukas Tuyet Tung, Nguyễn Thị Bích Trâm, and Chau Anh Nguyen.
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Corstorphine Window Wanderland 😍 #Edinburgh #WindowWanderland
Spotty socks and underwear on a washing line. Cat walking along washing line towards a birdAbstract stained glass design featuring shards of colourSilhouette of Edinburgh with colourful sky and owls in foregroundCross-section of a 4-storey Victorian house, with cook working in basement kitchen, servant in attic, woman sitting by fire and man at desk
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Made it to the final night of Giant Lanterns at the Zoo 😍 #Edinburgh
Lantern installation showing submarine surrounded by fish and sea plantsGiant lanterns - ship, waves and krakenGiant lanterns - cuttlefish and coralsGiant crab lantern with raised pincers and blue eyes
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Enlightenment at the McEwan Hall 😍 On till 22 March #Edinburgh
Light show patterning the already illustrated ceiling and walls of Edinburgh's McEwan HallCeiling of McEwan Hall with very large chandelier, illustrations and projected light show
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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Hopping on the back of this to highlight that the inclusion of Best Translated Novel in the recommended reading list this year means there is now also a Best Translated Novel category in the awards - so go forth and vote! Because if not enough people use the category, it might not be there forever.
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
NBCC member Catehrien Parnell reviewed "Sea Now," written by Eva Meijer and translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo, for MicroLit:
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“Submerged” a review of Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW by Catherine Parnell — BIRCH BARK EDITING
Sea Now  By Eva Meijer, translated from Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo Two Lines Press / Peirene Press, 2025 180 pages It’s abundantly clear that we, the inhabitants of Planet Earth, have created an untenable...
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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
What a profound deep thinker Eva Meijer is Eva’s book, for all the ecological devastation, there is some hope in it too And that’s something Eva had to discover in their own life… Find out why here 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Rum distilling experience at Sip Antics in the New Town this afternoon. Definitely recommend if you're in Edinburgh (gin and agave experiences also available) 😊 #Edinburgh #Rum
Mini copper still and jars of flovourings
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The Christmassy demise of the dinosaurs is almost complete... #AdventCalendar
Cardboard, slot-together advent calendar showing dinosaurs (one a day) in santa hats and carrying presents, in the shade of an erupting volcano
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
magicfest.co.uk/whats-on/ric... At the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, this coming weekend: The World's Most Boring Card Trick #Edinburgh #Magic
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Richard Wiseman – The World’s Most Boring Card Trick
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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.9: Niall Harrison
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2025 by Niall Harrison   When I sat down to think about the pleasures I gained ...
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is easily one of the best books I've read this year: haunting, smart, funny. Highly recommended.
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/it-was... Coming to the Filmhouse from Friday. Huge recommend. Soooo good ❤️ #ItWasJustAnAccident #Edinburgh
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It Was Just An Accident
Jafar Panahi’s critically acclaimed and deserving Palme d’Or winner is a muscular thriller and an engaging morality tale for our times. A minor traffic accident reunites two men with a shared past. O...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Like everyone else caught up in the Unbound “drama”, John Finnemore is working out what to do with a book that was terminated with incompetent prejudice by people who vanished. If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here! open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
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The Unbearable Torment of Bear Bear Bear
Concerning an unexpected window, an unchristmassy fuhrer, an unlucky publisher, and an unaware bear.
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=pu7S... Annual Xmas fitness recommendation 😁 Great music, a cheesy Last Xmas routine and a chance to tune into some Swiss German ❤️
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Unisport Online-Kurs Fitness Dance mit Claudia und Bayardo
YouTube video by Unisport Basel
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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup 📖 The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten 📖 Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann 📖 Iran+100, edited by various 📖 Sea Now by Eva Meijer #FictionFriday #BookchatWeekly
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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva Meijer
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
'...one if the unanticipated highlights of my reading year' 😍
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Eva Meijer's Sea Now tour gets underway in Edinburgh next Monday (1 December). I'll be joining Eva at Toppings for the first event (details at www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...). Eva will also be visiting Leeds, Exeter and London.
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Eva Meijer for Sea Now at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh
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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 04/11/2025
The 2026 Stevns Prize is open for submissions from now until February 1, 2026! www.stevnstranslationprize.com
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Push the Boat Out Festival @ptbopoetry.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Push the Boat Out 2025 is here! You can browse our programme, download a brochure, and book now 📣 🛶🎫 This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
Text over a pink and yellow background listing the headline acts for Push the Boat Out Festival 2025. Text reads: Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 20-23 November, plus pre festival events. Pleasance. Leena Norms * Hollie McNish *  Michael Pedersen * Luke Kennard * Tinderbox Orchestra * Anthony Anaxagorou * Hannah Lavery * Zinnie Harris * William Letford * Nick Makoha * Len Pennie * Karen McCarthy Woolf * Victoria Chang * Lorna Goodison
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Today's workshop recommendation: blackmithing with Sandy at Athelstane Forge in Newbridge. I made a bottle opener 😊 #Edinburgh #CraftClasses #Blacksmithing
A very clunky bottle opener, which probably isn't impressive without the 'before' pic I sadly didn't take when it was just a rectangular bit of metal
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @catranslation.org @twolinespress.com
 BOOK REVIEW“They—all of us—are way behind, stuck in the old, familiar, small ways of thinking and unable to grasp the vast changes going on around us. ”**"How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s 'Sea Now'"**by Rebecca Hussey. Image: Book cover, drawing of cow on top of rock on water.
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Ta-da!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 English translation of Eva Meijer's SEA NOW available now! Published by Peirene in UK and Two Lines in US. With beautiful covers 😍 by Jack Smyth and Jared Bartman. A huge thank you to everyone involved! 😊😊😊 #Translation #LiteraryTranslation #PublicationDay
UK cover for Sea Now - black outline of a boat, filled with waves, against a light blue background. US cover for Sea Now - a hairy coo stranded on a rock in the sea
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Surprising find of the day... #library #cataloguing
Title page of book Mining Physics and Chemistry by J W Whitaker (1921), with striking pencil portrait drawn inside coverInside back of same book with pencil sketch of Mickey Mouse
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Ceilidh at the National Museum of Scotland. #edfringe
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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🎪 The mayhem begins! Celebrate with us! Doors open at 10am at George IV Bridge (Edinburgh) and Kelvin Hall (Glasgow). Be among the first 500 at each site to get your special edition centenary comic, created by Beano! #NLS100 #Beano
A sign reading ‘It’s our birthday! 100 today’ in front of the National Library of Scotland building in Edinburgh.
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Whimsical title of the day... #library #cataloguing
Title page: Coal and its story: what it is, whence it comes and whither it goes. By Edward A Martin. Author of 'Dew-ponds', 'Life in a Sussex windmill' &c
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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Sunflower bud beginning to openSunflower bud revealing folded petals insideSunflower petals beginning to emergeSunflower in full bloom
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Well, Goose's Quizzes Elimination Game (@ Bijou) was a fun night out ☺️ #edfringe
Inflatable crown, mini burger jelly sweet, sticker and voucher
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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Our latest newsletter has just gone out. These will be weekly now that it’s only FIVE WEEKS until the festival. Don’t miss exciting updates about Spotlights, Pitch Perfect, McIlvanney Prize finalists and much, much more! Sign up here: bloodyscotland.com/mailchimp-si...
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
www.scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/... New joint exhibition - From Pit to Pitch - now open at the Scottish Football Museum and the National Mining Museum Scotland.
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From Pit to Pitch: A Story of Coal Seams & Football Dreams | Scottish Football Museum
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Anne Thompson Melo @anne-t-melo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
www.outoftheblue.org.uk/events/gretn... Gretna 110 exhibition and research room at Out Of The Blue Drill Hall in Leith until 24 May. Curated by the Royal Scots Regimental Museum. Remembering the 1915 Quintinshill rail disaster that resulted in the death of over 200 Royal Scots.
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| Out of the Blue Arts & Education Trust
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Lose yourself in this reading by translator David McKay, from Anjet Daanje's stunning novel THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER (@newvesselpress.bsky.social / @scribepub.bskysocial.com), an extraordinary love story & a captivating portrait of the power of memory and imagination. buff.ly/eF3Iio5
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