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Christophe Declercq

@chrisdec71.bsky.social
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Wie hier is, is van hier, en dus niet daar. UU (NL), but also UA (Bel) and UCL (UK). Displaced by Brexit. Still on X as @chrisdec71 (dormant) and @belgianrefugees (increasingly sleepy).

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship. Apply before Oct. 1st! Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
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Fellowship Programme | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...
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Belgian Refugees in Rhyl @refugeesinrhyl.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Published today! The largest chapter we've ever written - by far. It has taken so many years to research and write. Much information here about the #BelgianRefugees in #Barmouth and #Tywyn. Take a wander along the Cambrian Coast here: refugeesinrhyl.wordpress.com/cambrian-coa...
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Along the Cambrian Coast
The coastal area of the former county of Meirionydd hosted many Belgian Refugees, primarily in Barmouth where at one time it was reported that there were over 400 – so many so that the town n…
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
On asylum moves in the spending review today: Steve Smith, CEO of Care4Calais - “Moving from former commercial hotels to accommodation situated within communities would be welcome, but what the Government really needs to end is the for-profit asylum accommodation model that has created billionaires"
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I never had to look for this in libraries or archives as several copies have been available all along. But now that I managed to get a copy myself I was surprised to see the size of the Report. Sassoon paperback just for comparison.
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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University 👉Sign the petition: chng.it/K2zRY6Jqqt 👉Share the petition with family/friends/networks. 👉Send emails outlining your objections. For details and templates visit the website: www.stopcutsinmlatbangor.uk/home/
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Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University
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History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#New #OpenAccess “L‘Internationale on the move: Case studies on the world’s most translated anthem” In Chronotopos: A Journal of Translation History, 1/24, p. 163. chronotopos.eu/cts/issue/vi... @chrisdec71.bsky.social
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“I woke up with a sense of dread…” A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇
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Letter: We are not strangers
Letter to the editor
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Esther Monzó-Nebot @monzoneta.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Sign to ban conversion therapies / Signa contra les teràpies de conversió / Firma contra las terapias de conversión citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
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Initiative detail | European Citizens' InitiativeEnglish
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Breendonk, de nacht van 7 op 8 mei @danyneudt.bsky.social
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Lynne Bowker @bowkerl.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Poste de professeur.e adjoint.e en traduction à l’Université Laval. Date limite pour postuler : le 28 avril 2025. Voir le lien suivant pour de plus amples détails : www.rh.ulaval.ca/emploi/HCM/9...
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Professeure ou professeur en traduction
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/03/2025
✅ It's good to hear Chancellor Rachel Reeves say a better trading relationship will be a key part of the UK-EU relations reset. Our research shows closer alignment on goods and services could help boost the UK economy by 2.2%. Now let's see these words put into action.
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Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Cuts to disability benefits would be catastrophic. Join @scope and add your name to show the Government we will not tolerate further cuts. Save our lifeline 📢 t.co/nXmbQb35Hm
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
@jorgediazcintas.bsky.social @abolgaresc.bsky.social @rbanos.bsky.social
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Supporting the Women in Parliament All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG). The event was full of energetic passionate women of all ages. We in UK need more women Parliamentarians!
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Belgian Refugees in Rhyl @refugeesinrhyl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Two new chapters published today! Both concern the area once known as Maelor Saesneg in north-east Wales. The country estates took in some noble families from Belgium - tinyurl.com/saesneg and one family of #BelgianRefugees who came to Penley stayed and made a life here: tinyurl.com/famdoex
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The Country Estates of Maelor Saesneg
Maelor Saesneg, or “Flintshire Detached” was an exclave of Flintshire County that was completely separate from the main body of the county, and surrounded by Denbighshire, Cheshire and Shropshire…
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A hard-headed case for careful, accountable decisions on defense spending. Security includes digital & energy security. & most of all this entire project will fail & boost the far right if Labour tries to pay for it from cuts to public services & welfare. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Keir Starmer, you claim huge and damaging cuts are vital so we can buy arms and defend ourselves. Prove it | Owen Jones
Splurging the cash is not the answer to Europe’s security jitters. Let’s ignore the hyperbole and decide what’s actually needed, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ on X: "SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: https://t.co/VfjNTiNZpS" / X
SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: https://t.co/VfjNTiNZpS
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Sixteen Films @kenloach16films.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
ON FALLING the new film from the Ken Loach & Sixteen Films team Out in Cinemas March 7th (early tickets here: conic.film/films/onfalling) The film is about precarity, exploitation and loneliness in the modern world. Please share and help us get the word out.
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Belgian Refugees in Rhyl @refugeesinrhyl.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
There's a really interesting report on Milford Haven's #BelgianRefugees on the Western Telegraph website. Includes photos. Have a look! www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/2495411... @westerntelegraph.bsky.social
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Remembering a Pembrokeshire town's hidden past with Belgian refugees
This week, Jeff takes a look at when Milford Haven welcomed Belgian refugees during the First World War
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Steph Connor @steph-connor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Sign now to stop Modern Languages at Cardiff University being axed. chng.it/dngVCLSSLc
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Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The fall in international student numbers is putting fragile university finances under further pressure. The Observer reports a new study from @britishfuture.bsky.social showing most of public would not want to see a drop in students to cut immigration numbers www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Fall in overseas students fuels threat to English universities despite rise in fees
Higher tuition costs have already been ‘wiped out’ by government tax hikes, critics claim
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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
'the humanities are relevant and they matter...They matter as we consider climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, poverty, the values we hold, & what kind of society we want to be.' We've launched a new #OpenAccess series, Humanities Futures: uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...
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Call for proposals: Humanities Futures book series - University of London Press
We are delighted to announce the details of our exciting new book series, Humanities Futures, and to invite book proposal submissions.  Humanities Futures is a new book series that advocates powerfull...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 07/02/2025
🚨NEW 🚨 On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join us in writing a complaint to Ofcom to force them to take action 👇 t.co/3b5UH9zuOR
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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Research fellow post at @uclgeography.bsky.social in the area of #Cartography #ParticipatoryMapping #GIS for communicating Environmental and Health Crises, with @sartemi.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Fabulous opportunity!
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Federico M. Federici @fmfederici.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It was great to have the chance to work on this with so many great stakeholders who work at the coalface of crisis and community issues. The open-access paper and model are at this link: incontextjournal.org/index.php/in...
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A Crisis Translation Maturity Model for Better Multilingual Crisis Communication | INContext: Studies in Translation and Interculturalism
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Centre for Translation Studies UCL @centras-ucl.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
CenTraS’ first online Lecture of 2025 will be delivered by Dr Rasheed Abdul Hadi. Entitled ‘A wartime interpreter’, book the event online: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... 24 February 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm.
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Dr Rasheed Abdul Hadi - A wartime interpreter
Join us and Dr Rasheed Abdul Hadi for this CenTraS Talk - ‘A Wartime interpreter’. In this talk, I will shed light on my experience working as a freelance war interpreter and translator during and in ...
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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Nu de regering-Trump hard ingrijpt in de wetenschap als die volgens politici de verkeerde woorden gebruikt, en nu het duidelijk is dat grote Amerikaanse bedrijven door de knieën gaan en het nieuwe regime steunen, wordt het belangrijk om keuzes te maken. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/02/waar...
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Waarom vertrouwen we Amerika?
Nu de regering-Trump hard ingrijpt in de wetenschap als de wetenschap volgens politici de verkeerde woorden gebruiket, en nu het duidelijk is dat de grote Amerikaanse tech-bedrijven allemaal door d…
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Job klaxon! Come and work with us as Manager of the Digital Humanities Research Hub in the School of Advanced Study, University of London @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
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Hub Manager:London Senate House - Hybrid
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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
PRESS RELEASE: Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, 3 times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. At this pace, we won’t see 1 trillionaire in a decade, but 5. oxf.am/TakersNotMak... #WEF2025
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What a way to start the weekend! Thank you @lousem.bsky.social and team!
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
What a place for a project meeting #allypally
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🔥 On Wednesday, a YOUTH MOBILITY SCHEME with the EU will be debated in Parliament! Write to your MP to demand they attend.
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Quite the way to start the (working) weekend: my Xmas present from my daughter has arrived🤘
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Always a delight to be in Ieper. Representing the ahrc project Asylum: Refugees and mental health, tappimg into plans for the Displaced exhibition, subsequent international conference, publications, outreach activities and more.
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Centre for Translation Studies UCL @centras-ucl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
With its detailed profiles and high-quality photos of the refugees, the police register illustrates how migration, much like translation, is a transformative process that reshapes linguistic spaces and redefines language and identity during times of crisis and conflict. #translation #migration
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Centre for Translation Studies UCL @centras-ucl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
First BlueSky Thread of 2025: Before Christmas, our Honorary Research Fellow @chrisdec71.bsky.social appeared on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...), discussing a remarkable police register from the First World War. The register contains details of 1,000 Belgian refugees.
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BBC One - Antiques Roadshow, Series 47, Antiques Roadshow at Christmas, WWI Belgian Refugee Photo Album
We uncover more about an photo record from the Cardiff Docks in the First World War
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Stationary bike reading is not a resolution, but as open.spotify.com/playlist/4Mt... was playing I started reading "Translation, migration and hospitality" by Stefania Taviano. So a few thoughts from www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... :
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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
In 1914, around 250,000 Belgian refugees came to England. So many settled in the small town of Letchworth, the district was renamed “Little Antwerp” and Belgians had their own horse flesh shop. www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/hert...
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The Belgian refugees who came to Letchworth during the First World War
A extract taken from
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...
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Thirsty data centres are making Europe’s dry summers even drier
Data centres are estimated to use more than a billion litres of water a day. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This new paper by Caltech and UC Riverside (UCR) scientists tries to quantify the public health implications of AI, and it’s pretty devastating. ChatGPT might cost us a lot more than just our data. NB: It’s a pre-print. arxiv.org/abs/2412.06288
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monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
www.monabaker.org/2024/12/10/s... @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social @fruela.bsky.social @nvp-tdi.bsky.social @bowkerl.bsky.social @sharonblack.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social @transla-tian-ology.bsky.social @mattvaller.bsky.social @andreaciribuco.bsky.social @cmymtl.bsky.social @jossmo.bsky.social
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Study Grants for Students from Gaza, Mona Baker
The university of Bologna is offering grants to students from Gaza to study in Bologna.
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John Evans @johnevans75.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Interested in becoming a translator for the EU institutions? Deadline for applications is 14 January. eu-careers.europa.eu/en/translato...
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Translators into DA, EL, EN, ES, FR, IT, MT and NL | EU Careers
Do you have a passion for languages? Are you ready to start an international career in a multicultural and diverse team? If so, read on.
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Belgian Refugees in Rhyl @refugeesinrhyl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Eugene Van Fleteren was a Belgian Refugee who carved the chair for the Birkenhead Eisteddfod in 1917, Hedd Wyn's iconic Gadair Ddu. But we found a collection of bardic chairs carved by another Belgian Refugee, Emile De Vynck. See the Belgian Bardic Chairs here: refugeesinrhyl.wordpress.com/chairs/
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The Belgians and the Bardic Chairs
Belgian wood-carvers made a significant contribution to our cultural life in Wales. From creating what is probably the most iconic Bardic Chair to filling our churches and country estates with carv…
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Here's an important petition from @sascampaigns.bsky.social on banning bail out of water companies. Why should we keep paying them to do a very bad job? Please sign! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...
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Ban the Bailouts
The Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. Help stop this scandal, before it’s too late.
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Left my eu-uk converter on the train to Cardiff yesterday, ran out of juice when I had to be online for a student this morning. Borrowed charger on the way back to London today. Then looked at Ifor ap Glyn's latest reworking of our conference paper for tomorrow.
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Belgian Refugees in Rhyl @refugeesinrhyl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A brand new chapter published today - all about the Belgian Soldiers at Brynkinalt Military Hospital and the #BelgianRefugees who stayed in Chirk. We've had loads of help from Mireille in Belgium and Lady Trevor at Brynkinalt Hall. Have a look: refugeesinrhyl.wordpress.com/brynkinalt/
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Brynkinalt Military Hospital
Lady Rosamund Trevor of Brynkinalt Hall in Chirk, the Countess of Bantry, realised very quickly at the start of the war that there was a need for people at home to do all they could to support the …
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