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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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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
And the episcopal archives are bliss. Maybe the De Wachter Huldeboek has pictures of classes?
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Wow, well done. Have not read all but I have some info on August edmond de Schrijver/Schryver, who attended the school in Barmouth. There was a school gazette kadocheritage.be/items/show/1...
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Titelpagina van Souvenir d’exil van 11 augustus 1915 · Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving - Erfgoed online
Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving - Erfgoed online
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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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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
What about the mobile bathroom he took with him when he left for Antwerp, does it still exist, if so where?
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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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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"Laat nooit iemand achter. Geen vriend en geen vriendin, ook niet bij die sympathieke barman. Let op elkaar en op elkaars drankje. Als je wat ziet, zeg er wat van." + zeg er wat van als humor geen humor meer is.
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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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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Near the other bridge across the Menai Strait lies the Belgian promenade, refugee heritage historypoints.org/index.php?pa...
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Belgian Promenade, Menai Bridge - History Points
During the First World War, refugees from German-occupied Mechelen (or Malines) in Belgium were accommodated in Menai Bridge. In gratitude for...
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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
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Couldn't agree more, but I'm afraid the reality is miles away from my marking. Soon though...
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@liavanbekhoven.bsky.social
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thomas Gresham connecting the dots
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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 · 08/01/2025
I wish I could be of assistance, but am of the wrong pedigree
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Haha, same. Hurried myself for 1.33km in 12mins12secs yesterday and wanted to calculate the (London) speed of that, but found myself asking epistemological questions about decimals and the double appearance of 60 in each equation I came up with.
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Christophe Declercq @chrisdec71.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
/4 Migrants and asylum seekers tend to be dehumanised, and are represented and commonly perceived mainly through alarming figures, while the diversity of their multilingual and multicultural repertoires is reduced into an apparently homogeneous group.
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