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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: the king of Denmark missing, European repercussions of disturbances in Istanbul, minor actions in Polish Prussia, the Chalais conspiracy, and friction between France and England.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: heroism under siege in Linz.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: More about the Battle of Lutter, with editorial commentary on how the war is going.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: the imperial victory at Lutter, from a first-hand letter with independent confirmation (plus some speculation from Cologne about how things might be going in Polish Prussia)

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

UCLouvain looking to hire somebody in Interpreting (should have a doctorate in Interpreting Studies; application deadline noon on 5 November): jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

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Un·e académique en Interprétation

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Deadline extended to 7 September

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Conference on the theme of "voice" in translating, interpreting, subtitling, signing, literature and linguistics (with particular reference to English). Two more weeks to deadline for the CfP. Please share widely: uclouvain.be/en/research-...

uclouvain.be

2026 BAAHE Conference

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: the English navy having victual supply problems, with a boast (30 years after the last execution for heresy) that Protestants in the Catholic Netherlands are a lot better off than Catholics in Protestant England.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Well, now it supposedly is available. I'll believe it when I have a copy in my hands ...

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: Gustavus Adolphus's invasion of Prussia, Mansfeld's incursion into Silesia, and (unusually) an editorial comment on media literacy.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Not in the reports I've seen so far.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There is a curiosity in this being something like the third time in four years that the Portuguese were reported to have recovered Hormuz. Clearly an elusive place.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: Flemish privateering; the Portuguese recovery of Hormuz ("If the world were a ring, Hormuz would be its jewel"); troop movements in Germany (with the recovery of some of their illicit plunder).

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

uclouvain.be

2026 BAAHE Conference

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I was once an avid reader of English comics, but neither the Beano nor Commando travel well. And even then, Asterix was better than any of them! American comics all seemed to be about superheroes, which I've never been able to get into.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Weird opening. "The second biggest is not from the US or UK"? Why on earth would it be? (Especially the UK!)

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: Ostend privateers, a news roundup from Venice, Mansfeld's march on Silesia, the Peasants' War in Austria, and a Habsburg royal engagement.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One last chance to visit! Museum Plantin-Moretus closes temporarily from Monday, 3 August while we prepare a renewed permanent exhibition. Reopening on 5 December 2026. We hope to see you then! ✨ #earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory 📜💙📚

Bird’s eye perspective of the great hall with wooden staircases and a tile floor with a star pattern in the middle. Copyright: LUCID

Exterior view of the museum of brick walls with one covered in creeper. Copyright: LUCID

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: movements of troops and diplomats in Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Germany, the Netherlands; religious strife in Holland; and the newly wed Charlotte Stanley, née de La Trémoille (a granddaughter of William the Silent) on her way to England in the middle of a heatwave..

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: the Peasants' War in Austria, diplomatic moves in Italy, strange doings in the Baltic, and rumours of war from Hungary.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 15/07/2026

BREAKING: Hong Kong police raid 2 independent bookstores, arrest 5 for alleged sedition – local media reports 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/b...

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

News from Brussels 400 years ago: ambassadorial fireworks go awry.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: response to the tax rebellion in Friesland, peasant revolts in Austria and Bohemia, troop movements in Germany.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Yes, but for all the enthusiasm the Nazis still had to murder and exile quite a few people to make it stick.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

To be fair there is an element of truth to that. At least, the first non-German victims.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Somebody from Graz told me nobody in Austria had ever seen it, and I naively believed her!

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

He was a Shakespearean actor (and a bit of a grump) who saw it as a one-dimensional role in a horribly saccharine film. But I always thought it was a massively popular film outside Germany and Austria. I suppose it's too fairy-tale a view of the era to catch on with German-speakers.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: outbreak of revolt in Upper Austria

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago, including the political take-up of rumours about Buckingham in England, and troop movements in Germany and Italy.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

CfP for a conference in November on "Human and Human-like Voices" (in English language, literature, translation and interpreting): www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: those in power in England resist being called to account by Parliament; expectation of good news about the Strait of Hormuz; breaking news of tax riots in Friesland; more on Wallenstein's victory at Dessau.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago includes a brief notice of George Eglisham's scandalous "Fore-Runner of Revenge", "seemingly printed at Frankfurt" (actually printed in Brussels as part of a disinformation campaign accompanying the 1625-1630 war with England).

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When I was starting out I found this kind of thing intimidating, and the first time made changes I didn't like just to show willing. But chances are they're just trying to be helpful, rather than meddlesome, and open communication goes a long way.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Advice from a stranger who has had this at every stage of a chequered career, whether for conferences or volumes: don't be shy of asking for clarification, and if you disagree don't be afraid to say why. The suggestion might reflect a misunderstanding worth clearing up either way.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Very exciting news. The movement of the Old English original from annotation to main text, where the Latin translation had been centre stage, scratches a Translation Studies itch about paratextual inversion going back 25 years. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

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Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My only familiarity with this technology is being on the receiving end of slop masquerading as student composition, but if it were to be used surely it makes more sense to brainstorm and outline *before* prompting software to draft, or even to tidy a draft?

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The choice of image, presumably reproduced from a medieval chronicle or a chivalric romance, seems to align Captain Adriaan Diericx's action with older models of heroism — perhaps appropriate for a cavalry charge unsupported by artillery or musketeers.

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026