by Simon Mayer | Oct 14, 2024 | [ENGLISH], History
The main goal of the CLARIAH-AT project Esperanto Newspaper Excerpts was to create complete texts for newspaper articles from the Hachette collection. This collection contains articles about Esperanto from the period 1898 until 1915, which are being held at the...
by Guilherme Fians | Jan 31, 2024 | [ENGLISH], History
The above image: Joseph Scherer in the first part of his world tour (from the UMass Amherst archive) On the 16th of October, 1959, Mark Starr (the director of the New York-based Esperanto Information Center) enthusiastically wrote, in a letter to George Falgier (then...
by Patricia Egan | Dec 9, 2023 | [ENGLISH], History, Movement
H.E. Ralph Lindsay Harry, C.B. E. (1917—2002) Australian Delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations UEA Honorary Patron Committee Member (1967) Honora Patrona Komitato (1967) A Tribute With the...
by Carolien Stolte | Apr 5, 2023 | [ENGLISH], History, Movement
Among the many joys of doing research, my favourite is best described as “archival serendipity” – to find something you were not actually looking for. Few things are more attractive than pulling on a thread you never knew was there, just to see what might unravel....
by Bernhard Struck | Feb 20, 2023 | [ENGLISH], History
Prague is a stunningly beautiful city. When you wander around the city centre you will hear a myriad of languages. Perhaps not Esperanto, yet it is there if you look for it. If you walk across the Old Town Square towards the Powder Tower you will see the Charles...
by Pilar Requejo de Lamo | Jan 23, 2023 | [ENGLISH], History, Movement
Since their origins, Esperanto World Congresses have been more than a celebration. They are living proof of Esperanto’s success and popularity. The benefits congresses bring to the movement are beyond question and have been thoroughly discussed within both Esperantism...
by Bernhard Struck | Jan 9, 2023 | [ENGLISH], History
Pardubice. Kutná Hora. Svitavy. Jevíčko. Hradec Králové. Smíchov. Have you ever heard of any of these places? Worry not, me neither – at least not until recently. Let us start with and in Smíchov. In 2020, the ESF generously funded my project “Local Internationalist?...
by Redakcio | Dec 12, 2022 | [ENGLISH], History
In mid November 2022, Croatia’s national Esperanto archive, Dokumenta Esperanto-Centro (DEC), completed its very important digitization project for the journals Konkordo (1924–1928), Balkana Konkordo (1931) and La Suda Stelo (1932–1973). Around 4200 pages were...
by Pilar Requejo de Lamo | Nov 28, 2022 | [ENGLISH], History, Movement, Politics
The picture shows Esperantists performing the Catalan dance “La Sardana”. Unique as Esperantism was and still is, it has not failed to interact as a social phenomenon with other significant movements throughout history. Far from being a peculiar event, isolated from...
by Pilar Requejo de Lamo | Nov 28, 2022 | [ESPAÑOL], History, Movimiento, Política
La imagen muestra a los esperantistas interpretando el baile catalán “La Sardana”. Único como fue y sigue siendo el esperantismo, no ha dejado de interactuar como fenómeno social con otros movimientos significativos a lo largo de la historia. Lejos de ser un...
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