text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, photos by Dorota Babilas, Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, Paweł Rutkowski Last month, we were hosting another From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria conference. The theme of QAQV9 was the past which, according to the well-known line by William Faulkner, “is never dead” and is “not even past”. It was the second conference organised […]
text by Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz This year the annual British Association of Chinese Studies (BACS) Conference was held from September 3rd until September 5th in Leicester and was hosted by the University of Leicester. With around 300 participants and a variety of scholars from different fields – from economics to history to culture – it was […]
text by Magdalena Pypeć One of the pressing social issues that deeply concerned Charles Dickens was the need for universal education and comprehensive sanitary reform, both of which he deemed essential to improving the lives of the poor. In Dickens’s view, these two causes were inextricably linked. This connection is vividly illustrated in A Christmas […]
