Voices Magazine

Date: 13 September 2018 - 13:26

One Arabic-English translator shares his experience

Tony Calderbank has been translating from Arabic to English since 1992. He shares some of the knowledge he has acquired along the way.

Tags: Literature, History

Date: 09 May 2018 - 08:00

'Losing memory is like misplacing the rule book' – Jan Carson, novelist

The author Jan Carson writes about the role of memory – and its loss – in her books and in her life.

Tags: Literature, Equal opportunities and diversity

'Shetlandic is still a living spoken tongue'. Image (c) Mike Erskine, used under licence and adapted from the original.

Date: 28 August 2017 - 14:12

'Recognisable yet strange': a guide to Shetlandic dialect

Christine De Luca is a poet who writes in Shetlandic, which is spoken in the Shetland Isles off the north coast of Scotland. We asked her about the dialect.

Tags: Literature, English language, History

'One thought lingered in my mind: "A town is gone and I feel nothing."' Image (c) Juan Antonio Segal, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 25 May 2017 - 17:33

The Polish town that vanished off the map

What happens to people's memories when their town disappears? We asked Filip Springer, author of 'History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town'.

Tags: Literature, History

'[Maria Stoian's book] is a collection of comics based on stories of women who have experienced abuse.' Image (c) Maria Stoian, used with permission.

Date: 18 May 2017 - 01:59

The rich, international world of comic books by women

Anamaria Pravicencu, who curated events at the European Comics Festival Exhibition in Bucharest, talks about the rise of international comic books by women authors.

Tags: Visual Arts, Literature, Women and girls, Equal opportunities and diversity

Angelina Jolie, alongside William Hague, spearheaded the UK government’s ‘Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative’.

Date: 30 November 2015 - 14:47

Why it's time to make a fuss about sexism (podcast)

Laura Bates, who founded The Everyday Sexism Project, talks to journalist Georgina Godwin about feminism and gender inequality in our latest podcast.

Tags: Arts, Literature, Equal opportunities and diversity

'No aspect of the Harlem Renaissance shaped America as much as jazz, which flouted conventions with its syncopated rhythms and improvised instrumental solos'

Date: 15 October 2014 - 13:02

How black culture in the US took off after First World War

This Black History Month in the UK, the British Council’s Paul Howson explains how the Harlem Renaissance turned disillusionment into pride.

Tags: Arts, Music, Literature, History, Dance

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