Radical Translations
We also have a dedicated series on Lives in Translation that you can check out.
Brecht Deseure July 6, 2022, 12:53 p.m.
Griffet de Labaume, member of the Cercle social and translator of key radical texts into French.
Brecht Deseure May 24, 2022, 3:26 p.m.
Jacob McGuinn March 31, 2022, 10:01 a.m.
An interview with David McCallam about his new translations of the poetry of André Chénier.
Brecht Deseure Nov. 2, 2021, 9:18 a.m.
The ways this symbolic monument was translated in the Revolutionary period.
Brecht Deseure Sept. 29, 2021, 10:08 a.m.
The life of Nicolas de Bonneville, French translator in the Revolutionary era.
Niccolò Valmori April 15, 2021, 10:06 a.m.
Read Professor John Patrick Leech on his new book about translation, Cosmopolitanism, dissent and translation
Brecht Deseure March 16, 2021, 9:19 a.m.
Brecht Deseure's new book on counterrevolutionary visual cultures.
Brecht Deseure Feb. 17, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Read about the research of Rachel Hammersley, Professor of Intellectual History at Newcastle University, on republicanism and the French Revolution.
Niccolò Valmori Jan. 18, 2021, 11:11 a.m.
The intriguing history of the Phrygian cap revealed...
Brecht Deseure Dec. 26, 2020, 2:35 p.m.
Helen Maria Williams thought she struck gold when she came across a collection of previously unknown letters by Louis XVI in 1803. She immediately set out to publish an English translation, but events took an unexpected turn...
