INSTITUTE MATTERS
'TRANSLATION:
LABOURS OF LOVE
& VISUALIZATIONS'
Saturday 18 May
Darwin College,
Cambridge, 11am CAM
Mitre, 30 Steep Hill,
Lincoln LN2 1TL.
A talk by Mario Petrucci.
For details, email
leslie.ray@btinternet.com.
Old Library Room, Darwin
College, Silver Street,
Cambridge CB3 9EU.
STUDY WEEKEND
6-8 September GER
Coburg, Bavaria
This year's topic is Prince
Albert of Saxe-Coburg
and Gotha (aka the Prince
Consort). For details, email
j.bobrowska@gmx.net.
October
Dr Wendy Anderson will
talk on her project to
explore metaphorical links
within English, from Old
English to the present
day. For details contact
amwithers@msn.com.
Room 1.36, Tower Building,
University of Dundee.
VISIT TO AIRBUS
A380 WING
BPG
FACILITY
Thursday 10 October
Broughton, North Wales
June
CONTACT DETAILS
Limited places are
available, so register now
to avoid disappointment:
julie.hobbs@iol.org.uk.
BPG Judith Ridgway,
ridgway@talktalk.net
ID IoL.Interpreting.
LEGAL TRANSLATION
TD
Division@googlemail.com
CONFERENCE
TD Karen Stokes,
Friday 28 June
translatingdivision@
Europe House, London,
gmail.com
10am-4.15pm
For details see iol.org.uk,
Translating Division page.
July
AGM AND
NETWORKING
LINC
LUNCH
Saturday 6 July
Wig & Mitre, Lincoln,
midday-4pm
CIOL President Nick
Bowen will attend, as the
society marks its 15th
anniversary. For details
call Candia Hillier on
01522 526695 by 29 June.
Steep Hill Room, Wig &
Vol/52 No/2 2013
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'METAPHORICAL
LINKS WITHIN
SCOT
ENGLISH'
Saturday 18 May
University of Dundee, 2pm
September
CAM Leslie Ray,
leslie.ray@btinternet.com
GER Gabriele Matthey,
translations@gmatthey.de
HK Francis Lee,
francisleekc@iolhks.hk
LINC Candia Hillier,
candia@chezhillier.
freeserve.co.uk
LON Rannheid Sharma,
RSharma105@aol.com
NW Katrin Hiietam,
katrin.hiietam@
ee-translations.com
SCOT Anne Withers,
amwithers@msn.com
SP Martin Caine,
martincaine2008@
gmail.com
Return visit by the book
JAMES FARMER JOINS THE BPG AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY
On 13 January, 20 BPG members and
guests gathered in the British Library's
impressive entrance hall to meet our
guide for the day, Julian Walker, who
gave us a detailed tour of the gallery. A
regularly changing selection of the
library's myriad treasures is displayed,
with religious artefacts including a
Gutenberg Bible and an early English
print of the Bible by William Caxton.
Gutenberg spent years researching and
preparing his first printing, in virtual
seclusion on a small island in the Rhine.
We saw the Lindisfarne Gospels –
complete with an English translation
between the lines – and the Codex
Sinaiticus, a Greek testament that dates
back to the third century.
Islam was represented by several
beautiful copies of the Qur'an, decorated
with colours such as blue (lapis lazuli from
Afghanistan) and red (cinnabar from
China). Julian passed around small
samples of the raw materials, which
would have been immensely costly in
the Middle Ages because of the
distance they had to be transported.
Secular items included Magna Carta,
issued in 1215, and the mediaeval works
Beowulf and Piers Plowman. The library
also holds a range of original musical
scores, ranging from Mozart, Beethoven
and Elgar through to the Beatles! Oscar
Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol was a
poignant exhibit. And, finally, I was
delighted to see Jane Austen's desk,
complete with her spectacles, as I had
recently visited her home at Chawton.
Julian kindly answered several
detailed questions. One member of our
group wanted to know if he owned a
Kindle – the answer was yes. The tour
concluded with a tasty lunch in the staff
restaurant, after which some members
visited the Mughal exhibition.
TASTY LUNCH
BPG members in the staff restaurant
at the British Library
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