{"id":1416,"date":"2023-03-27T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/?page_id=1416"},"modified":"2023-03-27T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:35:46","slug":"esperanto-worlds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/en\/esperanto-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperanto Wor(l)ds"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1416\" class=\"elementor elementor-1416\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cede191 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cede191\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d946c5\" data-id=\"9d946c5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2818717 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2818717\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1417\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-550x309.png 550w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-320x180.png 320w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-533x300.png 533w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-889x500.png 889w, https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fcc3e50 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fcc3e50\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5722933\" data-id=\"5722933\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a0d177 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a0d177\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Postcards and letters that came to Dundee from rural Finland, Norway, Tsarist Russia, Bohemia, and Bulgaria in the early years of the twentieth century inspired the exhibition \u201cEsperanto Wor(l)ds: Scotland, Postcards, and the Creation of an International Language\u201d. These postcards triggered our curiosity: what were people doing with a constructed language that only had come to live in the late 1880s?<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition zooms into the life of John Beveridge, a Presbyterian clergyman born in Ayr in 1857 who spent most of his life in Dundee. John Beveridge and two of his daughters, Lois (a teacher) and Heather (a chemist with a degree from St Andrews), were among the founding members of the Dundee Esperanto Club in 1906.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The archival material around the Beveridge family, held at University of St Andrews Special Collections, are a rare gem in the world of Esperanto. Letters, postcards, congress programmes, records of social events, and Esperanto magazines allow for a unique insight into the wide cast world of Esperanto in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Family members including John and Lois Beveridge visited international congresses in Antwerp in 1911 and Krak\u00f3w in 1912. They embarked on these journeys with fellow Esperanto-speakers from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Perth and Edinburgh and, once abroad, they mingled with thousands of people from across the world.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The letters and postcards displayed in this exhibition illustrate how Esperanto linked local Scottish Esperanto-speakers, John, Lois, and Heather Beveridge, with an international network of Bible translators, scholars, and people interested in exchanging ideas on topics ranging from Norwegian wedding traditions to beekeeping. The exhibition showcases how Esperanto-speakers networked, communicated, and shaped a vibrant international language community. It invites questions about the role of (constructed) languages, cultures, and communities across borders.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEsperanto Wor(l)ds\u201d will be on display at the Wardlaw Museum from 13 April to 29 May 2023. It is curated by Dr Guilherme Fians, Claire Taylor and Dr Bernhard Struck and is part of the collaborative research project \u201cEsperanto and Internationalism, c. 1880s-1820s\u201d based at the School of History at the University of St Andrews.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information see:<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/en\/705ea-home\/\">https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/en\/705ea-home\/<\/a><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/museums\/visit-us\/wardlaw\/\">https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/museums\/visit-us\/wardlaw\/<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postcards and letters that came to Dundee from rural Finland, Norway, Tsarist Russia, Bohemia, and Bulgaria in the early years of the twentieth century inspired the exhibition \u201cEsperanto Wor(l)ds: Scotland, Postcards, and the Creation of an International Language\u201d. These postcards triggered our curiosity: what were people doing with a constructed language that only had come &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/en\/esperanto-worlds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Esperanto Wor(l)ds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transnationalhistory.net\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}