1. August each year is Women in Translation Month. Here’s this year’s celebratory piece from Words Without Borders, 12 Translators Recommend Women in Translation https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-08/translators-recommend-women-in-translation-wwb/

And here’s a great essay, Mother’s Tongue, by one of the translators included in the list, Jennifer Shyue https://www.thecommononline.org/mothers-tongue/ PDF below.

2. Cambridge University Press offers a wealth of open-access material in their journals. Here’s a recent piece from English Today, The future of British English in the European Union by Marko Modiano from the University of Gävle in Sweden https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/E6193DDA4B1EB6DDACA63C43177A3A26/S0266078422000244a.pdf/future_of_british_english_in_the_european_union.pdf

“But because the historical weight behind English is now overwhelming, we have no other course of action than to engage this beast in the attempt to tame it, and mould it into a form which best suits our purposes. For these reasons, mainland Europeans, along with the leaders of the EU, must now claim ownership of the English medium and in so doing harness its energy for the good of the body politic.” PDF below.

Here are links to three other journals that might be of interest:

English Today https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-today/all-issues

RECALL, The Journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/recall/all-issues

Language Teaching https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-teaching/all-issues

Select an individual issue, then click on ‘Only show open access’ in the menu on the left.

You’ll find all the CUP journals on this page https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/journals

3. CUP also offer a free download of all the publications in their Elements series for two weeks after publication. Here’s the recently published Enhancing Educators’ Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Critical Literacy from the Critical Issues in Teacher Education series https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/enhancing-educators-theoretical-and-practical-understandings-of-critical-literacy/27B59AF007C6C613699B3D522B8B075Bn PDF below.

All Elements here https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements

4. Here’s an open-access Language and Education article from Taylor and Francis Online by Jim McKinley, Kari Sahan, Sihan Zhou & Heath Rose, Researching EMI policy and practice multilingually: reflections from China and Turkey https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500782.2023.2246954?src= PDF below.

5. And, finally and architecturally, Streets in the sky, the story of the ‘visionary renaissance’ of Sheffield’s 1960s Park Hill estate, from Vitsoe, the ‘long-living furniture company’ https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/voice/parkhill