St Albans Postboxes are back again this Summer! The creative fundraiser is organised by St Albans based translation agency Atlas Translations Limited as well as the crochet creative Candy Stuart and her team of yarnbombing enthusiasts. St Albans Postboxes Summer Yarnbomb From Thursday 23rd July 2020 a total of twelve postboxes in St Albans will […]
Woo Hoo! Atlas Translations have won the Community Spirit and Champion Award 2020 at the socially distant The Businesses Community awards! The Business Community Virtual Awards 2020 The virtual awards ceremony was held online due to current government guidelines in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Business Community announced the award, commenting that not only are the […]
St George’s Day is the feast day of St George and it’s held on 23rd April. It is celebrated by various Christian churches and by the several nations, kingdoms, countries, and cities of which Saint George is the patron saint. George was chosen as the patron saint for England as he is popularly identified with […]
Happy birthday to Atlas Translations! Yes, 28 years, millions and millions of words translated, countless hours of interpreting, voiceovers, subtitles… Time whizzes by and it’s hard to keep track of everything we have achieved since 1991! That’s when we started, as a small translations agency in a tiny room above a bank in Cambridge in […]
50th Anniversary of the moon landing What started out as mere fiction in the early 20th century became reality 50 years ago and to this day is one of the biggest achievements of mankind: Apollo 11, the first successful crewed moon landing on the 20th of July 1969. The following (earth) day at 3am UTC, […]
I know Easter is a long way behind us now and we are advancing quickly through May, despite the weather suggesting many alternatives to what we expect from standard issue May sunshine. But I would like to rewind back to Easter for a moment…. Naturally here at Atlas Translations, we indulged in a bit of […]
One of the local charities Atlas Translations is delighted to support is the Counselling Foundation. Their mission is to ensure long term counselling is available to anyone experiencing anxiety, depression or grief. If you live near St Albans, or even if you don’t, you may want to get involved with this fun, family-friendly charity cycle ride in […]
Language and translation in Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl Reading Anne Frank as someone working in the translation industry one notices how central language is to Anne and the others living in the annex. What stood out reading the book is how multi-lingual the Franks all were and what a role language […]
Did anyone notice Valentine’s day was coming up? Someone should probably tell the major retailers and social media platforms? Sense my sarcasm? Let’s start with the history bit as we usually do. St Valentine has been linked to a couple of historical figures (called Valentine, obviously), one of whom is allegedly Saint Valentine of Rome […]
Swedish It is interesting that so many Swedish exports have found significant success in the UK. Abba, Bjorn Borg, IKEA, Pippi Longstocking, Steig Larsson and Zlatan, along with many others have become household names in Britain. It can’t be a coincidence that so many attract such fame in English speaking nations and I wonder if […]
