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About Jessica Douglas Home

Jessica Douglas Home is author of Violet (Harvill Press, 1997) and Once Upon Another Time (Michael Russell, 2000), her personal account of the dissident movements in Romania and the Czech Republic in the years before 1989. She is trustee of the Mihai Eminescu Trust.

Articles by Jessica Douglas Home

Sunday 5th September

Saxon villages: restoration is for the future

The work of restoring the Romanian Saxon Transylvanian villages, as undertaken by the Mihai Eminescu Trust is not romantic or nostalgic: it is about establishing sustainable, proud livelihoods
Tuesday 4th June

Dream-parks and theme-parks

Romania’s Saxon farming and housing settlements have survived for almost a millennium. Now the country’s authorities see the Dracula cult as a lucrative branding opportunity to put the region on the international map. Can local ecotourism help avert the threat of sadotourism?
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