Are you interested in the history of teaching and learning modern languages in the UK and in Europe? Then this site is for you. Browse the links and resources, but, now that our project has finished, see also the website of our ongoing research network: www.HoLLT-net. )
This site was set up by Prof. Nicola McLelland (University of Nottingham) and Dr Richard Smith (University of Warwick) in connection with their AHRC-funded research network project, 'Towards a History of Modern Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (MFLTL)' (15 July 2012 - 14 July 2014; AH/J012475/1 / RGS105262). The project aimed to stimulate historical research into language teaching in the UK and beyond, and to contribute to the establishment of a network of researchers via two workshops (December 2012 in Nottingham and June 2013 at Warwick) and an international conference in July 2014.

The main publications arising from the project were: 

McLelland, N. & Smith, R. (Eds.) (2014). Building the history of language learning and teaching. Special issue of Language & History, 57 (1). Open Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ylhi20/57/1?nav=tocList

Smith, R. & McLelland, N. (Eds.) (2018). Histories of language learning and teaching in Europe. Special issue of The Language Learning Journal, 46 (1). Open Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rllj20/46/1?nav=tocList

McLelland, N. & Smith, R. (Eds.) (2018). The history of language learning and teaching, 3 volumes. Oxford: Legenda (Modern Humanities Research Association). Introduction: http://www.mhra.org.uk/pdf/HoLLT-Introduction.pdf   
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In the course of the project we set up a mailing / discussion list for anyone interested in the History of Language Learning and Teaching, and this developed into the network now known as HoLLT-net, which is active as a Research Network of AILA, the International Association of Applied Linguistics. More information about the network is here: http://hollt.net
TO JOIN, just send an email message to the address listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk with an empty subject, and with the following in the body of the message: 
SUBSCRIBE HOLLT-NET FORENAME SURNAME

You may also be interested in joining the Facebook group we set up specifically for PhD students and early career researchers (but open to anyone): 
www.facebook.com/groups/hollt