Brian Kenety

70 years ago, having already interned thousands of monks in “concentration cloisters”, the Communists turned their anti-religious fervour to Czechoslovakia’s nunneries.

Patrik Pařízek is a specialist on historical clocks and mechancial music. So specialised, in fact, he struggled to find a university that would let him pursue a PhD in it.

Following an uptick in Covid-19, the government will set up a new body to oversee a “smart quarantine” and roll out a “traffic light” system mapping local infection rates.

Alfons Mucha, known for his Art Nouveau posters, was born 160 years ago. After finding fame in Paris, he turned his brush to the Slav Epic, a gift to the Czech nation.

Petr Horálek, the first Czech Photo Ambassador for the European Southern Observatory, travels the globe to photograph stellar events, such as the comet NEOWISE.

Soon after Hitler came to power in 1933, Czechoslovakia began planning in earnest to build fortifications akin to the French Maginot Line to sustain any first onslaught.

When theatres and cinemas closed to help slow the spread of Covid-19, Viktor Tauš conceived of a new way to bring art to audiences, called Filmy Naživo (Live Films).

The coronavirus crisis impacted a third of Czechs according to surveys by Grafton Recruitment . About 4 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 65 lost their jobs.

The wooden Corpus Christi church of Třinec-Guty stood for over 450 years before being burnt to the ground by arson. A replica is now rising like a phoenix from the ashes.

Does the Polish election result signal a further turn towards “illiberal democracy” in central Europe, fanned by those seeking to ignite or exploit a culture war?