David Vaughan

The Museum of Decorative Arts has recently held an exhibition called Fabric of Fashion, where contemporary fashion and textile design in Britain was introduced to visitors…

When he was three years old, Herbert Werner and his family were expelled from Czechoslovakia. His mother was Czech but his father was German. We have heard a lot in…

Amid the debate about the millions of ethnic Germans who were expelled from the countries of Central Europe after World War Two, it's easy to forget that there are also…

We often complain about the times we live in, but in Prague today we are lucky. It was only a little over three decades ago that city experienced one of the bleakest…

The Arts: this week looking at the One World festival - an international celebration of documentary film - and at an English speaking competition for Czech secondary…

The American journalist Alan Levy is editor-in-chief of the English language weekly The Prague Post. He came to Prague in 1968 at the time of the Prague Spring, and his…

In 1989 Vaclav Bartuska was a student. The Berlin Wall fell on the 9th November, and in the days that followed voices for change became ever louder in communist…

And now for the first in our new weekly mini-series, in which David Vaughan lets people speak for themselves. People who have experienced moments of drama, excitement or…

For this week's Spotlight we're in one of the most beautiful regions of the Czech Republic, the Krkonose or Giant Mountains, straddling the Czech-Polish border, a hundred…

This week saw the culmination of one of the Czech Republic's most closely observed court cases in recent years. One of Communist Czechoslovakia's most prominent political…