History
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Czechs mark legacy of reformer priest Jan Hus
July 6th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic honouring the memory of reformer priest Jan Hus.
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Czechs mark legacy of Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius
July 5th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic, celebrating the legacy of the Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius who came to Great Moravia in 862.
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Helen Epstein: One real skill and one fake one helped my mother survive the Holocaust
Franci’s War by Franci Rabinek Epstein is a Holocaust memoir told from a candid female perspective. The author’s daughter, Helen Epstein, shares her powerful story.
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Inching eastwards: The re-alignment of Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtai
Historian Sergey Radchenko shares his new research insights into the drift of Central and Eastern European states away from Russia towards the West after 1989.
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Czech nation pays tribute to Milada Horáková on 70th anniversary of her judicial murder
After being convicted in a notorious show trial, politician Milada Horáková was the sole female political prisoner to be executed by Czechoslovakia's Communist regime.
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New book puts spotlight on family of Milada Horáková
A new book, I Go With My Head Held High, looks at the fates of the family of Milada Horáková, who was executed by the Communist regime 70 years ago this Saturday.
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The first ever Spartakiad mass exercise and how it was influenced by the Sokol movement
Tuesday marks the 65th anniversary since the first Spartakiad was held in Czechoslovakia.
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Winners of design competition for Lety Memorial announced
It took thirty years for the Czech authorities to buy out a pig farm that was built on the site of a WWII concentration camp for Romani and Sinti people at Lety in South…
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Lidice: a Czech tragedy’s enduring legacy, as marked in Mexico and embodied in girls’ names
June 10 marks the anniversary of the Lidice massacre, ordered by Hitler in retaliation for the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak…
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“What was crucial was the hidden conflict with Havel” – Civic Forum’s Jan Urban on 30th anniversary…
Exactly 30 years ago, on June 8 and 9, 1990, the first free elections to Czechoslovakia’s Federal Assembly in over four decades were held. Following extremely high turnout…
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Marian column returns to Old Town Square after more than a century
A replica of a controversial 17th century Marian column was re-erected on Prague’s Old Town Square on Thursday, more than a century after the original was torn down by an…
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“We wanted to do something beautiful” - How the US cavalry saved some of world’s most treasured…
In the closing days of World War Two a US Army unit took it upon itself to drive into a Czech village and rescue some of the most valuable horses in the world. The story…
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