History
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Historian Mark Cornwall: Treason is a very sexy subject – it’s like murder
UK historian Mark Cornwall is currently preparing one book that should be entitled Queer Bohemians and another on treason under the Habsburg Empire.
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Anniversary of the week
135 years ago: The first football match in the Czech lands
The first ever football match in the Czech lands is believed to have taken place 135 years ago.
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Daughter of “British Schindler” dies aged 68
Barbara Winton devoted much of her life to sharing the story of how her father helped save 669 Czechoslovak children from almost certain death in the Holocaust.
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Freshly digitised recordings bring T.G. Masaryk’s funeral to life
Newly digitised recordings from Radio Prague International broadcasts of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk's 1937 Prague funeral recreate the atmosphere of the time.
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Anniversary of the Week
September 1902: Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian president with Czech roots, is born
Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, who had Czech ancestry, was born on 12 September 1902. He is best known for building a new federal capital, Brasilia.
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Jewish tombstones broken up for paving stones made into new Prague monument
A new monument has been unveiled in Prague made out of fragments of Jewish tombstones that were cut up into cobblestones during the Communist era.
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Petr Jákl: Jan Žižka movie is “Braveheart about a Czech hero”
This week sees the long anticipated premiere of 'Medieval', the most expensive Czech film in history. We spoke to the film director Petr Jákl.
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Archaeologists in Prague uncover ancient Neolithic structure
Archaeologists in Prague's Vinoř district are currently uncovering a monumental building from the Stone Age, the so-called roundel, built around 7,000 years ago.
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Memorial to Czech RAF pilot Josef František unveiled in Britain
A memorial dedicated to Czech RAF pilot Josef František, who died on October 8, 1940, while returning from a patrol flight, was unveiled in Surrey.
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Czechs building Neolithic boat replica to test out ancient trade routes
A team of experts from the Centre of Experimental Archaeology in North Bohemia is constructing a copy of a real Neolithic boat.
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Giant bell rings out in tribute to thousands stolen by Nazis
A huge bell, weighing exactly 9801 kg, was unveiled in Prague on Sunday. It is a tribute to the 9,801 bells stolen by the Nazis during WWII and melted down for weapons.
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Memorial to Czechia’s 20th century resistance movements to open this week
A new memorial to Czechs who took part in three resistance periods in the 20th century is set to open this Friday.
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