History
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The Clementinum, the Baroque pearl of Prague
Standing in the centre of the Clementinum – if you can locate such a thing in the labyrinth – you are surrounded by around a millennium of history and millions of volumes…
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Jaroslav and Alžběta Hofrichter: the enduring power of love
In this programme two quite exceptional people tell their own story. It is a tale of courage, resilience and a touch of luck, but above all of the enduring power of love…
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Jaroslav Foglar and his “Rapid Arrows”
Writer and youth movement activist Jaroslav Foglar left a deep trace in Czech popular culture. Besides more than 25 novels for children, Jaroslav Foglar is also the father…
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Vilém Prečan on how Czechs see Václav Havel
Vilém Prečan was a longtime associate of the late dissident-turned-president Václav Havel. In the following interview, he discusses the reasons behind some Czechs…
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Czech media reflects ambivalence over Havel legacy
The Czech Republic is marking the two-year anniversary of the death of former president Václav Havel. Current Czech president Miloš Zeman is due to lay a wreath at his…
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US film historians find treasure in Czech archive
American film historians recently came across a fascinating discovery when they found the Czech National Film Archive has the only surviving print of the 1929 US movie…
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A Tale of Two Towers
Prague’s skyline gave the capital one of its nicknames: the city of a hundred spires. But in actual fact around a thousand spires, belfries and towers of various styles…
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Mediaeval Bohemian coin found in Israel identified as denier of Ottokar II
Archaeologists in Israel believe they have indentified a unique mediaeval Bohemian coin found in 2009 in the former crusaders’ city of Acre. The experts say the coin was…
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Horrors of Gulag still palpable, says photographer Pavel Blažek
Pavel Blažek spent three weeks in September taking panoramic photographs of long abandoned Soviet labour camps in Siberia for the project Gulag.cz. His work now forms a…
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Russian activist and poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya remembered
For many Czechs, Russia’s Natalya Gorbanevskaya was nothing less than a hero, one of eight people in 1968 who protested on Red Square in Moscow against the Soviet-led…
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Czech group launches “virtual museum” of Siberian Gulag camps
Fascinating panoramic photos of abandoned Siberian Gulag camps have just appeared on the Czech website www.gulag.cz. The pictures were taken on the third trip deep into…
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Jiří Stránský and others receive awards for perseverance under dictatorial regimes
One of the newer annual events during the commemoration of the Czech day of Democracy and Freedom on 17 November – the Memory of the Nation award ceremony – took place on…
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