History
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First woman rabbi Regina Jonas honoured in Terezín
Almost eighty years after her ordination, the world’s first woman rabbi, Regina Jonas, has been honoured at the former Nazi concentration camp in Terezín. Several of her…
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One hundredth anniversary of the start of the Great War marked
July 28th marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War which later came to be known as World War I. On this date in 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared…
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UK-held Mitrokhin archives reveal details of KGB operation against Prague Spring
The freshly released files of the so-called Mitrokhin archive shed light on Soviet intelligence activities during the Prague Spring of 1968. The files, smuggled by senior…
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KGB defector document release promises to shed new light on 1968 Prague Spring
On Monday, the Archive Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge made available to the public for the very first time the results of one of the biggest intelligence leaks in…
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Restoration and digitisation: a visit to the Czech National Film Archive
On July 5, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival screened a fresh copy of the New Wave classic Ostře Sledované Vlaky (Closely Watched Trains, 1966). This is the latest Czech film…
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Radio archives bring Czechoslovak history to life
This spring I worked on a project to explore the Czech Radio archives with a group of international undergraduate students, studying at the Anglo-American University in…
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Communist secret police operations under the spotlight thanks to Andrej Babiš affair
Last week’s decision by a Bratislava court that Czech finance minister Andrej Babiš was falsely described as being an agent of the Communist era secret police has sparked…
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Prague transport system celebrates a hundred years of fines on ticketless passengers
Prague’s much envied public tram, metro, and bus network is marking a special day this Tuesday with the 100th anniversary of the debut of punitive fines being imposed by…
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State heritage institute decides UNESCO listed landmark should be returned to Catholic Church
One of the Czech Republic’s iconic landmarks will be handed back to the Roman Catholic Church following a decision by the country’s custodian of historic buildings and…
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Jewish industrialist Emil Kolben commemorated in Prague
Tribute has been paid to the great Czech industrialist Emil Kolben, with the unveiling of a plaque at his former Prague home on Wednesday morning. Kolben, who died in the…
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s Czech Connections: Part 2
In the second of our series looking at the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One, we follow…
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Bringing together of generations main idea of documentary on Holocaust survivor, says schoolboy…
The new documentary Toman Brod: Praha – Terezín – Birkenau – Märzbachtal – Praha is the portrait of a Holocaust survivor who is today in his mid 80s. But what’s different…
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