History
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Bubny train station saw darkest moments of Prague's history
The run-down Praha-Bubny train station is now a fairly insignificant stop on commuter train routes going to and from destinations west of Prague. But in the early 1940’s…
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Helga Weissová-Hošková: painting the truth of Terezín. Part 2
In the last Czech Books we met the artist Helga Weissová-Hošková, who talked about her remarkable wartime diaries. She drew and described what she saw and experienced in…
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Guide to wartime Prague wins top literary award
A guide to the nation’s capital under Nazi occupation has won the top Czech literary award. Guide to Protectorate Prague, which provides details of hundreds of locations…
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Eliyahu Rips: The Latvian Palach-inspired “human torch” protester who survived
When Jan Palach burned himself to death in January 1969 over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his radical protest was echoed by a number of young men in the Eastern…
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Anna Pammrová, a pioneering Czech feminist who lived “off the grid”
Anna Pammrová was an unusual woman in many ways. Influenced by eastern philosophy, she pioneered feminist and environmentalist ideas in an era that had little…
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Helga Weissová-Hošková: painting the truth of Terezín. Part 1.
When the wartime diaries and drawings of Helga Weissová were published in Britain last year, they caused quite a stir. Up to that time they had been all but forgotten…
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Former Communist hardliner Miroslav Štěpán dies, unrepentant
Former prominent official of Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime, Miroslav Štěpán, has died at the age of 68. As leader of the Community Party in Prague, Mr Šťěpán…
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Prague boasts unrivalled collection of chamber pots and toilets at new museum
A rich, and certainly idiosyncratic, museum has joined Prague’s list of attractions. The collection devoted to, let’s say answering the call of nature, is the result of a…
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Restorers to bone up on skills for Kutná Hora ossuary makeover
Containing thousands of human bones arranged in various shapes, including a chandelier and coat of arms, an ossuary outside the Central Bohemian town of Kutná Hora is…
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Monument to “Russian peacekeepers” at Prague cemetery stirs controversy
A monument to fallen soldiers, recently unveiled at a major Prague cemetery, has provoked some strong reactions from Czech politicians and other public figures. The group…
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Seventy-five years of driving on the right
March 17,1939 brought a revolution on Czech roads: the commander of the German occupation forces ordered a change-over to a right-hand traffic system with almost immediate…
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After growing in fits and starts, Prague now evidently at “full size”
Though the history of Prague dates back over a millennium, it was a surprise to read recently that the historic city only got a unified administration 230 years ago…
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