History
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New exhibition brings old Prague café culture back to life
Many capital cities are famed for their café culture, and Prague is no exception. At the turn of the twentieth century, writers like Karel Čapek and Franz Kafka would meet…
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Marc Verdier – French freemason in Prague
In this edition of One on One, my guest is Freemason Marc Verdier, the Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Czech Republic. French by origin, Mr Verdier settled…
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Nashville museum showcasing largest collection of vintage Czechoslovak cars outside Europe
The Lane Motor Museum in the US city of Nashville made the news here in the Czech Republic recently when it commissioned a copy of a 1940s Tatra aero sledge or aero luge…
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MPs want exiled Carpathian Czechs compensated
Czech lawmakers have recommended that people forced to abandon their homes in Carpathian Ruthenia, when this part of Czechoslovakia was ceded to the Soviet Union at the…
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Černín Palace: an impressive Baroque residence turned foreign policy hub
Just a few minutes’ walk from Prague Castle, the monumental Černín Palace stands out in Hradčany’s Loreto Square. Built in the 17th and 18th centuries as the residence of…
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Occupation and betrayal
Sixty-nine years ago this week, on March 14 1939, the Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha spoke to the nation. He had just returned from Berlin, where Hitler had given him a…
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Josef Hlávka: one of the greatest Czech philanthropists
This week marks exactly 100 years since the death of Josef Hlávka, an architect, builder and the biggest Czech philanthropists of all time. This year, it has been 104…
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Freemasons of the Czech Republic unite
The secretive international organisation the Freemasons tends to follow two main traditions, broadly-speaking English and French. The Czech Republic was unusual in that…
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Sixty years on, the mystery of Jan Masaryk’s tragic death remains unresolved
Monday marks the 60th anniversary of the mysterious death of Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia in the 1940s and son of the country’s founder and its first…
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Students at Strakonice high school see success in Lost Neighbours project
Just a few years ago the Jewish Museum in Prague launched its Lost Neighbours project, aiming to piece together the stories of forgotten Czech Jews persecuted by the Nazis…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: the beneficial properties of sea water once again, the Barrandov film studios in Prague, an Oscar for Czech musician Markéta Irglová, the 30th…
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Czechoslovakia’s Second Republic: a vain attempt to put the pieces together
The six months leading up to the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939 were a strange period. After Germany, Poland and Hungary had annexed over a quarter…
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