History
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Josef Gočár: pioneer of Czech Cubist, Rondocubist architecture, and designer extraordinaire
This Friday marks 140 years since the birth of the pioneering Czech architect and designer Josef Gočár. His legacy includes iconic works in a range of styles, most…
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13 March 1950: When propaganda, a pub brawl put defending world hockey champs Czechoslovakia ‘on…
Czechoslovakia had arguably the best national ice hockey team in the world for years after the Second World War – despite the Communists side-lining a slew of “politically…
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The best of Czech classical music, part nine: Ktož jsú boží bojovníci
Did the outnumbered Hussites defeat the crusaders at the Battle of Domažlice by singing? Modern-day historians are sceptical. But for František Palacký, Alois Jirásek and…
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Giant of Czech history T.G. Masaryk born on this day in 1850
Saturday is the 170th anniversary of the birth of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, founder and first president of Czechoslovakia and one of the most important figures in Czech…
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Rare recording of President Masaryk’s 80th birthday speech comes to light
Curators at the National Museum have discovered a previously unknown recording of a speech given by the first Czechoslovak president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, on March 7th…
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Archaeologists unearth massive Moravian castle walls under historic Přerov square
Archaeologists are busy excavating massive walls of a Moravian castle dating back to the early Slavonic Age of nearly a millennium ago. The extraordinary find, made near…
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Opening of Pius XII archives could shed light on seminal period in Czechoslovak history
The opening up of the archives of Pope Pius XII by the Vatican is seen worldwide as an opportunity to find answers to long-term questions about the secretive pontiff who…
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Eda Kriseová, Part 2: People hate Havel for his morality
Writer and former dissident Eda Kriseová worked closely with Václav Havel during his first few years as president. She headed Prague Castle’s Complaints and Pardons…
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Františka Plamínková: the feminist suffragette who ensured Czechoslovakia’s Constitution of 1920…
On the 29th of February 1920, the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia adopted a Constitution formally establishing a democratic republic with guaranteed equal rights for…
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26 Feb 1990: Soviet troops begin pulling out of Czechoslovakia, decades after a ‘temporary…
Exactly thirty years ago, Václav Havel was in Moscow meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, and the pact on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia was signed…
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“A puppet in some monstrous play” – Josef Toufar’s cruel fate recalled 70 years later
The history of the Communist-era is filled with tales of martyrs, but few of them are as well-known and distressing as the story of Father Josef Toufar, who died on…
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Eda Kriseová, Part 1: I understood the meaning of normalisation at Jan Zajíc’s funeral
When Eda Kriseová was barred from journalism after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion she chose an unlikely escape from the grim reality of that time: voluntary work at an…
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