History
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Petra Tonder, pt. 1: My RAF pilot father, the Great Escapee
RAF officer Ivo Tonder played an important part in what became known as the Great Escape, a mass breakout by Allied airmen from a German prisoner of war camp in March 1944…
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Ostrava and its Jews: 'Now No-One Sings You Lullabies'
David Lawson had never heard of Ostrava when, fifteen years ago, his London synagogue received a Sefer Torah that had belonged to a once vibrant community in that…
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Julius Tomin, pt. 2: The police made it absolutely clear I was untouchable
Philosopher Julius Tomin left communist Czechoslovakia for the UK a few years after signing Charter 77. As he explained when we spoke, the Plato expert found it near…
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Julius Tomin, pt. 1: I wouldn’t swop my year in Hawaii for my 15 months in jail
The Czech philosopher and Charter 77 signatory Julius Tomin is perhaps best-known for inviting top Western philosophers to speak at clandestine seminars he ran in Prague…
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In the turbulent year of 1968, Radio Prague was "freer" than Radio Free Europe
In the early years of Radio Free Europe, the U.S. station – although initially founded and largely secretly funded by the CIA – played a critical role in providing…
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Restoration work on Prague’s Astronomical Clock reveals hidden secrets
Restoration work on Prague’s famous medieval Astronomical Clock at the city’s Old Town Hall has revealed hidden secrets; a number of objects which were placed in the tower…
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J. R. Pick and a brilliant novel of the Holocaust: Part 2
In the last edition of Czech Books we featured an interview with Zuzana Justman, who with her older brother and mother survived the wartime Terezín ghetto. Her brother…
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Karlštejn castle marks 670 years since its foundation
The Czech Republic’s famous Karlštejn castle, built by the Bohemian King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, as a treasury for the crown jewels and other precious royal…
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Document creating Kings of Bohemia goes on show in Prague
The Golden Bull of Sicily, one of the founding documents of the mediaeval Czech state, has gone on display at Prague Castle. The valuable artefact, which is only rarely…
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Czechs and Slovaks mark 100th anniversary of ‘Pittsburgh Agreement’ leading to statehood
One hundred years ago this autumn, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk stood atop the stairs of Independence Hall in Philadelphia – where both the American Declaration of Independence…
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Prague exhibition highlights Bohemian Celts at centre of advanced civilisation
A new exhibition put together by Prague’s National Museum traces the around 500 year history of the Celts as the dominant culture across most of Europe. It draws on one of…
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The Defenestration of Prague 400 years on
400 years ago this May, Bohemian noblemen threw a pair of Hapsburg officials out a Prague Castle window. That act of rebellion, known as the “Defenestration of Prague”…
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