History
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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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Czech debate about Red Army monuments
Monuments to the Soviet Red Army, which were part of the townscape for many years, now find themselves at the centre of a fierce, protracted debate which appears to be…
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1990: Mr Havel goes to Washington
Thirty years ago on this day, February 21, then Czechoslovak president Václav Havel addressed a specially convened joint session of the United States Congress. Only a few…
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Czech Holocaust survivor Lisa Miková, 98, awarded Germany’s highest honour
Lisa Miková, a 98-year-old Czech woman who survived internment in Terezín, Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, has been awarded Germany’s highest honour, the…
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“Einstein in Bohemia” – Part II: how alienation in ‘half-barbaric’ Prague led him to a new theory…
When Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Prague in early April 1911 to take up his first full professorship teaching theoretical physics, he was not yet world-famous…
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Archaeologists unearth seven graves dating back to Great Moravian Empire
Czech archaeologists have announced a significant discovery in South Moravia, on what used to be the territory of Great Moravia. Working at a location in Staré Město near…
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“Einstein in Bohemia” – part 1: how a Prague sojourn sparked his theory of general relativity…
Albert Einstein’s tenure as a professor of theoretical physics in Prague is often noted in passing – as an “interlude” or a “sojourn” of no great significance, even though…
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Valentine’s Day 1945 - When the Americans bombed Prague
Exactly 75 years ago, on Valentine’s Day 1945 two confused bomber groups of the USAF accidentally bombed Prague. The raid killed hundreds of Czechs and left over a…
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Film about tragic fate of great Czech actress highlights communist atrocities in the 1950s
A new film called The Trap, which is due to premiere on Czech Television this Sunday, tells the tragic fate of the great Czech film and theatre actress Jiřina Štepničková…
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