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Czech nobility under the spotlight in tv series
A series of eight programmes on public broadcaster Czech Television called Modrá Krev or Blue Blood is already around half way through. The series looks at the modern…
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New documentary celebrates Czechoslovak war hero, RAF pilot Emil Boček
A new Czech documentary film pays tribute to one of the country’s last remaining war heroes, Czechoslovak RAF veteran General Emil Boček. The 94-year old war pilot made…
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Jan Antonín Baťa always said he put his people first, says granddaughter Dolores Bata Arambasic
The Baťa family – who built a shoemaking empire in Zlín, Moravia – were perhaps the most important industrialists in interwar Czechoslovakia. One of the best-known members…
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Architectural historian Barbara Peacock: in Britain we had no idea about the richness of the Czech…
British architectural historian Barbara Peacock was recently honoured with a Point of Light Award by Prime Minister Theresa May for her work in helping to repair, preserve…
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Czech Holocaust hero Antonín Kalina remembered in home town
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Czechs are marking the memory of Antonín Kalina, a Czechoslovak Communist who risked his own life to save…
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Fashion Behind the Iron Curtain: A new book explores how Czechoslovakia’s communist regime used…
A new book, Fashion Behind the Iron Curtain, released by Grada and Prague’s Museum of Decorative Arts (UPM) has taken on the task of mapping fashion in Czechoslovakia from…
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Czechs marking Palach anniversary with chain hunger strike, debates and remembrance acts
Czechs are marking the 48th anniversary of the self-immolation of student Jan Palach, a brave protest against the loss of freedom and gradual apathy following the 1968…
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Mrs. Thatcher’s triumphant Czechoslovak procession, the Union Jack car, and what to do with Denis
One of the annual milestone events in history is the annual New Year release of British government archives. Most of them become public after a period of 30 years. In the…
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Researchers welcome ruling protecting access to historical archives
Czech historians researching the totalitarian era breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday, when the Constitutional Court ruled that the accessibility of archives from that…
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Remembering Clare Hollingworth, the war correspondent who saved thousands of Czechoslovaks from the…
The great British journalist Clare Hollingworth, who has died at the age of 105, is most famous for breaking the news that the Nazis were poised to invade Poland and start…
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WWII US bomber highlights threat of treasure hunters to Czech heritage
Two tales more than 70 years apart have been seized upon by the Czech Institute of Archeology. The first was the story of a Second World War US bomber shot down over Czech…
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Charter 77: An original signatory on Communist Czechoslovakia’s most important protest movement
It is exactly 40 years since the launch, on 6 January 1977, of the landmark Charter 77 declaration. Calling on Czechoslovakia’s Communist rulers to honour their commitment…
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