History
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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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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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