History
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How the Communists wished Havel Happy Birthday and elected him President of Czechoslovakia
The late Czech president, Václav Havel, who died five years ago, would have turned 80 on Wednesday, October 5. Celebrations of his life and legacy are taking place at home…
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František Janouch, part 2: Why the Velvet Revolution was “too velvet”
When Czechoslovak dissidents produced samizdat literature in the late communist period they did so in large part thanks to the material and financial support of the…
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Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav - a place of pilgrimage
September 28 is the Feast Day of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia. The son of a duke, Wenceslas ruled the country from 922, when he was 15, to his untimely death…
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St Andrews commemorates Czech Hussite emissary burned at stake for heresy
A plaque commemorating Pavel Kravař, a Czech scholar and Hussite emissary from Bohemia, was recently unveiled in St Andrews in Scotland, close to the spot in Market Street…
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František Janouch, part 1: My work with Charter Foundation like wartime solidarity when dad was in…
A nuclear scientist, František Janouch is perhaps best-known for the Charter 77 Foundation, which he set up in exile in Sweden to provide dissidents in his native…
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Winton children plan to honour their parents’ courage
There are plans to build a memorial dedicated to the parents of the so-called Winton children, who escaped death in Nazi gas chambers when they were sent abroad from…
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Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz: of unknown origin in a strange wood without leaves
This year’s George Theiner Prize, which honours people who have helped to promote Czech literature abroad, went to Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz. At the University of British…
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Castle refuses apology in Peroutka case citing fear of flood of lawsuits
A saga involving President Miloš Zeman and legendary Czech journalist Ferdinand Peroutka has taken another twist. The president’s office had faced a court order to…
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Prague’s Nostitz Palace houses priceless collection of books
One of the city’s most precious book collections is to be found in the Nostitz Palace Library in Prague’s Lesser Town. The Early Baroque building, former residence of the…
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Reconciliation project organiser: Sudetens returning impossible so why not try friendship?
A group of young Czechs are currently raising funding to bring now elderly Germans expelled from the Czech lands after WWII to Prague in November for events including a…
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Special circumstances could have resulted in first successful C-section in medieval Prague
The first ever Caesarean section in Europe in which both mother and child survived might have taken place in Prague at the court of Jan of Luxembourg already in the 14th…
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When your word is your bond
The new Czechoslovak state created from the debris of WWI understood one thing from the outset, that a fundamental factor in the prosperity and success of the new state…
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