History
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New mobile app brings modern Czech history to life
A freshly released mobile app tells users the stories behind nearby sites linked to 20th century Czech history, as well as allowing them to trace often dramatic events on…
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Passion for Operation Anthropoid has led me to every corner of Prague, says author and tour…
Among the credits in the forthcoming movie Anthropoid is “Man at assassination”. That man is John Martin, a Liverpudlian who was invited to appear as an extra after…
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Czech WW II veteran fulfils dream with Spitfire flight
Czechoslovak RAF veteran and one of the country’s last remaining war heroes, General Emil Boček, took to the skies in a Spitfire on Thursday more than seven decades after…
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Czechs and Slovaks among “The Few”
During the EU referendum debate in Britain the presence of so-called “migrant” workers from Central and Eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic, was one of the…
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From Bohemia to Czechia
On May 2, 2016, the government of the Czech Republic decided to notify Czechia to the UN as the short alternative of the country´s English name, and on July 1, it was…
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Battle of Hradec Králové: a turning point in European history
July 3 is the 150th the anniversary of the Battle of Hradec Králové (Köninggrätz in German) the decisive battle of the short-lived Austro-Prussian war of 1866. It’s…
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Appealing to Britain to remember her friends in Europe
In the first part of this series two weeks ago, we went back to 1932 with a recording of memories of Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk, the American wife of Czechoslovakia’s…
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Unknown diaries kept by Václav Havel to be published
Unknown diaries by playwright and dissident Václav Havel, kept when he was jailed by the Communist regime in 1977 will be published later this year by the Václav Havel…
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Remembering Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk
There is a magic about radio; it preserves moments in time, fragments of conversation from the past, and as long as these fragments are kept in an archive somewhere, they…
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Horror of camps only hits me when I get home to Prague, says Štěpán Černoušek of Gulag.online
Gulag.online is a freshly-launched interactive virtual museum of the infamous Soviet system of labour camps. The unique project comes from the group Gulag.cz, which…
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US author highlights legionnaire’s role in founding Czechoslovakia: part 2
In our last edition of Czech History we showcased the recently published book of US author Kevin J McNamara “Dreams of a Great Small Nation.” The book traces the emergence…
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Motion over status of Soviet 1968 invaders part of broader trend in Russia says historian
Three Communist MPs in Russia’s Duma have proposed that soldiers who served during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia should be granted war veteran status, in order to…
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