History
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A foreign influence
In this special programme on Czech Independence Day I am joined by noted historian Jan Rychlík, and we will also be hearing from Jan Hartl of the STEM polling agency. We…
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Heda Margolius Kovály and a murder mystery in 1950s Prague
In the course of a life that spanned over 90 years, the writer and translator Heda Margolius Kovály survived the very worst that the twentieth century could bring: first…
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Mass drumming event marks first Jewish transports from Prague
A mass public drum session to remember the first Jewish transports from Prague on 16 October, 1941 was held in the Czech capital on Friday. The event took place at the…
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Civic groups seek to save historic prison, internment camp, and Jáchymov uranium complex for future
In this week’s Czech History we will be looking at three civic initiatives to try and save aspects of the country’s past where the state and other institutions have failed…
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The life and times of St. Wenceslas
Hello and welcome to a special programme marking Czech Statehood day, which is also the feast day of St. Wenceslas. I am joined for a look at the life of St. Wenceslas –…
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Ernest Thompson Seton: A scout appeals for peace
Ever since the publication of the first Czech translation of Longfellow’s Hiawatha in the 1860s, Czechs have had a special affection for the American West. This was always…
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Czech historians focus on more than 20 year stay of Soviet army in Czechoslovakia
Czech historian Prokop Tomek is the co-author, together with Ivo Pejčoch, of a new book about the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia that started in August 1968 with the…
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Seeing former underground students enter politics post-1989 was wonderful, says philosopher Roger…
The British philosopher Roger Scruton began giving underground seminars at the homes of Czechoslovak dissidents in the late 1970s. He was eventually thrown out of the…
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Who’s the daddy of the daddy of the nation?
Czechoslovakia’s founder and first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is hugely respected by many Czechs and still referred to as the tatínek (daddy) of the nation. But who…
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My people will never abandon their democratic way of life: the irony of a 1945 speech by Edvard…
In the spring of 1945, just before he ended his six-year exile in Britain, President Edvard Beneš gave an address in English that was broadcast by the BBC. The fight to…
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Changes in teaching and writing history in the past two decades
Last time in Czech History, Michal Pullmann discussed his research into Czechoslovak society in the 1980s. In this second in a two-part special, he reflects upon the…
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Czechs mark 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
This Friday marks the 47th anniversary of invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led troops in 1968, which crushed the short-lived Prague Spring reform movement and brought…
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