Ivana Chmel Denčevová

One of the largest nuclear accidents in history – the Chernobyl disaster, took place on April 26, 1986. The Czechoslovak government did much to hide its scale from citizens

Exactly 80 years ago, Nazi forces annihilated the village of Ležáky. Its tragic story is intertwined with the Nazi hunt for covert troops that realised Operation Anthropoid

Marie Tumlířová was among the first women graduates of the Czech Technical University. Her doctoral thesis – on poultry farming – was an unlikely springboard into politics.

John of Luxembourg, better known abroad as John of Bohemia, is often nicknamed the “foreigner king” by Czechs today. 

If asked to picture Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in your mind’s eye, odds are you will conjure up one of two images of the Austrian composer – both of which have Czech artistic…