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The letters of a lonely man, or what Cat-Mackiewicz wrote about when he was not writing for his readers

- 24.02.2025 -

We talk to Professor Rafał Habielski about the recently published correspondence of Stanisław Cat-Mackiewicz, the difficulties and challenges he encountered as a journalist and what makes his letters unprecedented in the history of Polish literature. “Cat’s Versions” are a record of the obstacles Cat-Mackiewicz encountered in his private life as well as his reflections…

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The January Uprising: the main goal was gaining independence

- 21.01.2025 -

“Poland’s struggle to regain its independence seemed part of a wider European struggle between the liberation movement and the Holy Covenant. The Poles hoped for support from France, and the centre of Polish political emigration was in Paris”, states professor Piotr Szlanta from the Warsaw University. polishhistory: As a result of the three partitions perpetrated…

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After the Great War. A New Europe 1918-1923 – a non-obvious history of Central Eastern Europe

- 18.01.2025 -

People wrongly believe that as of 11 am on 11 November 1918 the ceasefire was called and peace restored. This was not the case in Central and Eastern Europe where one must instead speak of ongoing hostilities and violence, says Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk from the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Why the years 1918-1923 were times…

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Stanisław August Poniatowski, the King Who Wanted to Repair the Commonwealth

- 17.01.2025 -

[Poland’s] final royal election took place on 7 September 1764 in the village of Wola near Warsaw. In the presence of the Russian military, noblemen convened in the village elected Stanisław Poniatowski to be Poland’s new monarch. Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski talks to the Polish History Museum about what happened behind the scenes of the election,…

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Chicago, the Polish city

- 08.12.2024 -

An estimated 3 million Poles left their country between 1850 and 1914. The most common direction of their emigration was Chicago in the United States. As a result, the second biggest population of Polish people still lives in this city today, outside Poland! How did it happen that people from Polish lands started to migrate…

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Tomasz Sikorski: Wiesław Chrzanowski was always able to take the right side

- 03.12.2024 -

He survived the Second World War, the communist period and the first years of the formation of the post-1989 Third Polish Republic, while remaining faithful to his values and beliefs. Although consistently defending his principles, he went down in history as a man constantly seeking dialogue and compromise. What shaped Wiesław Chrzanowski and what does…

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The letters of a lonely man, or what Cat-Mackiewicz wrote about when he was not writing for his readers

The January Uprising: the main goal was gaining independence

After the Great War. A New Europe 1918-1923 – a non-obvious history of Central Eastern Europe

Stanisław August Poniatowski, the King Who Wanted to Repair the Commonwealth

Chicago, the Polish city

Tomasz Sikorski: Wiesław Chrzanowski was always able to take the right side

Helena Modrzejewska. The brightest theater star

(12 October 1840 – 8 April 1909)

General Maczek: Tenaciously, yet chivalrously

an interview with Jacques Wiacek

The Katyn Massacre: Its Chronology, Scale, Victims and Unpunished Perpetrators

The World’s Day of Remembrance for Victims of Katyn Massacre

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795: Light and Flame

Review of the book by Richard Butterwick