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CALL FOR PAPERS: Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700: Concepts, Methods, Approaches

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Political consultative assemblies, common in late medieval monarchies throughout Europe, faced transformative changes between 1500 and 1700. Parliaments, States, Estates, Diets, Cortes varied tremendously in their organization, customs, and functions. Yet they shared a transnational inheritance of ideas and methods of deliberation, consultation and representation that added up to a common European tradition. The interdisciplinary…

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Beyond the Lens – The Polish Community from South London

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Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004, Poles have become the largest foreign-born population in the UK. But what does the British public know about them, apart from the pre-conception that they are good workers? They are of course much more than that. They are doctors, engineers, artists, scientists and academics. Their…

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Restoration: An Art Restorer’s Journey through Communist Poland

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In March 1984, as Poland was recovering from martial law, picture restorer Helen de Borchgrave travelled to the beleaguered country carrying provisions and forbidden books. This talk gives a glimpse of what life was like in Gdansk, Warsaw and Krakow. During the following years, Helen returned to Krakow, to restore masterpieces at the Royal Wawel…

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Ernest Malinowski: the engineer who designed the Central Trans-Andean Railway

Polish engineer, national hero of Peru
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We would be much poorer without history

An interview with Adolf Juzwenko, director of the National Ossoliński Institute
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John III Sobieski and Marysieńka

Love letters of the Polish King to his beloved wife
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Piłsudski (Un)known: History and Pop Culture

book by the Polish History Museum