Research of theatre repertoire utilises the so-called list of production, which summarises information about the life of the production from the first to the last performance, acquired from playbills and other period sources and from literature, as a work aid. Its final form is the basis for…

The goal of this study was to remind people of the period immediately following 17th November 1989. We wanted to point out the importance of previously overlooked museum collections in documenting our development, and draw attention to museums as a source of learning and knowledge. It was…

The arrival of the occupying armies in August 1968 and the subsequent normalisation purges resulted in an unusually large wave of emigration. The regime responded to this by closing state borders in October 1969. The great number of refugees brought new stimuli to activities in exile, such as…

Catholic priest and chairman of the Czechoslovak People’s Party, and supreme functionary of the Board of pro-regime organisations (e.g. long-term vice-chairman of the Association of Czechoslovak Soviet Friendship), Josef Plojhar, was a distinctive figure in the political world of Communist…

The First Czechoslovak Republic had a distinctive impact on Czech and Slovak historic awareness, despite its relatively short duration. One of the reasons for this was the elaborate system of state symbolism, for instance state holidays. This article focuses on the genesis of origin of the system of…