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The Webinar Series Continues...Launched last year in June, a free series of talks continues to explore Europa Nostra Award-winning projects and heritage community initiatives that are of particular interest for the UK.On Thursday, March 28th 17:30-18:30 - an introduction to The Friends of Czech Heritage, a British charity campaigning to raise funds...
All barristers must belong to one of the four Inns of Court, all of which are in the heart of London where the English legal system was developed. We shall visit all four of them, starting in the Temple, with its Great Hall, and its Church. We shall have lunch in the Hall and then a walk through the Royal Courts of Justice and into Lincoln’s Inn an...
A Talk by John East, 30th April 2024, 6.30pm, in the Czech Embassy, London. Against a background of various forms of oppression, the UK benefited from the arrival of Czech and Slovak architects escaping the brutalities of the Nazi regime in the late 1930s and more recently the oppression of the post-World War Two Communist state. Ėmigré architects ...
2nd-6th May 2024 in the Royal Pump Rooms on The Parade, All Saints Church, and Holy Trinity Church Thursday 2nd May7.30pm Concert - Amici della Musica: quartet Friday 3rd May12.00pm Recital - Martin Kasík: piano 7.00pm Coffee Concert - Guarneri Piano Trio Saturday 4th May11.00am Concert - Kukal String Quartet 3.30pm Talk: 'Dvořák in Britain' by Dav...
Heritage Site at Žďár nad Sázavou Participants will work on the restoration of buildings in the Lower Cemetery (which was in fact never used for burials), built by the famous Baroque architect J. B. Santini-Aichel. No prior skill is required. During the week there will be the opportunity to visit some of the region’s houses and castles. The UNESCO ...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavský awarded the Gratias Agit Prize 2023 for spreading the good name of the Czech Republic abroad to eight individuals and one organisation, including our editor Jana Sommerlad, seen fourth from the left in the photograph, click here.
The BCC in the Czech Republic chose our work for day 5 of its Advent calendar on Facebook: The link to projects led to this list: The Park Keeper's cottage, Červený Dvůr restoration of the ruinous building over a period of ten years by volunteers and local craftsmen to become a therapy unit for the hospital. This was completed in the summer of 2023...
A talk by Caroline Cannon-Brookes on Tuesday 13th February 2024 in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY. The 1905 Baedeker’s guide to Austria-Hungary states in its historical introduction “The endeavours of the Habsburgs assisted by the Jesuits, who were practically all powerful in Bohemia and Moravia, t...
2-6 MayBased in the Royal Pump Rooms on The Parade Czech music dominates the programme marking the bicentenary of the birth of Bedřich Smetana, and also the fiftieth anniversary of The Dvořák Society. The music not only includes works by the four best-known Czech composers, Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček and Martinů, but also by lesser-known artists. Com...
The talk was subtitled: "and some of the most beautiful films in modern cinema history" and was given by Mark le Fanu on Tuesday 5th December 2023. The event filled the theatre in the Czech Embassy, London, with both an enthusiastic lecturer and audience. The film school of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, founded in 1946, produced a remar...