The Friends of Czech Heritage: keeping you informed about our activities

You can click on the envelope icon on the right of the black bar beneath this text to subscribe to our activities listing.

Please note that the working holidays are booked by emailing the Friends' Chairman on and are paid for by Paypal. The one-off events such as lectures and concert are fully bookable on the website, which is done by clicking here.

For events and news from other organisations please click here (you don't have to belong to Facebook, you can reduce the 'pop-up' blocker from Facebook by clicking 'Not now', in order to view our latest postings), where we feature a broad range of Czech-related items, regularly updated.

Stephen Conlin

Our Chairman's Visit to Prague, February 2019

51562155 1965245250241085 6591236196045684736 o
The charity The Friends of Czech Heritage is a member of the British Czech Chamber of Commerce in Prague and on 7th February our Chairman Peter Jamieson and Secretary James Robertson attended a wine tasting promoted by the BCC as their special guests at the showrooms of the Lasvit glass company. This gave us the opportunity to mingle with members a...
Read more about this >>
  365 Hits
Tags:
event news
365 Hits
Stephen Conlin

Place and Setting at Konopiště Castle in Bohemia

Kono1DinnerDec2018
Milan Svoboda, the heritage specialist who worked on The Friends' recent tour of historic Bohemia, was instrumental in setting up an exhibition at Konopiště Castle, the home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Duchess of Hohenberg, born Žofie Chotková z Chotkova. The couple were assasinated in Sarajevo in 1916. After World War One and the expulsion...
Read more about this >>
  455 Hits
Tags:
event news
455 Hits
Stephen Conlin

Lecture 14.05.19 'The Royal Collection in Three Dimensions: Adventures of a Sculpture Cataloguer'

SirJMarsdenMay2019 cFoCH
Sir Jonathan Marsden gave a talk at the Embassy of the Czech Republic on Tuesday 14th May 2019, entertaining the guests with stories from behind  the scenes of the Royal Sculpture Collection. He presented some of the lessons learned from working on a catalogue raisonné of European sculpture in the Royal Collection to be published by ...
Read more about this >>
  569 Hits
Tags:
event news
569 Hits
Stephen Conlin

Britain and Bohemia in the Fifteenth Century: The English Struggle Against the Hussite Movement

050321 MarkWhelan cFoCH
FRIENDS' LECTURE: BRITAIN AND BOHEMIA IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURYOn 5th March 2019 Dr. Mark Whelan, an historian of late medieval and early modern Germany and Central Europe who is currently working at King’s College, London, gave a lecture explaining how and why the English kings and senior clerics became involved in the early-fifteenth-century strug...
Read more about this >>
  624 Hits
Tags:
event news
624 Hits
Stephen Conlin

Newspaper article about The Friends' work in Pravo newspaper

PravoPg3Nov11 2018Web
On 10th November 2018 'Magazín Práva', a supplement in the Czech national newspaper 'Pravo', featured this year's working party organised by The Friends at the Chateau of Vizovice. The article is by Zuzana Musálková, with excerpts below translated from the Czech by Rupert Emery."The fact that foreigners admire our cultural monuments – and moreover ...
Read more about this >>
  587 Hits
Tags:
event news
587 Hits
Stephen Conlin

The Friends' working party at Vizovice in Moravia, September 2018

Vizovice Small cRadekLinner
The project that we undertook at the Château of Vizovice in the week 8 - 15 September consisted of taking down an unstable brick boundary wall in the park, which had been rebuilt before the Velvet Revolution. It was set on a stone base, which had also collapsed in places. We cleaned all the bricks ready for reuse and rebuilt sections of the stone b...
Read more about this >>
  575 Hits
Tags:
event news
575 Hits
Stephen Conlin

Friends' Lecture: A Celebration of Czechoslovak Culture in Wartime Britain - An Illustrated Talk by Jana Buresova

Buresova cFoCH
A CELEBRATION OF CZECHOSLOVAK CULTURE IN WARTIME BRITAINOn 9th October 2018 Dr. Jana Burešová of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University of London gave a talk at the Czech Embassy on the ways in which both Czech and German-speaking exiles from Czechoslovakia during the Second World War acted to promote knowledge ...
Read more about this >>
  940 Hits
Tags:
event news
940 Hits
Stephen Conlin

Friends' Lecture - Prague and Innsbruck: the cultural patronage of the Archduke Ferdinand II. A lecture by Caroline Cannon-Brookes

PJamieson CCannon Brookes080119SMALL
On 8th January 2019 the art historian Caroline Cannon-Brookes gave a fascinating lecture in the Czech Embassy, London, about the life of Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand II (1529- 1595) and the collections amassed by him. Born the second son of the future Emperor Ferdinand I and Anne of Bohemia, he was Regent of Bohemia for twenty years in the middle of...
Read more about this >>
  885 Hits
Tags:
event news
885 Hits
Stephen Conlin

FRIENDS' WORKING PARTY The historic mill at Polnička, Žďár nad Sázavou

MillPolnickaZdar1 cMSteibelt
The full extent of this project became apparent only as the work proceeded. We knew we were to clean out a disused mill and our combined team of Czech and UK volunteers spent a week clearing dirt and rubbish, which had lain undisturbed since the mill was last used in 1957.There was a tragic tale as the last miller was arrested and imprisoned by the...
Read more about this >>
  652 Hits
Tags:
event working holiday news
652 Hits
Stephen Conlin

Working Party in Žďár nad Sázavou

52 NewspaperZdarSmall
There was local publicity in Žďár nad Sázavou about our recent working party in June. The front cover of this newpaper has the caption 'The British on their knees. They're fixing monuments'.
  694 Hits
Tags:
event news
694 Hits
       
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10