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The British Czech & Slovak Association Jointly with The Friends of Czech Heritage ON ZOOM from 18.30 - 19.30 on Monday 19th May 2025 As Europe faces yet another major crisis only 80 years after World War Two and confronts the threat of war while latter-day dictators set the terms of peace in Ukraine, it is timely to revisit the role and aim of ...
Saturday 24th May, 2025. Meet at Hampstead Underground Station at 10.30am. The walk from Hampstead to Belsize Park is a rich mixture of architecture from the late Regency to the 20th century, home to writers, artists, architects, refugees and spies. We visit a classic 1930s building, 2 Willow Road, wander down Keats Grove to the edge of Belsize Par...
Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is listed Grade I. Kelmscott Manor was the country home of the writer, designer and socialist William Morris from 1871 until his death in 1896. Rodmarton Manor is a la...
A Talk by Sir John Tusa on Tuesday 8th April 2025, 6.30pm, in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY. Sir John Tusa was born in Zlín. Two days before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939, John’s father flew out of Czechoslovakia on a Bat'a company plane via Poland, Yugoslavia and France...
The talk by Professor Mark Cornwall, on 28th January 2025, in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, London W8 4QY, was extremely popular. He explored the subject of secret police surveillance in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. Prof. Cornwall drew on his own surveillance file, asking why, when and where he was being followed and assessed by the ...
Edward Peacock writes: "Congratulations to The Friends of Czech Heritage and Caroline Cannon-Brookes for such an interesting talk last night, illustrating historic links between Britain and Bohemia over the centuries. We saw the Bohemian Queen of England, Richard II’s wife Anne; we tried to reform the Church with Wycliffe and Hus; we went sightseei...
Brněnec is a village in the Pardubice Region. The Low-Beer family founded a textile-producing company here more than 200 years ago. The factory was confiscated after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in 1938 and in 1944 Oskar Schindler took it over. What happened next was the basis for Schindler's Ark, the historical novel by Thomas ...
The resort town of Teplice nad Metují is situated in rolling, forested country of northern Bohemia near the Czech border with Poland. The Baroque Church of the Virgin Mary has a historic hermitage attached to it, which is being painstakingly restored by a small local group of volunteers. The work this year included stone walling, plastering and lim...
Professor Vladimír Šlapeta’s lecture in the Czech Embassy on 'Czech Functionalism' in the inter-war period, was a revelation. His unrivalled command of his subject gave the audience a privileged view of the astounding creativity of the Czechoslovak nation during this period. Image, from left to right: Ivan Margolius (architectural historian), Sir J...
The Friends held a very successful volunteer working party at the Abbey Church at Žďár nad Sázavou in Moravia in late May when they were joined by members of the church. We accomplished two tasks. The first was the removal of the rotten pine shingle capping on the boundary of the Lower Cemetery (which was in fact never used for burials), designed b...
