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The restoration and repurposing of the textile factory previously owned by the Low-Beer family and now in the care of a trust headed by Daniel Low-Beer, a descendent of the original owners. The factory has become the Museum of Survivors, a centre for study, reconciliation and creativity, which opened on 10th May 2025. The Friends supported the proj...
Saturday 24th May, 2025. Participants met 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 visited a classic 1930s building, 2 Willow Road, wandered down Keats Grove to the edg...
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 ...
'A Life in Bat'a Modernism - Straight Lines, Flat Roofs & Planned Communities' Sir John Tusa's talk on the life and work at Bata's factories and communities in Zlín in Moravia and East Tilbury in England attracted a full house. Sir John's father ran the factory in East Tilbury. The audience included two former UK ambassadors to the Czech ...
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...
Architect Eva Jiřičná has been awarded the highest honour bestowed by the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion At a ceremony in the Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle marking Czech Independence Day last week, on October 28th 2024, hosted by Czech President Petr Pavel, the London-based architect was among more than 50 people decorated for outsta...
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...
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi is recognised as one of the founders of the Pan European movement in the inter-war period and whose influence can be seen in the founding of the European Union. His family château at Poběžovice is steadily being restored from its ruinous state by the local municipality and The Friends have given a grant towards the conser...
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 ...
