Religionist Pavel Hošek discovered recordings of the speeches of the writer Bohumil Hrabal, who in the 80s of the last century regularly visited the evangelical congregation in Libica nad Cidlinou about Advent. “I was quite surprised how he fit in with the parishioners. The way he talked to them, it was as if they had … Read more
Historian Přemysl Houda’s book of more than three hundred pages, which has just been published, is devoted not only to the singer Jaromír Nohavic, but above all to his public image. Even in the subtitle on the cover, the word “his” is clearly crossed out and replaced by the term “ours”. So the title is: … Read more
Historian Přemysl Houda’s book of more than three hundred pages, which has just been published, is devoted not only to the singer Jaromír Nohavic, but above all to his public image. Even in the subtitle on the cover, the word “his” is clearly crossed out and replaced by the term “ours”. So the title is: … Read more
It was 1998 when Filipe Cabrita, a teenager from Faro in southern Portugal, applied to study medicine at Charles University. The Czech Republic was not a member of the European Union, the government was led by Miloš Zeman and the president was Václav Havel. The young Portuguese did not know much about the country and … Read more
Editor, writer and screenwriter Petr Hořejš, author of the extensive book series Wandering in the Czech Past, has died. The man who previously wrote under the pseudonym Petr Hora lived to be 84 years old. His wife Jitka Hořejsová informed about his death on Thursday. He started creating a series of books about Czech history … Read more