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A Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures - Poland’s Heritage internet project

Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland’s Heritage is an international, educational exhibition which presents the history of tolerance and cohabitation of various ethnic groups in the territory of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Site designed by huncwot was made for National Library of Poland and polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Part of the Armenian collection
Project is divided into the eight sections, […]

Citizen historians discover the historical mystery of the birch inscription

In 1896 Danz, a forester from Gdansk, made an inscription from the trees in the Oliwa forest. Among pines and spruces he planted birches is such way, so they made an inscription “DANZ 1896″.
As Gazeta.pl writes, his work could be seen till the beginning of 20th century. After the WW2 inscription has disappeared. After the […]

HistoriaiMedia.org launches a new tiny RSS tool for digital historians

Feeds is our new tiny tool for all RSS-readers interested in topics of digital history. In this project hundreds of RSS sources from digital history blogs is being put into one feed after the appropriate selection (we want to show most interesting news and resources).
Using the base of RSS sources and functionality of Google Reader […]

After dictatorship in Argentina (1976-83) and Chile (1973-1990). Visual representations of collective experiences: documentaries, comics and shortfilms on youtube.com

The history of Latin America is full of mysteries and unspoken tragedies. This continent suffered by the dictatorships, by unstable governments or by military juntas. The most visible fact of analysing the history of this region is that tragedies affected the simple families, whose members were murdered in unclear circumstances. Till today, only a small […]

Unique collection of Warsaw Uprising Mail returns to Poland

Almost all of polish newspapers alarmed about the german auction in Duesseldorf, where famous collector Manfred Schulze put over 120 exhibits consisting of stamps, envelopes and private letters. Finally, this unique collection of Uprising’s souvenirs was bought by the Warsaw Uprising Museum for 190.000 Eu, which was an opening price.
Big album of polish correspondence signed […]

Earn as a professional knight

Historical reenactment and living history projects become in Poland more and more often commercial concepts. We have written about the brand new castle bulit near Opole. Every year medieval events such as Grunwald Battle are not only a chance for discovering and commemorating history, but also to make money on selling elements of new medieval […]

History Carnival #61

It is a time for publish another edition of monthly historical posts round-up. First of all, we would thank for all the submissions and remind you that the next edition of History Carnival will be hosted on 1 March at Spinning Clio.
Sport arena may become a territory of an international conflict. 200motels in post […]

Museum big as a half of polish province

People visiting this museum don’t need special slippers, because they don’t even look at the exhibits closed in the glass. In this case, it is usefull to have a notebook connected to the internet and to use GPS. Visitors walk through the forests of łódzkie voivodship, from Koluszki, to Krośniewice and Rogów, and have an […]

Andrzej Wajda’s “Katyn” has been nominated for Oscar

The newest Andrzej Wajda’s movie Katyn has been nominated for Oscar in the category of the best foreign language film of the year. Wajda got an Oscar for Life Achievement in 2000.
Katyn describes the history of the massacre of Polish officers in 1940. Taken prisoner by the Red Army in September 1939 they […]

Jožin z bažin and archaeological function of YouTube

One of the most popular video among polish internet users now is a czechoslovakian song from 1978 titled Jožin z bažin (eng. Joe from the bog).

English translation of the lirics one can find here. This song was showed even in the television news There are also many remixes of it available on YouTube. […]

Tomasz Szarota about the bounds of historical reenactment shows

In this year there is a 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising outbreak. As gazeta.pl writes, a one of the Warsaw historical reenactment group plans to prepare a performance showing fights of Jewish Military Union (Żydowski Związek Wojskowy, ŻZW) and Jewish Combat Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) against german soilders.
Tomasz Szarota, historian, professor […]

Mythmaking and its role at forming collective identity: jugoslavian, german and polish case

In understanding some social processes of the past, historians and social antropologists focus their attention on mythmaking as an essencial process of creating social identity. For last years, myths are not only defined by dreams and projections known from psychoanalisic discourse. They are perceived as immanent element of looking at the past, in the […]

History Carnival #61: Call for Submissions

We are very glad to maintain the first History Carnival hosted at the primary non-english-language blog. Our aim is to promote the idea of carnival among historical bloggers from the new countries, show how history can be described and experienced also by them and - of course - make a review of the most interesting […]

Film as a way of representing history

In the polish academic internet magazine Kultura i Historia one can find the article by Piotr Witek (PhD on the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin) about film as a one of the most important contemporary ways of representing history. The text is available in english in the Creative Commons licence, so it is free to […]

Jimmy Wales about using Wikipedia in school researches

Via The Wired Campus it can be found an article from BBC pages titled Students ’should use Wikipedia’. In his text Alistair Coleman presenting the problem of using Wikipedia in a school and academic research.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are “bad educators”. In his opinion […]

Hitler as a child in advertisement of children photographic studio

Yes, they were children just like you and your children, they were at that time normal, kind small boys, smiling to the photographer. Aren’t they sweet? - you may think but at the same time you postpone yourself: they are war criminals, responsible for terror and extermination of masses! So what they are doing on […]

The case of nazi symbols in Wikipedia - how to educate, but not to promote?

Wikipedia contains too much nazi symbolism? As it can be read on the Reuters site, german left-wing politician Katina Schubert withdrawed the charges against Wikipedia for promoting the use of banned Nazi symbols in Germany. In her opinion german Wikipedia contains too much nazi symbols, so it could be seen on the article describing the […]