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Historyczne artykuły naukowe za darmo / Historical scholarly articles for free

W ramach wydawanego w Cambridge historycznego pisma naukowego The Historical Journal opublikowano niedawno jubileuszowy, pięćdziesiąty numer. Stąd na stronach http://journals.cambridge.org udostępniono 20 artykułów pochodzących z całego okresu istnienia pisma.
Warto - biorąc pod uwagę profil naszego serwisu - polecić szczególnie takie teksty jak:
Nations and Nationalism in Modern German History (1990)
John Breuilly, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. […]

Communist heroes go into service with advertising

As we can read in polish Dziennik and in english followthemedia.com, russian web portal “Russia Today” is using Stalin in the advertising action.
Russia Today has been running a “different” campaign in English language newspapers using that great pitchman, Joe Stalin, with the slogan, “Proud To Be Different.” (…) “Stalin wrote romantic poetry. Did you know […]

A movie will fight with the “polish death camps” term

Today in Toronto there is a premiere of an educational polish movie “Upside down”, which was made against the case of very common statements about “polish death camps”.
The movie shows how popular is this term among especially young people in America and West Europe and that it has absolutely no connection with the historical facts.
But […]

The use of history in politics - some examples from polish actual parlament elections

Roger Boyes writes in The Times about political use of new film by Andrzej Wajda’s.
The article describes a situation, where the Kaczynski twins (President and Prime Minister) try to use Katyn memory for contemporary campaign (on 21st of October there is an parlament election in Poland). President Kaczynski planned to organise the great ceremony for […]

To preserve virtual creativity and digital heritage - how to archive early video games, electronic literature and Second Life?

How to preserve virtual songs and shows of Mel Cheeky in the world of Second Life? She is only an avatar of real Melanie Fudge and plays in the world of Second Life. How can her on-line creativity be archived and opened for anybody?
As it can be found here, the new project is being […]

Wikipedia as primary source for professional historical research? The case of on-line IPN catalogue

Yesterday the polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) started to publishing its catalogue indexes. Available on the specjal website katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl data contain information about resources related to (among other things) staff of the communistic security services and important members of parties such as PPR, PZPR or a facade party of the communists (after 1944) - […]

Taste the esthetics of People’s Republic of Poland

If you want to discover, how the Polish “Converse” (Jogin Zlotoryja snickers) looked like or download the desktop icons with the most popular signs of PRL, go to the new site Pantuniestal.com.
On the site one can find the presentation of the polish esthetics, industrial design and popculture gadgets till the symbolic end of comunistic state […]

Katyń commemoration: Barbara Szacka and new Andrzej Wajda’s movie

A new Andrzej Wajda’s movie “Katyń” is now being shown in polish cinemas. The film story of the execution of 22.000 polish officers at Katyn by agents of the NKWD became a part of all-Polish Katyń commemoration. Wajda stressed that the film would not have seen the light of day during the communist period. He […]

The power of medieval representations - brand new castle built near Opole

“Gazeta Wyborcza” writes about probably the second new castle build in Poland for the groups of historical medieval reconstruction. Object is placed in Byczyna near Opole.
Anita Dmitruczuk writes in her article, that in this place we can feel like in the medieval times. Maybe it is true, but that feelings depends on the one’s sensibility […]

Westerplatte - young people fight for the historical memory

On last Saturday Poland marks the 68th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 2. Official celebrations took place in Westerplatte and also in Wieluń - the first city bombed by German Luftwaffe.
But not only official speeches are the expressions of World War 2 memory. From a few years, the great work in the case […]

Bikes and historical education - “Uprising critical mass”

Commemoration of 62 anniversary of Warsaw Uprising is a main idea of Uprising critical mass, which is being organised tommorow (3rd of August) in Warsaw, Poland.
Critical Mass is an event, which takes place in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse.
As it is shown now in Poland, the critical mass […]

„Denkmal für ermordeten Juden Europas” - bezbronność przeszłości / defencelessness of the past

„Denkmal für ermordeten Juden Europa” - this is the official title of the project realised in Berlin by Peter Eisemann. His conception discarded the use of any symbolism in this work. Eisemann emphaised that for him this blocks of the stone has no symbolic idea. Now, the space of the monument is, as it can […]

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