Historia

An area of London could be renamed due to its namesake's historic links to slavery. more

Scientists have found and filmed one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks 107 years after it sank. more

"Such a find comes once in a lifetime," said Antonietta Lerz of the Archaeological Museum in London (MOLA), who is in charge of the Northwark excavation near The Shard. It was right next to this famous glass structure that a decorative mosaic from Roman times was discovered. Its age is estimated at almost two thousand years.more

The Center for Research on the History of the Polish State-in-Exile KUL has created a map of "Polish" London, which makes it possible to learn about the history of Polish political emigration of the 20th century. The map can be seen both on the website and in the form of an application.more

Queen Elizabeth II is not only the head of state, but also the head of the nation, this is a very important distinction, and reducing the monarch to a purely representative role is a great simplification - said Dr. Bob Morris, political scientist at University College London.more

Exactly 50 years ago - on January 30, 1972 - British soldiers shot and killed 14 participants in a peaceful demonstration in Londonderry / Derry, Northern Ireland. "Bloody Sunday", as this event was called, contributed to the further exacerbation of the conflict in the province.more

At the exhibition "The World of Stonehenge" at the British Museum in London, we will soon be able to see the famous Disc of Nebra live. The work, discovered in 1999 and estimated to be 3,600 years old, is probably the oldest surviving star map in the world.more

One of the greatest mysteries of the historical geography of Asia Minor was solved by a Polish diplomat. He found the remains of Thebasa, an ancient city in what is now Anatolia. They had been looking for him for two centuries.more

Statements indicating the co-responsibility of Poles for the Holocaust are not only scandalous, but also untrue, wrote the press spokesman of the Institute of National Remembrance, Dr. Rafał Leśkiewicz. The responsibility for the extermination of Jews during the Second World War rests with Nazi Germany, he recalled.more

It is not enough to remember about the victims of the Holocaust, but we must act to eradicate prejudices and anti-Semitism, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrated today.more

Today, on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - as a sign of deep pain and shame - all German representations in Poland lowered their flags to the middle of the mast - said the German ambassador to Poland, Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven.more

Knowledge about the activities of the Ładoś Group is growing in the world, each meeting on this topic helps to pass it on, but also helps us in establishing new facts, because this story is still being discovered - says Monika Maniewska, a researcher from the Pilecki Institute.more

A relatively unknown Jewish notary was identified as a suspect in the betrayal of Anne Frank's hiding place as a result of a 6-year investigation into the death of this famous Jewish diarist.more

The Germans not only wanted to plunder Poland, but to enslave and kill its inhabitants as well as destroy the culture - said historian Ramona Braeu in an interview for yesterday's issue of the weekly "Der Spiegel", researching the subject of the plunder committed by the Third Reich in Poland during World War II.more

Archaeologists working on the HS2 route have discovered how an Iron Age village in Northamptonshire developed into a wealthy Roman trading town.more

Established by a Pole, Henryk Bukowski, the famous Swedish auction house Bukowskis was taken over by the British auction house Bonhams - reported in Stockholm and London.more

The fossilized remains of a 10-foot-long "sea dragon" that turned out to be an ichthyosaur were found in the Rutland Water Nature Reserve, which consists of vast wetlands with numerous lagoons and islands, the BBC reports.more

The West is behaving towards Russia and Ukraine as it did during the Munich conference in 1938, when Czechoslovakia was handed over to Adolf Hitler, assesses today the French daily Le Figaro.more

The lives of every man, woman and child living in England and Wales in 1921 have been revealed like never before, with detailed census returns from Windsor Castle and Chequers to cramped family homes made available to the public for the first time.more

A photo album donated by the head of training for the Cichociemni and the names written on the wall of one of the rooms were found at the Audley End estate in England, where they received training during World War II before being dropped into German-occupied Poland.more

The trial of four defendants accused of toppling a statue of Edward Colston, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who made his fortune from the slave trade, during a demonstration by the Black Lives Matter movement began yesterday in Bristol, south-west England. Banksy announced on social media that he had designed T-shirts, the proceeds of which would go towards defending them.more

The little-known story of the Bialystok Ghetto copyists, a group of Jewish artists who were commissioned by the Nazis to make wholesale copies of masterpieces of European painting, is told in an exhibition inaugurated yesterday in Aberdeen, Scotland, called "I open my eyes, nobody".more

We wanted to show Poles and the French that Solidarity is alive, that we resist the communist regime. We managed to reach the French elite during martial law and tell our story, and not that of the communist authorities, of the repression of Poles by communists," said opposition activist Andrzej Dembiński, a Pole who illegally hung the Solidarity flag on the Eiffel Tower in Paris in February 1982.more

Less than a half (47%) of adult Poles remember the exact date of the introduction of martial law, i.e. December 13, 1981, while almost one fifth (19%) do not know this date at all, according to a CBOS poll conducted in November.more

The Passports for Life exhibition, prepared by the Pilecki Institute and dedicated to Polish diplomats who rescued Jews during World War II, can be viewed from yesterday at the Clapham Library in the London Borough of Clapham.more