Historia

A special exhibition recognising the outstanding contribution the Polish Air Force made during the Second World War was opened today at the Battle of Britain Bunker Exhibition and Visitor Centre in Uxbridge. more

An international medical team involving doctors from Spain and the US will begin genetic testing in June to determine the origin of the sailor Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America.more

In scrubland north of Edgware stand the crumbled remains of a Tube line that was never finished and has largely been forgotten about. more

The Polish Club in Kirkcaldy, Fife, has been a centre of social and cultural life for almost 70 years. It was founded by veterans who were unable to return home after fighting in World War Two.more

The figure of Ignacy Jan Paderewski was the subject of an international scientific conference held yesterday - remotely - at the Polish University Abroad (PUNO) in London. more

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader convicted of genocide during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, is to serve the rest of his life sentence in a British jail.more

Two wrecks found in 2019 near Vaxholm near Stockholm are the warships "Apollo" and "Maria", which were used by the King of Sweden, Charles X Gustav, to invade Poland in the 17th century, archaeologists said.more

British soldiers unjustifiably shot or used disproportionate force in the deaths of nine of the 10 innocent people killed in a 1971 incident in Belfast that sparked an upsurge of violence during Northern Ireland's "Troubles," a judge-led inquiry found.more

Yesterday, on the eve of the 76th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, the ambassadors of Poland and the Czech Republic, Arkady Rzegocki and Libor Seczka, laid wreaths together on the grave of Josef Frantisek, the pilot of Squadron 303, one of the heroes of the Battle of Great Britain.more

The Tower of London is celebrating the end of its longest closure since the Second World War by asking the public to name its latest arrival: a raven chick.more

The Constitution of May 3 is an important contribution to the European heritage and should be an inspiration for the whole of Europe, wrote President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda in a text published yesterday in the British magazine "The Critic".more

Most Greeks want Germany to pay for their country's destruction in World War II. According to research conducted by various centers, support for reparations ranges from 90 to as much as 97 percent.more

Yesterday, representatives of the Polish Embassy in London and Polish organizations paid tribute to the victims of the Katyn massacre by taking part in a solemn mass and by laying flowers at the Katyn Monument.more

Alexander Medvedev, a history enthusiast and detectorist, found a naked sword, a scabbard, a knight's belt and two knives attached to it - probably from the Battle of Grunwald, he handed the discovery to the marshal of the region, and this one - to the Battle of Grunwald Museum.more

The Polish resistance movement tried to help the insurgents in the Warsaw ghetto, so the claim that the Poles were indifferent to the uprising is not justified, but whatever the help, there was no chance of any other outcome than its defeat - believes British historian Roger Moorhouse.more

During the construction of a gas station in Avellino in southern Italy, workers found, as evidenced, the remains of an ancient amphitheater. Construction has been suspended. It was planned to lay blocks of cement at the site where the discovery was made.more

A Roman villa unearthed on a building site has been described as potentially "the first of its kind" ever found. The remains of the large "stately home" and bath house were found on a site in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire.more

Representatives of the Polish community in the USA asked President Joe Biden for help "in revealing the truth about the causes of the Smolensk catastrophe." They also called for support from the US administration regarding the return by Russia of the wreckage of the crashed plane.more

April 10 is a black date in recent history. In 2010, President Lech Kaczyński, the First Lady, members of the delegation at the ceremony in Katyn and the crew of the plane died in the crash near Smolensk - emphasized today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.more

In Canada, a monument is being built to commemorate Polish airmen who fought in World War II, as well as Polish ground personnel in RAF and Women's Auxiliary Service.more

Despite the opinion of the United Nations and international courts, the United Kingdom does not want to give Mauritius the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, on which the US military base operates. more

Young generations know almost nothing about what communism led to, so we need to act now, while we still have people whose memories can be preserved, says James Bartholomew, director of the Museum of Communist Terror in London.more

The publication of "The New Yorker" is scandalous because it tries to create Poland's responsibility for the extermination of Jews during World War II, assessed the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk. As he informed, the Polish embassy in Washington also reacted strongly in this matter.more

A Scottish university will return a sculpture of a king up to a few centuries old to Nigeria, back home after it was looted by British soldiers over 120 years ago, the university announced Thursday.more

Google is acting too slowly in response to reported anti-Semitic "reviews" of users regarding the Auschwitz museum, the company admitted in reaction to the reports of the British daily "The Guardian". The company announced an improvement.more