The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London invites Polish people living in the UK to participate in the #PolishGemsUK campaign, which encourages to discover and explore during the holiday period Polish "hidden treasures" in the British Isles.more
Pioneering physicist and chemist Marie Curie has been named the most influential woman in history in a list of 100 female trailblazers. The list was compiled by BBC History magazine after the publication conducted a poll among its readers.
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"Our goal was to show the world something positive about the Poles, show what they can afford" - admitted the producer of the movie "303. Battle for England" Krystian Kozłowski during the premiere of the picture about Polish pilots from 303 Squadron. The film will be released on August 17.more
The "cult of Alan Turing" has been taken to absurd extremes, the codebreaker's nephew has claimed as he argued that it had overshadowed Bletchley Park's debt to Polish cryptographers.more
Once again in the British Isles, the symbol of Polish airmen who fought in the Battle of Britain, will remind you about the Polish-British friendship and strong historical ties between our countries. Thanks to the Hurricane of Hearts, stickers with a white and red chessboard will appear in many British cities.more
A recent gorse fire on Bray Head in Co Wicklow has revealed an ÉIRE sign which dates from the Second World War. Such signs were made up of stones and carved into the ground in coastal areas around Ireland in order to warn Allied and German airmen that they were flying over a neutral country.more
We would not be here today without the heroes of World War II, without Warsaw insurgents; we must remember the generations that were before us - said today, on the 74th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.more
It started among the British Polonia for rumors that the image of a Polish pilot from the RAF Museum exhibition was being thrown into the cellar. One of the "faces" of the exhibition was Franciszek Kornicki. The employees of the London Museum ensure that they never removed the Polish accents of the anniversary exhibition.more
An "incredible" Tudor shipwreck found on mudflats in Kent by local volunteers looking for demolished Second World War pillboxes has been given protection.more
The London Jewish community honored people who helped the Jews during the Holocaust yesterday, including Irena Sendler and Janusz Korczak, revealing their plaques at the Hoop Lane cemetery in the north of the city.more
The London Museum of the Royal Air Force has been open to visitors during the weekend, after a costly refurbishment. The new exhibitions tell the story of the centenary of the RAF's existence this year, including Polish pilots fighting in the Second World War.more
"I hope this plaque will remind all of this great individual dedicated to the importance of sport & well-being of youth. He had such an enormous influence on many young lives" - said Polish ambasador Arkady Rzegocki.more
In Velennes, located in the north of France, a stele commemorating the ace of Polish air force in the United Kingdom, captain Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, was unveiled yesterday. On August 18, 1944, he was killed in a battle over this town.more
British Deputy Foreign Minister for European Affairs, Alan Duncan, warned that the reopening of the German reparations by the Polish government is associated with risk.more
Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Ambassador of Poland will be in Clifden tomorrow to unveil a plaque commemorating Pawel Edmund Strzelecki. He was a Polish explorer, scientist and philanthropist who carried out significant humanitarian work among victims of the Great Famine.more
Men who were convicted for being gay before it was decriminalised in 1993 will receive an apology from the government today. It comes ahead of a reception at Dublin Castle on Sunday to mark the 25th anniversary of decriminalisation.more
The 320 million-year-old stone landmark, found on Brimham Moor in north Yorkshire, was vandalised by five youngsters in what has been called an act of 'mindless destruction'.more
Mrs Malgorzata Kazimiera Goddard, Executive Officer, Polish Records Section, is receiving gongs in the Queen's Birthday Honours for "services to Defence and to the Polish Veterans' community".more
The co-leader of Germany's far-right AfD party has been accused of playing down the crimes of Nazi Germany. Diminishing the crimes of Nazi atrocities is extremely offensive in Germany.more
Britain's parliament will hold a debate on Poland's 'Holocaust law' on 5 June, after Alex Sobel MP, supported by 63 colleagues, warned that it is 'clearly antisemitic' and 'opens the door to revisionism and even potential for Holocaust denial'.more
The memory of the fallen on the 74th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino was commemorated with the appeal of the Memory, the playing of the hymn and the laying of wreaths. Veterans of World War II along with the government delegation paid a visit to the Polish War Cemetery in Italy yesterday.more
A statue that commemorates the Polish victims of a World War II massacre will be relocated on the Jersey City waterfront in an agreement that ends a war of words between city officials and Polish authorities. Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and the Katyn Forest Massacre Memorial Committee arrived at the agreement on Friday, and will announce the details on Monday, the Jersey Journal reported.more
