Historia

Big Ben will chime again over the Christmas period despite being shrouded in scaffolding as it undergoes extensive - and controversial - restoration.more

Beer was ranked alongside bread as the most important dietary staple in early modern Ireland, and some workers were granted a daily allowance of 14 pints of ale, a study has found. Dr Susan Flavin, Lecturer in Early Modern History at Anglia Ruskin University, examined evidence from household accounts, soldiers' rations and port books from 16th century Ireland.more

Public outcry on Twitter as many British realize horrors of Ireland's Great Hunger for the first time. The top-rated British drama "Victoria," about the monarch who ruled during the Irish Famine, shocked British viewers to the core with the realistic presentation of that horrific event.more

The majority of votes were for Franciszek Kornicki, the last surviving Polish Air Force squadron commander who celebrated his 100th birthday in 2016.more

Britain's Daily Mirror has wrongly referred to Hans Frank, the German Nazi who ruled occupied Poland in WWII, as a "Polish mass murderer" in a recent article published online.more

In Poland and the United Kingdom, on vests of construction workers, business men's jackets, car windows, ladies' purses and glasses - checkers stickers of Polish pilots who fought at the Battle of Britain hit the streets of the United Kingdom. This gesture of Polish-British friendship was thanked by Elizabeth II.more

Franciszek Kornicki, a Polish WWII squadron leader, won an online poll to pick heroic RAF Spitfire pilots to be highlighted at a special exhibition.more

The German aircraft was hijacked by Palestinian militants in 1977 and taken to Somalia. The plane, which is a reminder of the so-called "German Autumn," will now be put on display at a museum in Friedrichshafen.more

Franciszek Kornicki, 100, admitted he was "a little dazed" by the news that he was ahead of British fighter aces including Sir Douglas Bader in the People's Spitfire Poll - and leading by more than 300,000 votes.more

The most distinctive-looking house on Frankfort Avenue in Rathgar comes with a distinctive past. Number 1 was once home to Constance Gore-Booth, who on her marriage to the Polish painter - the self-styled Count Markievicz - took the title and became Countess Markievicz.more

Next year the Royal Air Force will be celebrating it's 100th anniversary. Since 1918, they have been protecting us from the sky - our nation's very own guardian angels.more

That was what one senior financier told me at a recent dinner when I asked him about his Brexit contingency plans.more

The go-ahead at Stonehenge for a controversial £1.6 million road tunnel should be met with scepticism not only because of the archaeological considerations that threaten its World Heritage Status, but also because the heritage attraction can't seem to get the basic tourist experience right.more

London's Polish Hearth yesterday celebrated the 90th birthday of Major Sergey Paplinski -"Jackdaw".more

Every Saturday in September residents of London may take part in a three-hour cycling trip to places associated with the English writer of Polish origin Joseph Conrad.more

Maciej Socharski and Henryk Sikorski - two members of the Polish crew of the Vickers Wellington bombers from World War II - rested yesterday at the Amsterdam cemetery.more

The controversy over statues being pulled down following white supremacist marches in the US has reached the shores of Britain. A journalist has sparked outrage after she suggested that Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square 'should be next', claiming the naval hero 'vigorously defended' the slave trade.more

A sapphire and diamond coronet designed by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria has been acquired by the V&A Museum. It was previously sold by a London dealer to an overseas buyer but was blocked from export by the government in 2015.more

Polish leaders attended ceremonies at dawn on Friday marking the 78th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.more

Polish Hussars on display at Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds.more

A Polish pilot who died after his Spitfire crashed in Ratoath was remembered in a commemorative ceremony. more

Polish hussars from Gniew castle will be main attraction in Leeds museum during the bank holiday weekend.more

The signature of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939 led to the deportation, torture and murder of tens of millions of people under totalitarian regimes.more

We are approaching the celebration of the 76th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, which united British and Polish soldiers in the fight against the common Nazi enemy. Air battle between the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe was crucial to the success of further military operations against the Third Reich. Invaluable merits are of our heroic pilots who were famous for great courage.more

The Battle of Warsaw refers to the decisive Polish victory in 1920 during the Polish-Soviet War. Poland, on the verge of total defeat, repulsed and defeated the invading Red Army.more