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This section focuses on Czechoslovak history between 1938 and 1945. In a broader context, it examines selected themes concerning the history of the Protectorate of Böhmen und Mähren, the home resistance movements, exile foreign policy and the history of the Czechoslovak army units. Where appropriate, it also looks at the general history of the Second World War.

The results of the research are presented in the form of material and of monographic studies. A significant part of the activity of the section is the preparation of editions of documents pertaining to the occupation, or the Protectorate, together with those relating to the Czechoslovak exile. Some of this research is funded by grants and the work itself is carried out in cooperation with other centres concentrating on history.

Employees of this section, besides giving lectures at universities, are involved in organizing conferences and seminars. They also devote their attention to the dissemination of new academic knowledge by cooperating with the media, educational institutions and various interest associations for which they provide consultations and thematic lectures.

Stanislav Kokoška


 


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Bruce Lockhart Lecture at the Embassy of the United Kingdom on 5 June in the evening: Profesor Richard Overy (University of Exeter) lecturing on British political warfare and occupied Europe.
Photo: British Embassy
The first conference panel called The existence and challenges faced by the exile governments in London (part 1). Anticlockwise: Albert Kersten (University of Leyden), Chantal Kesteloot (Centre for Historical Research, Brussels), Anita J. Prazmowska (The London School of Economics and Political Science), Detlef Brandes (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf), Mark Cornwall (chair; University of Southampton), Jan Bečka (Charles University – Faculty of Social Sciences)
The second conference panel called The existence and challenges faced by the exile governments in London (part 2). From left to right: Vít Smetana (conference co-ordinator; Institute for Contemporary History, Prague), Jiří Ellinger (chair; Foreign Ministry, Prague), Edita Ivaničková (The Institute of History, Bratislava), Radoslaw Zurawski vel Grajewski (Lodz University), Viktoria Vasilenko (Belgorod State University)

The international conference CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE OTHER OCCUPIED NATIONS IN LONDON: The Story of the Exile Revisited after Seventy Years 6-7 June 2013

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