He was characterised by stubbornness and eccentricity. His difficult character was balanced by his genius and extraordinary innovation. Tadeusz Tanski constructed the first cars for Poland and fought in the…

The Kościuszko Uprising is generally considered to have started with Tadeusz Kościuszko’s oath sworn in the Market Square in Kraków on 24 March 1794. However, its outbreak was precipitated primarily…

In the centre of Warsaw, on 8 March 1968, a protest rally involving several thousand students took place in the courtyard of the local university. Its brutal pacification by the…

Arthur Felix, who became famous for his method of diagnosing typhoid fever and for his research on salmonella, was born in Andrychów, then in the Austrian partition, about 50 km…

In 1652, deputy Władysław Siciński caused the first break-off of the Sejm in Poland. Although each member of the Sejm was entitled to a liberum veto, this constitutional principle had…

Polish scholars of the January Uprising have noted that the anti-Russian January Uprising (1863) began with black dresses and ended with them. Polish women wore black dresses and patriotic jewellery…

He came from a Jewish family that was involved in Polish independence aspirations.  Maurycy Bornsztajn fought for the Polish raison d’etat as much as for the health of mentally ill…

“Spotlihgt” was the code name chosen for the operation launched on 12 February 1955 by the New York-based Free Europe Committee and Radio Free Europe. It consisted of sending thousands…

On the evening of 7 March 1949, in a prison in Warsaw, the communists executed a group of 7 soldiers of the anti-communist underground, led by the legendary Major Hieronim…

He sang with a beautiful lyrical baritone. Mieczysław Fogg was a great Polish singer. However, not everyone knows that during the Second World War he fought for Poland and saved…