There was based the new scientific journal in Pilsen in 1958. His creator and head of editorial board professor Václav Čepelák from department of history at pedagogical highschool in Plzeň made it like a yearbook. It was focused on history of Westbohemian region and didactic&#...

Since the beginnings of his reform endeavours Comenius had showed an extraordinary interest in language teaching which he appreciated not only as a means of better communication but also as an instrument of human emendation. Although he had tried to improve teaching Latin and ...

Introduction of women into the academic and scientific world met with prejudices and misunderstanding of the major part of the society in the past. This trend was yet more evident in medicine than in other fields. It was most difficult to acquire university education in m...

The present study summarizes the testimonies of 11 witnesses who reflect their 21st August 1968 and also assess the subsequent developments in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic known today as “normalization”. The study was carried out within the university course “Oral History in Prac...

The paper looks at the journeys to Prague undertaken by the residents of the north Bohemian mining town of Krupka, their contacts with the capital (in particular with their manorial lord, who resided in Prague), and their viwe of events in Prague during the two decades&#x...