The subject of reflection is a special casus of Leopold Staff’s biography. The author contemplates him in the perspective of a biographical anti-legend (Staff as a writer without a biography) and creative legend (Staff as ...

Michał Czajkowski was a nineteenth-century writer - a representative of the so- called school of the Ukrainian romanticism, politician and military. He took part in the uprising in November, went to emigrate, where on the ...

A pioneer of research into the social history of the Warsaw Ghetto, Ruta Sakowska, employed the term ‘civil resistance’ in her research. Because the approach proposed by Sakowska is a holistic one, it may be especially ...

Reading Polish interior design publications can be a starting point for analysing the housing situation in the People’s Republic of Poland, the offer of the furniture industry and even customs. At the same time, by looking ...

This article is based on sources from the Bartoszewicz Family Archive, held at the State Archive in Łódź. It presents the everyday life of Warsaw’s intelligentsia in the 19th century from the perspective of household ...

During the period of the formation of Polish statehood, Polish socialists wanted their homeland to be ultimately based on two ideas – democracy and socialism. For this reason, they participated in the establishing of a ...

The article presents one of the episodes of the history of Bulgarian national liberation movement in the first half of 19th century, which went down in history under the name ‘Velcho’s Conspiracy’. The text covers the ...

The article analyses the Mongol Empire domestic politics in the years 1221–1229. It is devoted to the problems of succession that occurred after the Mongol army withdrawal from the Khwarazmian campaign. It questions the ...

Rozprawa doktorska podejmuje istotną w zakresie geografii turyzmu, problematykę znaczenia usług gastronomicznych w działalności hoteli w Polsce. Podstawowym celem rozprawy było określenie znaczenia jaką współcześnie pełnią ...

While Queen Victoria is often regarded as Britain’s first media monarch, this study argues that Albert was the first royal consort to be shaped by the press. Using a wide range of sources, including major London newspapers, ...