Many couples were forced to undertake dangerous, daring escape attempts to overcome their separation.

In Red Tape (Stanford University Press, 2024), Rosamund Johnston shows how Czechoslovak Radio became a site of negotiation between the regime, the listeners and the people who worked there. David M. D...

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From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

Millions of pounds will be spent on revamping a derelict Grade I listed building to create a new home for the British Library in Leeds, the government has announced.

Please be aware this vacancy is available on our Learning, Teaching & Scholarship track only. Job Purpose The School of Social and Political Sciences is seeking to appoint a fixed-term lecturer...

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Police have reopened the case of the death of former Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. Originally believed to be a suicide, a unit of the Czech Police now suspects murder.

Musine Kokalari paid a heavy price for opposing Albania’s slide into totalitarianism; a newly opened museum recalls her largely forgotten struggle for a more liberated society.

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