Today we publish pages 28 to 36 of this fascinating book by Zuzana Palovic, The Great Return, Slovakia’s Lost Daughters and Sons Come Home. Zuzana is a Central Eastern European migration expert. Her book tells the stories of people who went out into the world looking for wisdom and experience […]
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There were many times in the life of philanthropist Dr Jan Telensky that he thought he might never be able to return home. He was a victim of history, a youth driven from his family and his dreams by the invading forces he stood up against. At barely 18 he […]
History for me is such splendour. I would have loved to have lived in some of the eras gone by. People often say I was born in the wrong century, but I disagree. What time in history did we ever have where we could connect with each other worldwide with […]
In our town we have a house which was built four hundred years ago. It stands out like a battered thumb midst the Victorian school buildings, the Seventies ‘boxes’ and the dark Edwardian terraces. I say standing like a ‘battered thumb’ reluctantly because such a treasure should be standing with […]
Some say that Whitby’s red sky at night is its own bloody history burning like celluloid across the clouds. There is no doubt that this old fishing-smacked village on the North Yorkshire coast is a place where the roads of the dead have often crossed. And indeed shipping clerk Bram […]
The Turing-Welchman Bombe – the godfather of modern computers which deciphered Germany’s Enigma messages in the Second World War – is about to go on the move. A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise cash to build a new Bombe Gallery closer to the Colossus gallery. Putting them together […]
Exciting reports say that the mysterious missing main gate to Viniansky Castle has finally been found. The castle ruin in eastern Slovakia originally dominated a hill overlooking the trade route into Poland. But nobody has been able to pinpoint the original fortified entrance… until now. Historic researcher Jaroslav Gorás is […]
I’m looking back at many aspects of life in a small town, a suburb – my village; a typical Northern town where I happen to have been born and spent my entire life. Moston. I am reminded of a documentary on our TV screens a few years ago. It […]
Lagos is a city of mysteries. A history lesson with ghosts of slaves in the marketplace – and the vision of its own saint at the shrine near the “golden” church. When I arrived, one of the mysteries to me was why Lagos is pronounced with a ssshhh … Lago-ssshhh. […]
Norman was a slightly overweight little man of indeterminate age. He wore a cloth cap pulled down over his eyes as if he didn’t want to be seen or even to see anything. A simple man who had been a Bevin Boy conscripted to serve in the coal mines after […]