Latest Past Events

Polish History Seminar – POSTPONED

Dear Colleagues, The first PUNO history seminar of the 2025/2026 academic year will take place on Wednesday 24th September at 6.30pm (UK time). Dr Pawel Duber will give a talk titled 'Deprivation of Citizenship and Diplomatic Fallout: The 6 October 1938 Ordinance in Polish–Swiss Relations, 1938–1940'. The seminar will take place online via Zoom, See below […]

Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar

Public Responses to the Renaming of Commemorative Street Names in Post-communist Poland: Daily Lives, Experiences of Change and Sense of Place.   The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe did not bring about widespread destruction of the material heritage of communist dictatorships in the region. In fact, given that on the whole public acceptance of […]

Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar

15 January 2025          Dr Michał Przeperski, Polish History Museum, Warsaw Wild, Wild East: Transformation of People and Mentality in Poland, 1986-1993. Today everything is obvious: the dictatorial system collapsed, so the things are exactly as they should have been from the very beginning. But Poles in 1986 were not aware that they were living in […]