Churchill’s favourite spy? An inspiration for Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale? Britain’s longest serving WWI Special Agent, male or female, and the first British female agent to serve in the field was a Polish agent called Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville. Coming to be known for her daring exploits, she was once described as “the bravest of the brave”. In this episode of Heart of Poland, author, historian and biographer of Krystyna Skarbek, Clare Mulley, talks about Skarbek’s remarkable life story and why she should be seen as much more than just a Bond girl.
VIDEO: Coloured using a pioneering technique, the six-minute film titled simply ‘Warsaw 1915 In Colour’ is a stunning work that captures both the excitement and trepidation that greeted the early stages of the First World War.
The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have issued a statement expressing concern at Russian historical revisionism and in particular the possible closure of the 'Memorial' international historical and civil rights society.
The post-industrial city located in central Poland and historically associated with the textile trade was the only Polish city on the list and was selected among five cities in the ‘Sustainability’ category, with the other categories being Nature, Adventure, Culture and History.
Feared and respected in equal measure, for centuries the memory of the Yotvingians survived in handed-down stories of locals in the Suwałki and Augustów regions of Podlasie, but little was known about who they really were.
Written in Cyrillic script and considered among the greatest works of world cartography, the 1:2500 scale hand-drawn colour street plans are so precise that the shape of each building can be discerned and individual trees can be seen.
Taking Marcin Tobolski, Krzysztof Tobolski and Marcin Pietrucha seven years to complete, the models were constructed on a 1:50 scale with the trio working in close cooperation with historians to ensure accuracy.
Eminent Polish-Jewish composer and pianist Władysław Szpilman was a household name in pre-WWII Warsaw, but it was his miraculous story of survival during the war that would later form the basis for the Oscar-winning film ‘The Pianist’.
For over 100 years, Polish Press Agency’s photographers have immortalised the most important social, political, cultural and sporting events in Poland and around the world.
According to the French real estate agents, the house in Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, around 40 km from Paris, which includes tapestries and terracotta from the Curies’ era, needs an extra EUR 200,000 in renovation.
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