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Stalker who murdered Top Model leaves mysterious notes inside library book

Adding the mysterious handwritten notes into a book about the murder of 1990s model Agnieszka Kotlarska, the killer tried to wriggle out of responsibility for the slaying claiming it was an accident. Iza Michalewicz Reporterka/YouTube

Adding the mysterious handwritten notes into a book about the murder of 1990s model Agnieszka Kotlarska, the killer tried to wriggle out of responsibility for the slaying claiming it was an accident.

Fascinating never-before-seen photos offer rare glimpse of pre-war Poland

Taken in the 1930s by a French WWI veteran visiting the country, the candid pictures offer a remarkable insight into a long-forgotten past.

New chapter in ‘lost Jewish library mystery’ as books returned to Lublin from Berlin

The religious books come from the original collection in the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva which was once the largest Talmudic school in the world. The fate of the library is one of the biggest wartime mysteries of Lublin.

Archivists uncover long-lost Komeda compositions

Composed for his last European project, the six handwritten manuscripts are from a project entitled “Moja słodka europejska ojczyzna” (My sweet European homeland) which Komeda established in 1967 in the German city of Baden-Baden on the theme of Jazz and Poetry.

Lublin library crowned for design excellence in international awards competition

Praising the library for ‘probably being the greenest library in Europe’,  the A' Design Award judges said: “It is a project inspired by nature, ecology and the idea of sustainable development.

Bookworm heaven: Automatic 24hr book dispensers set to become 2022’s newest trend

First appearing in Łódź’s Manufaktura complex in the summer of 2020, the idea has since taken off rapidly with an increasing number of cities getting in on the act.

Researchers to create ‘library of historic smells’

In what has been described as a ‘breakthrough project’ the initiative will analyse the odours and their historical significance in an attempt to develop a new interpretation of the artefacts.

Poland to spend EUR 238 mln to promote reading

Poland will spend over PLN 1.08 billion (EUR 238 million) in 2021-25 to promote reading through investments in public and school libraries, and promotional activities, the culture minister has said.

Making hairstory! Strand of 500-year-old hair found inside 16th century book

Researchers at Warsaw’s University Library came across the strand inside Thomasinus de Ferraria’s Sermones Quadragesimales during work on the manuscript.

Gorgeous atlases worth up to a staggering 400,000 zł finally conserved after two YEARS of painstaking work

The 23 titles in 32 volumes at the Raczyński Library in Poznań include the "Civitatum aliquote insignarum et locorum magis munitorum exacta delineatio" published in Venice in 1574 – the oldest atlas in the library’s collection and one of the oldest around.

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