Poland

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That “anarchic” and “fanatical” Poland was partitioned by its more “enlightened”, “tolerant” absolutist neighbours.’

Bolesław Chrobry was finally crowned king of Poland on 18 April 1025. It was an elevation two decades in the making.

In Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Tim Blanning looks for a legacy for the ‘incorrigible Saxon’.

As the last living perpetrators are brought to justice, Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century by Tobias Buck wonders what purpose the prosecution of Bruno Dey serves.

The story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is typically one of defiance against the odds during the Holocaust. But what of those unable to fight?

A panoramic portrait of Józef Piłsudski, the man who ‘towers over modern Poland’.

In the decades before the First World War, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people. 

Wedged between Russia, Prussia and Austria, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced extinction in the 18th century.

A new law exposes the problematic nature of Holocaust remembrance.

The legacy of Marie Skłodowska Curie, the world's most famous female physicist, is assured, but in her lifetime, she was a controversial figure.