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Collaborations between the British Museum and the Czechoslovak National Gallery in 1980s. Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 6.30pm in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, London W8 4QY. Between 1983 and 1987, as part of a cultural agreement between the UK and Czechoslovakia, the speaker, then a very junior member of the British Museum staff, was instruct...
The ancient Bohemian Crown Jewels, rarely exhibited in the past, will now be shown every year. Our patron Eva Jiřičná, as one of the most famous Czech architects, designed this year's exhibition in the Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle. This exhibition also highlights the jewels' fate during World War 2 and conincides with the 80th anniversary...
Our event by Richard Bassett on Tuesday 7th October 2025 in the Czech Embassy London brought in a full house for a very absorbing talk on a vast subject. This was followed by a long and interesting discussion. Maria Theresa was supremely successful in surrounding herself with the best people and advisers available to achieve her lasting legacy in C...
Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is listed Grade I. Kelmscott Manor was the country home of the writer, designer and socialist William Morris from 1871 until his death in 1896. Rodmarton Manor is a la...
The restoration and repurposing of the textile factory previously owned by the Low-Beer family and now in the care of a trust headed by Daniel Low-Beer, a descendent of the original owners. The factory has become the Museum of Survivors, a centre for study, reconciliation and creativity, which opened on 10th May 2025. The Friends supported the proj...
Saturday 24th May, 2025. Participants met at Hampstead Underground Station at 10.30am. The walk from Hampstead to Belsize Park is a rich mixture of architecture from the late Regency to the 20th century, home to writers, artists, architects, refugees and spies. We visited a classic 1930s building, 2 Willow Road, wandered down Keats Grove to the edg...
The British Czech & Slovak Association Jointly with The Friends of Czech Heritage ON ZOOM from 18.30 - 19.30 on Monday 19th May 2025 As Europe faces yet another major crisis only 80 years after World War Two and confronts the threat of war while latter-day dictators set the terms of peace in Ukraine, it is timely to revisit the role and aim of ...
'A Life in Bat'a Modernism - Straight Lines, Flat Roofs & Planned Communities' Sir John Tusa's talk on the life and work at Bata's factories and communities in Zlín in Moravia and East Tilbury in England attracted a full house. Sir John's father ran the factory in East Tilbury. The audience included two former UK ambassadors to the Czech ...
A Talk by Sir John Tusa on Tuesday 8th April 2025, 6.30pm, in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY. Sir John Tusa was born in Zlín. Two days before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939, John’s father flew out of Czechoslovakia on a Bat'a company plane via Poland, Yugoslavia and France...
Architect Eva Jiřičná has been awarded the highest honour bestowed by the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion At a ceremony in the Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle marking Czech Independence Day last week, on October 28th 2024, hosted by Czech President Petr Pavel, the London-based architect was among more than 50 people decorated for outsta...
