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A wide-ranging publication that is sent to you as part of your subscription.

Our Projects
Barbara Peacock

Prestigious Scholarship
Barbara Peacock

The English Country House
Jana Pluharová

Two Decades of Freedom....
Josef Jařab

Comenius - 'Teacher of Nations'
Marion Werner
 
News & Reviews
An Architectural Companion to Bohemia and Moravia by Brian Knox
David Sommerlad

Lecture: Dr I.Murray
Peter Jamieson

Lecture: C. Cannon-Brookes Charles Thomson

Summer Outing: Kelmscott Peter Jamieson

First Impressions Elizabeth Wiggans

You may download The English Country House and Two Decades of Freedom here (PDF download
232KB)

Newsletter Issue 4

News and Restorations Chairman and Vice-chairman
A Visit to South Bohemia Ian Kennaway
A Collalto Portrait Restored Dr Z. Vácha
From America with Love Steven E. Brummel  You may download this article here, 700KB
The Romantic Gothic Castle of Bouzov Barbara Peacock
Barking Against the Church: John Wycliffe and Jan Hus Jocelyn Rendall
Sir Charles Mackerras Obituary

Newsletter Issue 3

Read about what happened when a banned film director and his wife took over one of the oldest castles in South Bohemia; the legacy of Tomas Bat'a, a shoe magnate; Prague’s Old Town Hall clock that works on the same medieval principles it did 600 years ago; plus features on music, art and architecture that spring from the heart of Europe. You may download the first article mentioned above, by clicking here.

Newsletter Issue 2  You may download the cover article in its entirety, The Lively World of Prague Cafés here (262KB PDF). The author Eva Bendová is a co-author of the book Pražské kavárny a jejich svět, published by Paseka in 2008. She is a curator at the National Gallery in Prague.

You may download an article about the background to the founding of The Friends here.



You may download Newsletter Issue 1 in PDF format here
(3.2 MB).