This dissertation examines the emergence and development of the post-war political consensus in Britain from 1945 to 1955. This concept suggests a deep consensus on key political issues such as the economy, social and health policy, the organisation of trade unions. There are vario...

The Four-Power Pact, proposed by Benito Mussolini in March 1933, was to represent the cooperation of Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany. Mussolini first mentioned the idea of cooperation in a speech to supporters in Turin in the autumn of 1932, but at that time it&#...

The role of widows in the artisan-agrarian urban society in East-Central Europe was usually narrowed down to the position of provisional manager of the bequeathed property until a male heir reached adulthood. However, some individual stories show us that women often times were also...

This paper focuses on two leading figures of West Bohemian Catholicism - Bishop Josef Hlouch and Archbishop Josef Beran. The main part of the text is focused on their joint internment in the years 1952-1963 in the secret government buildings of Růžodol, Myštěves and Paběnice.

The aim of the study is to summarise several factors which greatly infl uenced the course of British-German relations on an alliance and at the same time explain the foundations for the actual emergence of these negotiations. Within the framework of the established goals, it&#...