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The National Movement of Working Youth (Národní hnutí pracující mládeže, NHPM) as a Subject of Research and a Topic in Historiography
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This overview study explores the National Movement of Working Youth (Národní hnutí pracující mládeže, NHPM) as a historically under-researched case of left-wing youth resistance during the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Framed within the historiographical development of scholarship on the Second World War and resistance in Czechoslovakia, the article highlights the neglect of youth as a distinct historical and political subject. The paper analyses the origins, ideological orientation, and organisational transformation of the NHPM from its legal existence during the Second Republic to its illegal activities following the occupation in March 1939. Emphasis is placed on the role of the illegal press, inter-organisational cooperation, and internal tensions within the movement. The study also reflects on the methodological challenges related to source fragmentation and advocates the fuller integration of youth movements into broader research on resistance, political culture, and everyday life under totalitarian regimes
Výstava Ambition & Illusion. Schloss Eggenberg: Inszenierung der Welt, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 26. dubna – 2. listopadu 2025.
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The Daily Life of Count Eduard Mensdorff-Pouilly’s Family during the War Years 1939–1945
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The topic of this text is the quotidian life of an aristocratic family during the Second World War, that is, between 1939 and 1945. The head of the family was Eduard Mensdorff-Pouilly, the fourth son of Alfons Vladimir Mensdorff-Pouilly and the husband of Giselda, née Collalto e San Salvatore. His family of six children was heavily dependent on his father-in-law, Prince Manfred Collalto, whose financial and material support was necessary to maintain the family’s aristocratic living standards. The text details the family’s way of life during the war, including the upbringing of the children, their social circle, Eduard’s work, the family’s leisure activities, and finally the family’s escape from Czechoslovakia in 1945. Its description of quotidian life is based on Alfred Schütz’s concept of Umwelt and Mitwelt, two parts of an individual Lebenswelt, with particular attention being paid to the Umwelt
Academia Betwixt: Liminality and Transgression in David Lodge’s Changing Places
No full textDavid Lodge’s Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975) captures academia’s inherent liminality through its exchange academics on two campuses. This paper examines how Lodge frames academic exchange as a ritualized border-crossing, drawing on Arnold Van Gennep’s rites of passage and Victor Turner’s interstructural situations to analyze characters suspended between places and their liminal experiences, Philip Swallow’s transformative sojourn in America and Morris Zapp’s humbling exile in England. The novel’s geo-poetic contrasts – Euphoria’s sun-drenched ambition versus Rummidge’s industrial simplicity – portrays campuses as two distinct geographies where the forces of deterritorialization and reterritorialization unfold. Lodge’s formal experimentation – epistolary chapters, film scripts, and metafictional play – creates an alternative “narrative liminality” where readers inhabit a “third space” between fiction and reality. The analysis highlights key scenes which extend this liminality beyond the text. Ultimately, Changing Places transforms the campus novel into a comic but insightful study of transgression in which geographic, institutional, and textual border-crossings reveal the unstable fault lines beneath academic life.
NOTE: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 41st AAAS Annual Conference “Space Oddities: Urbanity, American Identity, and Cultural Exchange,” held at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria, November 21-23, 2014
 
The Installation of Maximilian Oldrich of Kounic-Rietberg as the Moravian Land Captain
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The Moravian Land Captain represented a leading figure who headed the Moravian royal tribunal and presided over the proceedings of the Land Diet and other provincial bodies. The path to this office was not an easy one. Candidates were required to meet high standards, and influential supporters at court were also indispensable. The pinnacle of this journey for the new captain was the ceremonial installation at the Land House in Brno. The aim of this study is to analyse the process of the Land Captain’s installation, from his selection to the subsequent celebrations
Advantages of Using Two-Speed Gearboxes in Wheelset Drives of Rail Vehicles BEMU
No full textČlánek se zabývá přínosy použití dvourychlostních převodovek v individuálním pohonu dvojkolí u regionálních vozidel BEMU. Analyzuje konstrukční možnosti použití příčného pohonu v trakčním dvounápravovém podvozku. Ukazuje možnosti energetické úspory trakční energie dosažitelné při vhodném řízení jízdy regionálního vozidla typu BEMU při použití asynchronního nebo synchronního trakčního motoru a jednostupňové nebo dvourychlostní převodovky.The article deals with the benefits of using two-speed gearboxes in individual wheel set drive in regional BEMU vehicles. It analyzes the design possibilities of using a transverse drive in a traction two-axle chassis. It shows the possibilities of energy saving of traction energy achievable with appropriate driving control of a regional BEMU vehicle using an asynchronous or synchronous traction motor and a single-speed or two-speed gearbox
Marek STARÝ, Terra felix. Dějiny Valdštejnova frýdlantského vévodství. I. díl. Geneze a rozsah vévodství, Praha, Auditorium 2024, 528 s. ISBN 978-80-87284-99-5.
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The Phenomenon of Adultification in R. Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
No full textThis article examines the representation of adultification in Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), focusing on how the narrative positions children within adult roles and responsibilities. Central to the analysis are the concepts of boundary dissolution and parentification, alongside the recurring tropes of the child redeemer and the lost child, and pervasive experiences of trauma and ennui. Through these frameworks, Riggs’s characters are shown inhabiting liminal identities that blur conventional distinctions between childhood and adulthood. Drawing on Kathryn Bond Stockton’s theory of “growing sideways,” the article explores how the peculiar children resist linear models of development and instead inhabit non-normative trajectories of growth shaped by delay, repetition, and queer temporality. By examining these narrative and psychological dimensions, the discussion highlights how Riggs portrays childhood as a space of burden, responsibility, and vulnerability. Ultimately, the article argues that Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children challenges conventional frameworks of childhood, offering a complex vision of growth and identity that unsettles developmental norms
Lenka KRÁTKÁ, Vzlety a pády. Pohled do historie Československých aerolinií v letech 1923–1993, Praha, Karolinum 2022, 508 s. ISBN 978-80-246-4143-0.
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VI Białostocka Letnia Szkoła Historii Kobiet, Augustów, 3.–10. srpna 2025.
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