Tag: history

Tradition Invented

Soul + Body

Good Food

Tradition Invented

It can be tempting to consider a nation’s traditional food as a product solely of that culture. Yet the reality is more complex. Cuisine is in constant flux; always being reinvented.

Monika Kucia

20th September 1519

Art + Stories

Experiences

20th September 1519

On this day in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan set sail for the Maluku Islands under the banner of Spain. Yet his attempt to circumnavigate the globe was seemingly doomed from the start...

Adam Węgłowski

27th August 1939

Art, Experiences

27th August 1939

On this day in 1939, Poland was on the brink of war with Germany. But the country was also celebrating a famous victory over the footballing stars of Central Europe, Hungary.

Adam Węgłowski

An Introduction to Anna Świrszczyńska’s Warsaw Uprising Poems

Art + Stories

Experiences

An Introduction to Anna Świrszczyńska’s Warsaw Uprising Poems

Anna Świrszczyńska’s poetry undertakes a feminine revision of one of the most tragic events in Polish history, remaining timeless to this day.

Julia Fiedorczuk

Three Poems on the Warsaw Uprising

Art + Stories

Fiction

Three Poems on the Warsaw Uprising

“I’ll hide in the wall, I’ll go into the wall / like a centipede. / Everyone will die, and I / will survive.” Three poems by Anna Świrszczyńska (Anna Swir) from her 1974 collection “Building the Barricade”.

Anna Świrszczyńska

Cycling Notebooks

World + People

Dreams and Visions

Cycling Notebooks

In 1939, the 26-year-old Pole Andrzej Bobkowski found himself stranded in France. He started to keep a diary of his everyday experiences as an outsider in an occupied country. We present a selection of entries covering a bicycle trip from southern France to Paris.

Andrzej Bobkowski

Swimming Is Like Zen

Art + Stories

Opinions

Swimming Is Like Zen

Swimming enthusiast Piotr Kieżun talks about the origin of swimming, changes in swimwear across the ages, and various swimmer writers and intellectuals.

Agnieszka Drotkiewicz

The Transformation

World + People

Dreams and Visions

The Transformation

Our writer imagines an episode from the life of the alchemist Michał Sędziwój, who, after attempting the transmutation of gold, starts to see the world differently...

Tomasz Wiśniewski

Aloha, Kaʻiulani!

Art + Stories

Experiences

Aloha, Kaʻiulani!

Princess Kaʻiulani was born in 1875 on Hawaii. Over just 23 years, the young royal saw and struggled against the American annexation of her Pacific island home.

Aleksandra Kozłowska

The Dormant Beast

World + People

Science

The Dormant Beast

Beneath the Phlegraean Fields near Naples there’s a giant lake of liquid magma bubbling away. The entire area includes 24 craters and volcanic cones. An eruption could occur within the next few years.

Maciej Hen