The study focuses on the Prague exile of the last crowned French king Charles X in 1832–1836. It notices the popularization reflection of the king’s stay, which originated in the Czech milieu from the end of the 19th century. It arises from the memoirs of Charles’s contemporaries (including members of his exile court and Josef Rudolph of Wartburg, son of the inspector of Prague Castle, etc.), from reports of the Prague Police Directorate, a collection of reports submitted to Chancellor Metternich, from materials on the accommodation and furnishings options of Prague Castle and from the related results of art-historical research of the New Palace of the castle, where the king stayed with his family and a small court. It deals with the king’s interaction with the milieu of the Czech lands. Last but not least, it then deals with the upbringing of Charles’s grandson Henry, in which František Palacký and Joachime Barrande, among others, participated.
The study aims to present the main theoretical foundation of a new type of Cold War historiography, so-called New Cold War History, the origin of which was significantly contributed to by the work of the Norwegian historian Odd A. Westad. The subject of interest is the analysis of the starting points of this type of research and its comparison with the traditional methods of the history of the Cold War. There is also an outline of its basic development trends and inspirations in the field of cultural and transnational history. In the conclusion, the most important objects of research are described, for which the use of theoretical knowledge of New Cold War History seems appropriate, and there is a basic typology of the primary feature of this new way of researching the Cold War, i.e., the contact of actors through the Iron Curtain.
The article deals with major conflicts over competing interpretations of contemporary history which took place in Poland after 1989. It frames this subject in a chain of historical debates concerning among others the Second World War, attitudes of Polish society vis-à-vis extermination of Jewish population during the Holocaust and post-War resistance against the Communist regime. It describes attempts of the Polish political right to impose a nationalistic narrative in the sphere of public history and examines political meaning of several state-run projects (Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Museum of Polish Jews’ History in Warsaw, European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk, Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II in Markowa).