Forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians

Welcome to the homepage of the

Forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians

The Forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians was created in 2000 as a way of facilitating and stimulating discussion and contact between historians in the Czech and Slovak Republics and the United Kingdom.

The purpose of the Forum is to organize joint ventures which encourage interaction between Czech, Slovak and British academics – historians, literature specialists and others – who seek to explore and analyse themes connected to East-Central Europe. We are especially interested in historical themes which are controversial and lend themselves to an interdisciplinary approach. We also try to examine such themes comparatively, for example by incorporating perspectives from different parts of East-Central Europe.

The first chair (2000-2009) of the Forum was Professor Robert Evans (Oxford). The current chair of the British side is Professor Mark Cornwall (Southampton).

For further information about the academic work of the Forum or to join the mailing list, please contact either Professor Mark Cornwall  (J.M.Cornwall@soton.ac.uk) or Dr Rajendra Chitnis ((R.A.Chitnis@bristol.ac.uk)

Forthcoming events

16 May 2012

Professor Mark Cornwall (Southampton) will be giving the first annual Bruce Lockhart Lecture at the British Embassy in Prague on May 16th 2012. His lecture is entitled 'Curious and Critical: The British in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s'.

22 May 2012

The speaker for the Annual Masaryk Lecture will be Dr Jaroslav Miller (University of Olomouc), and his lecture is entitled: 'THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA COMES TO THE CZECH TOWN: THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN CITY IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD'