The paper deals with the analysis legends about Puta Svihovsky from Ryzmberk, very popular story in western Bohemia and shows an image of this personality in the Czech historical consciousness. The leading nobleman of Jagiellonian period (died 1504) is still a well-known rep...

In my work I present possibilities of oral history usage in history lessons in the Czech Republic. I focus on primary schools and present tasks and realization of concrete projects. Main task is communication among the children and narrators, and cooperation among the f...

This contribution describes possibilities and way of inclusion of oral history to the history lessons in elementary schools. The paper is in fact the methodology user book. There are proposals of thematic areas in which are possible to use oral history. Further there is...

Koloman Gajan (b. 1918): Czech historian and professor at Charles University in Prague, the party of anti-fascist resistance in the eastern Slovak Republic, imprisoned in several Nazi concentration camps, 1961-1966 Senior lecture of Charles University, since 1966 Professor of Charles ...

This contribution attempts to communicate some experience of the authoress's own research. She uses the oral history method in research Czech Marxist historiography. The authoress focuses on the interesting historians biographies, collects and extracts a history memories. Then she comp...

Oral history interviewing is one more tool in the larger repertoire of methodologies used for research in history, anthropology, and folklore. Oral history collects information about the past from observers and participants in that past. It gathers data not available in written&#...

The aim of the thesis is to give testimony about traveling abroad before 1989 according to my parents experiences. For our generation without totality experience is the impossibility of free traveling unimaginable. Today we choose a place, save up for a holiday and we should&#...