The Friends of Czech Heritage

Name: Maria Theresa in Bohemia, a Talk by Richard Bassett
Start: 2025-10-07T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-07T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Embassy of the Czech Republic

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Events from this organizer

January 2025
January 28 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

COURIER: MY LIFE AS A SPY IN COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Embassy of the Czech Republic 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, United Kingdom

This talk explores the subject of secret police surveillance in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. Prof. Cornwall draws on his own surveillance file, asking why, when […]

£15
April 2025
April 8 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

LECTURE BY SIR JOHN TUSA: A Life in Bat’a Modernism: Straight Lines, Flat Roofs & Planned Communities

Embassy of the Czech Republic 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Sir John Tusa was born in Zlín. Two days before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939, John’s father flew out of Czechoslovakia on […]

£15
October 2025
October 7 | 8:30 pm

Maria Theresa in Bohemia, a Talk by Richard Bassett

Embassy of the Czech Republic 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find […]

£15