(Cambridge Concise Histories) Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki - A Concise History of Poland-Cambridge University Press (2006)

24 Emperor Alexander I and the foundation of the university of Warsaw in 1816. Courtesy of the Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum), Warsaw. Photograph, Piotr Ligier

25 Portrait of Poland’s greatest Romantic and poet, Adam Mickiewicz (1798-185 5). Courtesy of the Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw. Photograph, H. Romanowski

26 The battle of Grochow, fought on 25 February 1831. Courtesy of the Muzeum Wojska Polskiego (Polish Army Museum), Warsaw

27 ‘Organic work’ in action: the Cegielski factory in Poznan (Posen). Courtesy of the Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum), Poznan. Photograph, B. Drzewiecka

28 The closure of the churches, painted by Artur Grottger in 1 861. Courtesy of the Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum), Wroclaw

29 Weaving hall of Karl Wilhelm Scheibler’s cotton mill in F.odz, the ‘Manchester of Poland’. Courtesy of Adam Zamoyski

50 Marie Curie-Sklodowska. Courtesy of the Maria Sklodowska-

Curie Society, Warsaw

31 A scene of peasant life in Polesie. Zawadzki family collection

52 Feast of the Trumpets - Jewish New Year. Courtesy of the

Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum), Warsaw

3 3 A hunting party in the Grodno guberniya, 1908. Protassewicz

family collection

34 Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907). Courtesy of the Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum), Warsaw. Photograph, Henryk Romanowski

35 The Teatr Miejski (Municipal Theatre) in Lwow (L’viv) in Galicia. Courtesy of the Instytut Sztuki, Polska Akademia (Institute of Arts of the Polish Academy of Sciences). Photograph, Roman Wesolowski

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36 Our Lady of Ostra Brama (Aušros Vartų Madona) in Wilno (Vilnius). Courtesy of Michal Giedroyč

37 The Polish National Committee in Paris, 1918. Courtesy of the Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej (Archive of Mechanical Documentation), Warsaw

38 Polish cavalry in Slutsk in Belarus, August T9T9. Courtesy of the Tomasz Kopanski Collection, Warsaw. Photograph, Anna Koch

39 A Polish armoured train, The General Sosnkowski, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, 1920. Courtesy of the Tomasz Kopanski Collection, Warsaw

40 The new Polish port of Gdynia in the 1930s. Courtesy of Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw

41 The 1926 coup. Courtesy of the Jo/.ef Pilsudskį Institute,

London

42 Jadwiga Smosarska (1900-71). Courtesy of the Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw

43 Peasants harvesting near Nowy Sącz in southern Poland, 1936. Courtesy of Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw

44 Poland’s state-of-the-art bomber, the PZI. P.37 Los (‘Llk’). Courtesy of the Tomasz Kopanski Collection, Warsaw

45 The Holocaust in art. Courtesy of the Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum), Warsaw. Photograph, Henryk Romanowski

46 Polish tanks in Normandy, early September 1944. Courtesy of the Polish Institute and General Sikorski Museum, London

47 The Warsaw Rising, 1944. Courtesy of the Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw

48 A queue for waiter in ruined Warsaw, spring 1945. Courtesy of the weekly Polityka, Warsaw

49 Socialist realism: bringing culture to the masses. Courtesy of the Muzeum Zamovskich (Zamoyski Museum), Kozlowka

50 General Wtadyslaw Anders visiting a resettlement camp in England, November 1953. Courtesy of the Polish Institute and General Sikorski Museum, London

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24 October 1956. Courtesy of the Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw

52 Cardinal Wyszyhski at the Jasna Gora monastery in Czystochowa during the celebration of the millennium of Christianity in Poland, 3 May 1966. Courtesy of the Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw

53 Comrade Edward Gierek, the ex-miner, meets the miners of Rydultowy in Upper Silesia, September 1974. Courtesy of the Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw. Photograph, Stanislaw Jakubowski

54 Karol Wojtyla, the archbishop of Krakow, inspects a guard of honour on his return to Poland as Pope John Paul II, 2 June T979. Courtesy of the Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw. Photograph, Damazy Kwiatkowski. With permission of the Polska Agencja Prasowa (Polish Press Agency), Warsaw.

5 5 Lech Walysa at the moment of signing the agreement which brought Solidarity into existence, in the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk on зт August T980. Courtesy of the Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej, Warsaw. Photograph, Trybck

56 The bogeys of communist Poland. Courtesy of Wydawnictwo Dolnošląskie, Wroclaw. Published in |. Kuron and J. Zakowski, PRL did poczqtkujqcych in the series ‘A to Polska Wlasnie’ (Wroclaw, 1998), p. 245

57 President Aleksander Kwasniewski ratifies Poland’s treaty of accession to NATO, 26 February 1999. Courtesy of the Polska Agencja Prasowa (Polish Press Agency), Warsaw. Photograph,

I .eszek Wroblewski

58 Poland returns to Europe. Courtesy of Andrzej Mleczko

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