In Czech historical production and in the presentation of the rural environment in memory institutions, the peasant is an almost invisible person for the period of the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, when the farmstead or peasant farm became a kind of showroom…

Part of the collections of the Department of Old Czech History (The Historical Museum of the National Museum) is formed by objects preserved for future generations by Libuše Bráfová, daughter of the politician František Ladislav Rieger and the granddaughter of the historian František Palacký. Libuše…

The paper deals with the personal funds of women working in the scientific institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and its predecessors, which are kept by the Masaryk Institute and the Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It presents the most important estates of women scientists from…

The Archive of the Czech National Bank is often perceived by the research community as an institution managing sources on the economic history of the Czech lands and Central Europe, especially since the second half of the 19th century. Although the archival material deposited there belongs for the…

Museum of literature and music in Banská Bystrica documents important writers and composers, artistic ensembles and works of literary and musical culture of the region. Among the literary collections, an important place is occupied by the typologically diverse collections of female writers: Elena…