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Honouring the memory of the Sybiracy – Polish deportees to Siberia |
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02/2/2025 |
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Polish Books translated into English – Gift ideas |
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12/15/2024 |
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Your future is revealed on St Andrew’s Eve – Andrzejki |
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11/29/2024 |
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Maczek’s 1st Polish Armoured Division – without defeat, to liberation |
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10/27/2024 |
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What links our “dożynki”- harvest festivals with harvest time in Poland? |
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09/29/2024 |
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Why young people fought in the Warsaw Uprising |
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08/24/2024 |
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Sue Ryder inspired by bravery of the Polish S.O.E in World War II |
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07/21/2024 |
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In Polish summer, nature rules |
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06/30/2024 |
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The birth of ‘Czerwone Maki’, the ‘Red Poppies of Monte Cassino’ song |
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05/17/2024 |
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From the Katyń massacre to Monte Cassino – one boy’s tragic loss |
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04/30/2024 |
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“The Sweet Polish Kitchen” and Ren’s Easter delights |
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03/27/2024 |
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Spring Clean like a Pole |
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02/28/2024 |
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The January Uprising which spurred on Polish Independence |
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01/31/2024 |
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Who brings your Polish Christmas presents? |
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12/23/2023 |
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Polish funerals – beliefs and traditions |
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10/27/2023 |
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Polish Book “The Peasants” has a worldwide renaissance |
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09/30/2023 |
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Wilno Polish City of Dreams |
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08/31/2023 |
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General Sikorski : one soldier remembers |
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07/4/2023 |
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Empire Windrush: just another journey for Polish refugees |
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06/28/2023 |
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Poland’s lost palaces and stately homes |
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05/30/2023 |
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Coronations in Poland and plundered crowns |
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05/5/2023 |
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Easter the Polish Way |
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04/2/2023 |
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Young Poland artists shaping the future through nature and rural life |
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03/30/2023 |
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Objects tell the truth of deportations of Poles to Russia |
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02/10/2023 |
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Lions of their time – the forgotten first Polish women in power |
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01/26/2023 |
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5 reasons decluttering is so hard in a Polish home |
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01/5/2023 |
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Where do your Wigilia (Christmas Eve) dishes come from? |
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12/23/2022 |
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Kraków Szopki – the perfect Polish Christmas centrepiece |
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11/29/2022 |
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The Pole behind your smartphone |
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10/21/2022 |
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How much do you know about the Polish National Anthem? |
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09/30/2022 |
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Polish Resettlement Camps on British soil link us all |
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08/31/2022 |
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Polish protest and flower power |
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07/30/2022 |
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150 years of Moniuszko, the Father of Polish Opera |
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06/30/2022 |
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Take part in our Polish Heritage campaign |
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05/6/2022 |
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Polish travels in western Ukraine |
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03/31/2022 |
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How did Poles deported to Russia in World War 2 escape, to fight on? |
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02/10/2022 |
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Young Poland art exhibition attracts new audiences |
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12/30/2021 |
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What’s the essence of Wigilia (Christmas Eve)? |
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12/21/2021 |
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Are you an Invisible Pole? |
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11/30/2021 |
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A Polish/Scottish tale of Bonnie Prince Charlie and three Clementines |
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10/29/2021 |
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Finally a museum about our Polish families in Soviet captivity |
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09/17/2021 |
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The humble sosna pine tree of Poland |
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08/31/2021 |
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Warsaw Uprising: Why I stand to attention at 17.00 on 1 August |
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07/31/2021 |
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Reader, I got the passport! |
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06/30/2021 |
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Artist Jan Matejko – putting Poland on the map |
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05/28/2021 |
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Was Prince Phillip’s great grandmother Polish? |
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04/20/2021 |
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Polish Palms for life and health |
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03/27/2021 |
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Polish citizenship is so much more than a passport |
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02/27/2021 |
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For post-war Polish refugees, learning English was about so much more than words |
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01/29/2021 |
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5 ways to make your Christmas truly Polish |
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12/19/2020 |
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Polish citizenship – the ultimate guide |
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12/13/2020 |
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Are you making traditional Polish Christmas decorations? |
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12/5/2020 |
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11 November – origins of Poland’s National Independence Day |
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11/10/2020 |
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An All Souls’ walk through Polish cemeteries |
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11/2/2020 |
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Did your great or grandparents fight in the forgotten Polish-Soviet war of 1920? |
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08/29/2020 |
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Raise a toast for Ognisko Polskie, 80 years! |
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07/18/2020 |
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Memories of Penrhos stanica – the end of the Polish scout house |
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06/26/2020 |
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A glimpse into the UK’s ‘old’ Polish community |
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06/12/2020 |
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Why did it take 60 long years for Poles to join the Victory Parade? |
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05/6/2020 |
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Polish Easter dishes from our grandparents to the future |
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04/10/2020 |
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Polish St Joseph’s Day and breaking of Lent |
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03/14/2020 |
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Survivor accounts:deportation of Poles to Russia |
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02/9/2020 |
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How did you first hear about the Holocaust ? On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz |
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01/27/2020 |
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Kuligi (sleigh rides) a sign of defiance? |
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12/30/2019 |
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Joyous treasures: Polish Christmas Carols |
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12/20/2019 |
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Chestnuts and Polish autumn songs |
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10/25/2019 |
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Is it obiad or lunch? |
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09/27/2019 |
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Wola, Warszawa, echoes of a population destroyed |
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08/23/2019 |
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Europe’s first republic – the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth |
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07/12/2019 |
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After the battle of Monte Cassino – what happened next for the Poles? |
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05/16/2019 |
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Why May is a special month for Poles |
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05/1/2019 |
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Poles’ own version of Valentines – Kaziuki |
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03/4/2019 |
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Polish Saint Nicholas – Święty Mikołaj- will the Polish tale bring him to you? |
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12/4/2018 |
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General Stanisław Maczek – finally honoured in the UK |
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11/7/2018 |
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The unbelievable tale of Wojtek the bear in Scotland |
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10/26/2018 |
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What do Poles and Indians have in common? |
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10/23/2018 |
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6 things you never knew about John Paul II |
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10/12/2018 |
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Finding your Polish family history – the magic of the internet |
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09/21/2018 |
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Museum of Emigracja, Gdynia, to go or not to go? |
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08/24/2018 |
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Obóz harcerski, heaven on earth! |
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08/6/2018 |
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Polish Legend Lech, Czech and Rus – fact or fiction? |
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07/20/2018 |
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Jagody, truskawki and Polish nature |
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06/29/2018 |
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From Russia with love – the samovar and how Poles took their tea |
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06/15/2018 |
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18 May: The day I ignored Prince Harry |
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05/18/2018 |
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Girl Power: the Florence Nightingales of Poland |
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05/11/2018 |
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What are your favourite Polish things? |
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05/3/2018 |
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2 May: What is your identity? Where is your home? |
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05/2/2018 |
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Smolensk air crash – where were you? |
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04/10/2018 |
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Święcone – What to put in your Polish Easter basket |
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03/29/2018 |
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How Polish Post just isn’t like Lent |
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03/9/2018 |
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The WWII Polish deportations – still an untold story |
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02/10/2018 |
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Will you be eating Pączki or Faworki for Polish Fat Thursday? |
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02/3/2018 |
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Is the obrus/tablecloth doomed? |
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01/27/2018 |
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Hej Kolęda, Kolęda! |
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12/27/2017 |
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Messages for your Christmas cards in Polish/English |
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12/14/2017 |
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Last minute Polish Christmas gift guide |
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12/9/2017 |
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Farewell to three outstanding ladies |
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11/25/2017 |
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11 November – Pride in Poland’s rise from the ashes |
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11/10/2017 |
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Five reasons Polish Zaduszki win over Halloween |
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10/28/2017 |
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Hygge – with a Polish twist |
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10/21/2017 |
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Ten images of growing up Polish |
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10/11/2017 |
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3 Polish Poets for Poetry Day – classic and modern |
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09/28/2017 |
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Legendary Pole, Hubal the first Partisan of WWII |
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09/23/2017 |
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Fall in love with Polish cookery with “Wild Honey and Rye” |
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09/15/2017 |
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Unpronounceable Polish word of the week – can you? |
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09/9/2017 |
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On this day: 1 September 1939 |
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08/31/2017 |
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Five things I love about Poland |
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08/25/2017 |
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Why is 15th August a national holiday? |
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08/15/2017 |
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Which beach can you cycle to, roller skate and have a boogie on? |
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08/11/2017 |
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Not an iPad in sight! How Polish kids’ camps, kolonie, entertain |
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07/28/2017 |
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Our Polish Heritage – the Winged Hussars |
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07/21/2017 |
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For Polish Navy Day – a bit of Morse Code …./.-/…./.- |
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06/28/2017 |
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Five reasons to celebrate Midsummer’s Night |
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06/21/2017 |
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Kraków: streets to beat the stress |
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06/13/2017 |
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Plumbing problems abroad resolved – or are they? |
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05/25/2017 |
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They really DID believe… Monte Cassino, 18 May |
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05/18/2017 |
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Polish Heritage Day helps people find their roots |
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05/10/2017 |
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word of the week – Pejzaż |
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3 May Launch Trip around the best haunts of London |
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05/3/2017 |
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What is ‘the 3rd of May’ – Polish Constitution Day all about? |
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Where are you heading this summer? |
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Struggling with your child’s Polish? |
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Finally, a book about us! |
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Plumbing problems abroad – not for the faint-hearted |
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word of the week – namolny |
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