A special polling station has been set up in Cassino, Italy so Polish veterans attending commemorations of the anniversary of the 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino - in which Polish forces played an important role - can vote in today's presidential election msn.com/pl-pl/wiadomos…

Polish Self-Taught phrasebook from 1925, including phrases on the use of marks as currency (despite the currency change to the złoty in 1924), phrases on travelling by steamer to Danzig, and a ‘useful and necessary expression’; “I do not speak Russian”

📢 BBC World Service to launch new offer in Polish BBC News Polska will deliver independent and impartial news in text and video for Polish-speaking audiences. More here ⤵️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

The new generation of Polish poets is aiming to shed the "burden" of Poland's Romantic tradition and to "capture the change that society is undergoing", they tell James Jackson at Poland's oldest literary festival notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/22/mor…

"The remarkable rise of Poland" is this week's cover story in The Economist. "Poland has transformed itself into Europe’s most overlooked power - with a bigger army than Britain, France or Germany and living standards, adjusted for purchasing power, about to eclipse Japan’s"

Lovely vintage map of Poland from 1935. Would look cool in a pub or on a tea towel. Zoomable high-res version here: buff.ly/urebTlp

German and Soviet pavilions in antithesis - Paris International Exposition, 1937

‘Know your country’: interwar game from Poland, in which players move across the newly independent state to gain an ‘overview of the riches of our homeland’ (and hence billed as a ‘doubly enjoyable entertainment’)

Thrilled that my article on Eliot’s Polish plains has been published in The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/ts…

You should read this!! Juliette Bretan is wonderful 🤩🔥🥰

Juliette Bretan Aaaah. Sounds fascinating!

Polish is the second most spoken language in the United Kingdom and has been for some years, and yet for some reason the huge surge of interest in Polish literature in Britain has yet to arrive? What’s wrong with this country 🇵🇱📚

Special Forum essays: - Juliette Bretan on east-central European history and identity in TWL - Anna Budziak on Eliot’s criticism of populism - Christina Lambert on practices of food production and consumption - Zoë Miller on consent in TWL - Ben Papsun on Cornel West and TSE

The Windrush Poles - survivors of deportation to Siberia culture.pl/en/article/the…

Poland has criticised Italian newspaper Quotidiano Libero for falsely reporting that "Warsaw has long claimed parts of western Ukraine”. It notes that such claims are part of “Russian disinformation” designed to create divisions between Poland and Ukraine notesfrompoland.com/2025/06/23/pol…

I’m thrilled to be in Marburg in Germany this month, as a fellow Herder-Institut für hist. Ostmitteleuropaforschung

A 19th-century manor house in Belarus where Polish Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz once lived has been sold at auction for the equivalent of €278 (1,180 zloty). Sienkiewicz wrote Pan Wołodyjowski, part of his celebrated Triology, while living there notesfrompoland.com/2025/07/19/his…

T.S. Eliot stayed in Marburg in 1914 for a philosophy summer school. This was the view out his window, and for this month it’s mine, too (from further up the hill he complained about in his letters).

If you happen to listen to BBC Radio 4 Today tomorrow morning, you just might hear a familiar voice... I will be talking about my research at 8:45, so tune in!

Today’s cocktail - stratified spirits in a pousse-café. This cocktail originated in the 19th century and is made by layering liquids by density…fun but potent