COURSES IN POLISH HISTORY FOR THE BRITISH DELEGATES AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE IN 1919 Cover Image

KURSY HISTORII POLSKI DLA BRYTYJSKICH DELEGATÓW NA KONFERENCJĘ POKOJOWĄ W PARYŻU W 1919 ROKU
COURSES IN POLISH HISTORY FOR THE BRITISH DELEGATES AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE IN 1919

Author(s): Paweł Hanczewski
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Political history, Evaluation research, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: History of Poland; Great Britain; the Paris Peace Conference;

Summary/Abstract: In the spring of 1917 the Admiralty established a historical section whose main duty was to provide the British delegates to the Peace Conference with geographical, economic, historical, social, religious and political information regarding different parts of the world. The section prepared 174 handbooks which, due to a great interest from the British public, were issued for general and public use in 1920. One of the subjects discussed in the handbooks was the history of Poland from 1569 to the outbreak of the First World War. This subject was of great significance as the authors of the handbooks adopted historical reasoning, i.e. they believed that the origins of present-day problems and their solutions could be found through studying history.

  • Issue Year: 146/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 149-170
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish