Číslo 1, roč. 112 (2025)

The study focuses on the development of the discourse on housing estates in Pardubice during the socialist era. The primary materials are textual and visual messages in the local press, selected literary works, and especially contemporary tourist guides. The author examines how the ruling circles shaped the image of Pardubice as an urban landscape, in which the housing estates embodied the the ruling regime’s care for the needs of the inhabitants. A key element was the construction of the Dukla housing estate on the site of the former Karanténa, whose reconstruction served as a tool of propaganda. The study also follows the propagandistic efforts in literary and cultural activities, exhibitions, excursions, and positive responses from foreign visitors. The conclusion of the research reveals the topos of housing estate construction as a means of a dialogue with the past, expressing the superiority of the socialist present.

The study deals with the collection of chapbooks of Ignác Tabarka from Rymice based on the collector’s correspondence and additional museum books that contain chapbooks from his collection. The attention is primarily dedicated to the quantity, formation, thematic profiling and organization of the collection, Ignác Tabarka’s contacts with other collectors and the fate of the collection until now. The author investigates the possibilities for learning about collections of chapbooks that have not been preserved together and how private collections of chapbooks influence the constitution of museum collections in the Czech Republic.

The text deals with the institutional history of the Centre of Folk Art Production (ÚLUV) in the first years of its existence, i.e., between 1945 and 1948. The first part is is devoted to the ideological and organisational preconditions for its establishment, especially the long-term efforts of Ministerial Council Theodor Pistorius to organise folk production. In the following part, attention is paid to the structure and activities of the Centre and the problems it faced in this complicated period. It turns out that, at that time, the Centre was primarily a business and commercial project. The study was based primarily on sources in the well-preserved company archives, in which this first period is well documented.

The paper is devoted to the issue of folklore celebrations and festivals in Slovakia, as a phenomenon of scenic folklorism. The author focuses on the beginnings of this phenomenon, with an emphasis on the role of Karel Plicka (1894–1987) – one of the pioneering creative personalities in this field. It is based on the study of archival materials, contemporary press and professional literature on this topic. It points to the contemporary historical-political contexts and functions of these “folklore holidays”.

This article describes the life, duties and benefits of an employee of an aristocratic estate in Czechoslovakia during the First Republic (1918-1938). This description is based on the professional norms issued by the owner of the estate in 1923 and their differences from older norms that were issued in 1897. In the first part, the Collalto Estates are described together with their system or organisation. This is followed by a discussion of the benefits of the employees of the estate, which includes wages, natural benefits and the security offered and consumed. The next part is devoted to describing the duties, working hours, and vacations of employees and the disciplinary sanctions they faced in the case where they violated the conditions of their expected duties and confidence. In the conclusion, there is a comparison between a Collalto employee’s salary and the average salary in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s.