The Polish Institute

I visited „Sikorski Museum and Insitute” for the first time on 6th March 2014. I was truly overwhelmed by the size of its archives and fantastic assistance of Jadwiga Kowalska – Deputy Keeper of the Archives. I spent the entire day working through the private collection of Krystyn Lach Szyrma who was a professor of … Continued

University of East London

I visited University of East London Archives with Jane and Julia on 18th Feb 2014. We were very kindly guided in our research by a very nice archivist called Paul. I had a rare chance to listen to a series of interviews with residents of East London. They shared their views on ever changing East … Continued

Interesting documents from Sikorski Institute Archives

I have spent a lot of time examining various documents illustrating social development of Polish migrant community in Britain in the last century. Amongst hundreds of documents, I found a few that truly interested me. First of all, there are a vast number of  documents related to the Polish students receiving their education from various … Continued