Spreading of school chronicles in the second half of the 19th century allows collection of information from larger geographic areas.Despite being significantly different in terms of length and nature of records, individual chronicles represent a valuable source of information for researchers. Authors of the chronicles were teachers, through whom we find out more about the lives of school children, troubles of teachers in the 19th century or about disputes accompanying attempts to build own schools in municipalities, but also about municipalities themselves, national and international events and natural disasters.The paper focused on festivities in a social group of the municipality from the perspective of school chronicles as a unique and not quite yet explored source. Thanks to these records, it is possible to rebuild the course of official visits of high state and church representatives, sanctification of buildings or celebrations of Christmas trees, but mainly the position of the school and its involvement in social life. Thanks to the chronological recording, the development of the festive life in the municipality can be observed, and despite the fact that it is primarily a source from the school environment, information recorded in it is of indisputable importance for the creation of a complex view of the culture and life in a municipality in the 19th century.
Although much has been written about Czech coronations, one of them has gone almost unnoticed. This article focuses on the coronation of Francis II as King of Bohemia, which took place in 1792, a year after the lavish coronation of his father Leopold II. This article examines it in the context of the other coronations of Francis in the same year and documents the entire process of its preparation, from the ceremonial entry into Prague to practical aspects such as security arrangements, accommodation and lighting. Since the entire course of the coronation ceremony itself is already well documented and remained unchanged in Francis’s case, attention is given to a particular part of the coronation mass, namely the accolation of the Knights of St Wenceslas. The paper also deals with the concept of “the people” and the Bubeneč folk celebration, as the latter was an important part of the coronation festivities.
This study analyzes celebrations of presidents’ birthdays in interwar
Czechoslovakia. The authors discuss the formative role of the holidays within the framework of the construction of Czechoslovak national identity. They focus on new forms of the celebrations and discuss how the earlier pattern of Emperor Francis Joseph Festivities were employed in republican festivities. The authors deal with political negotiations of festival regulations and codes as well as their implementation in practice. They analyze which narratives were employed for the image of the president and the presidency in general. They also illuminate how first Czechoslovak president Tomáš G. Masaryk’s birthday was commemorated after his abdication and particularly after his death, and how the festivity was changed after Edvard Beneš became president. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou