The author presents the alterations the title periodical has faced in recent years. In an effort to meet the transformations Polish scientific journals have been undergoing, in 2016 the “Rocznik Przemyski” was turned into a publishing series with individual periodicals. An international board of editors was appointed, as well as a Scientific Council and a group of reviewers. “Rocznik Przemyski. Historia” has been listed in several international data bases and its electronic version is available at the Portal Czasopism Naukowych (Scientific Journals Online). Recent years have also seen three special issues of the journal. The author discusses the content of the current issue and explains why it is unusual.

The goal of this paper is to present some new sources as part of a greater project, the collecting of Baron Péter Koháry’s correspondence and other sources of his life, diplomatic as well as military administrative role, and activity. Koháry (1564–1632) was the vice-captain of Érsekújvár and vice-general of the border-fortress zone of the Cisdanubian district and mining region (1611–1632). The selection of the methods and tools to elaborate the sources and the first quantitative analysis concerning the 1620s has already been completed. Currently, the author is working on the vice-captain’s biography and sources concerning the peace process of Szőny (1627) and negotiations in Szécsény and Buda (1628–1629). More precisely, the article aims at summarising the new partial results of the research into sources concerning him. These new results can help complete and correct the data of Koháry’s biography. Furthermore, the analysis of these new sources allows for a better understanding of his life, relationships, acts, and financial status. In historical literature, a wide range of studies can be found concerning the life of Koháry’s son (István I) and grandson (István II), but research has not focused sufficiently on Péter, who established the reputation and status of the Koháry Family.

The private secondary school (Realgymnasium) in Skalat operated from 1911 to 1914, and had good financial backing and support from the local community. It filled an educational gap in a district that was poorly connected to other cities. In the gymnasium Jewish students dominated quantitatively over Roman Catholics and a small group of Greek Catholics. The collection of teaching resources was systematically increased and a number of educational activities were undertaken, a school orchestra was formed, a program of excursions was developed, and a scout troop was supported. The school’s existence was brought to an end by World War I and the difficult post-war situation. It exemplified the emancipation aspirations of students coming from a provincial town, especially of Jewish origin.

This article discusses the historical development of tourism on the Croatian island of Lošinj, which underwent a transformation from a hub for goods to a popular destination for health tourism during the winter. The paper explores the factors that contributed to the development of tourism on Lošinj and places its history in a broader context, shedding light on new medical aspirations, the Austrian authorities’ will to vitalize the Austrian Littoral, and the emergence of a new era of tourism to the sea. With over 8000 visitors arriving at the island in the Kvarner during the peak years of 1912/13, Lošinj was the first island of the Austrian Riviera where tourism had been able to develop.

The article is an attempt to reconstruct and evaluate an armed clash which took place in Central Galicia in the Autumn of 1914. The Austro-Hungarian XIV Corps lead by General Josef Roth was able to cross the River San and gained a bridgehead at Rzuchów in the face of heavy Russian resistance, but was forced to retreat after two days. Inadequate artillery support on the Austro-Hungarian side, unfavourable weather conditions and, above all, a poor choice of landing area, all lead to a defeat and the loss of over a thousand men. Russian losses amounted to a similar figure.

On 18-19 September 1932 in Przemyśl, on the initiative of Kazimierz Osiński, head of the National Museum of the Przemyśl Region, the Association of Museums in Poland organized the 8th Convention of the Delegates of the Association of Museums in Poland. 40 participants from all over Poland took part in the convention: representatives of museums, conservators and ministry officials. During the meeting, current museological issues were discussed, e.g. problems and concepts of a regional museum (Rules and Regulations of the Regional Museum Section were adopted) and protection of sacred monuments. The major point on the agenda, however, was passing a bill of the law on protection of public museums and an executive directive to that law. Papers were delivered by delegates Józef Kupka, Jan Lauterbach, Rev. Stefan Momidłowski and Kazimierz Osiński. The Convention was complete with a concert of the orchestra of the Przemyśl Musical Society and a tour of the town’s museums and monuments (the National Museum of the Przemyśl Region, the Diocesan Museum and the Krasiczyn Castle). The event considerably enhanced the reputation of Przemyśl in the Polish museum world.

Parish chronicles are extremely significant and interesting source materials for examining the history of local communities in former Galicia. The author presents the requirements parish chronicles had to meet in the Galicia period as well as discussing their usual content, referring to examples from various chronicles.

In the State Archives in Przemyśl there are chronicles from parishes of the Latin rite and from Greek-Catholic parishes. They are documents from the parishes in Tartaków and Wojniłów which belonged to the Lviv Archdiocese, located in fonds no. 2441 “Parish files and register books of the Lviv Archdiocese and Przemyśl diocese of the Roman-Catholic rite”. The chronicles of Greek-Catholic parishes in the fonds of the Przemyśl Archives are represented by: a chronicle of the parish in Dębno (the Leżajsk district), Grab, and a chronicle from the parish in Smolnik near Lutowiska. This paper presents general information on the chronicles, their appearance, the chronicler, the content and the manner of writing. The analysis of the preserved parish chronicles in the fonds of the State Archives in Przemyśl allow to decide that the manner of keeping them depended largely on the involvement and ingenuity of their authors.

The paper is a synthetic presentation of the contents of parish websites and Facebook profiles in terms of historical information posted online. For the purposes of the analysis, a representative group of one-third parishes of the Archdiocese of Przemyśl has been selected (125 out of 392). The research lasted from April to early June 2022. The analysis showed that 64% of the parishes had their own websites, another 8% (without a website) had a Facebook profile, and 28% of the examined parishes remained offline. Within the group of parishes with their own websites, 84% included historical information in the form of texts of considerably varied size and quality, prepared for the purposes of the website. Some of the texts had a quality of reliable scientific monographs. In rare cases calendars of events from the parish life or parish chronicles were found. Parish Facebook profiles were hardly ever used for publishing historical content.

The article deals with the image of post-war administration in the eyes of the authors of the parish chronicles from Oleszyce and Przeworsk. The influence of administration on life of both authors was examined, and a comparison was made of administration in both chronicles at the same time. Its assessment in the period up to 1947 is completely different for both circuit breakers. Rev. Penc from Przeworsk was struck as a foreign element imposed on the authorities. Rev. Mroczkowski from Oleszyce, who operates in an area where the main threat of the OUN/UPA exists, has a completely different opinion about the supreme authorities. A counterweight to the Ukrainian underground are Home Army soldiers, who are expected to join the ranks of citizen militias, as well as district and municipal administrations. He is also the author of the Oleszyce family chronicle, which is responsible for its development because it includes members of the Polish anti-communist conspiracy. In comparison to the situation in Przeworsk, this power is not exerted oppressively towards the parish priest. What’s more, Rev. Mroczkowski co-created it himself, sitting on the Presidium of the District National Council in Lubaczów. The situation changed dramatically in 1947, when the administration in Oleszyce, as in the entire Lubaczów district, was taken over by communists. Since then, the threats of both chroniclers, as well as their basic power, being active.

In the years 1874–1877 Mieczysław Błażowski took up the job of organizing the Przemyśl municipal files. The result of his work was the development of the Catalogue of the State Archives of the Royal City of Przemyśl. It has the form of a book and is currently kept at the National Archive in Przemyśl in the fonds “Files of the city of Przemyśl”, sign. 2388. Apart from the catalogue of archival material Błażowski developed a list of printed works titled „The list of printed works found in the archives”. The list was later complemented by Błażowski’s successors at the position of the city archivist – Kazimierz Górski and Tadeusz Troskolański. “The list of printed works…” has 95 items and contains printed works which the fonds obtained by way of donations or purchases. Taking the position of the city archivist in 1911, Tadeusz Troskolański began developing a professional archive library, e.g. through purchasing publications on paleography and diplomacy

In 1929 Karol Lanckoroński (1848–1933) donated his collection of scientific photographs to the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the photographs of works of art and archeological relics in that collection we can also find prints of ethnographic nature, including photographs by Alfred Silkiewicz, a photographer with connections in Ternopil. On 6 July 1887 the heir to the throne Archduke Rudolph visited Ternopil and saw an ethnographic exhibition designed specially for his visit in the municipal garden. The central figures of the exhibition were residents of minor towns of Eastern Galicia brought to Ternopil, dressed in regional costumes. The text focuses on the circumstances of taking those photographs and on their significance as a source for researching the history of Galicia and its residents.

Local history, including histories of parishes as centres of religious but also social and cultural life, have long been the focus of interest of both historians, history lovers and local patriots. This is also the case of the parish in Rybna, which has recently become the theme of a monograph – of popular-science nature, though based on extensive archive research. Even though it does not exhaust the theme of the history of that village and parish near Cracow, it is a perfect point of reference for this paper. The 19th century was very significant for the history of the Rybna parish: among others, a new church was built there in the first quarter of that century. That is why the sources from that period are pretty significant, if not fundamental in many aspects. The documents developed at that time are now kept in several institutions, of which the most important are the Archive of the Metropolitan Curia in Cracow and the National Archive in Cracow. This paper discusses the materials kept there.

An 1870 memorandum |by Rev. Václav Štulc to the Prime Minister Alfred Józef Potocki Reverend Václav Štulc, a Czech independence activist, a Polonophile, was pretty familiar with aristocratic elites in Galicia. He maintained particularly close contacts with princes Lubomirski from Przeworsk. After the Austrian Empire had turned into the dualistic Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, he joined the circle of those Czechs who wanted Vienna to acknowledge their aspirations to independence or grant them the status of the third power in the country next to Austria and Hungary. Štulc wrote a sort of a memorandum to Alfred Józef Potocki, the then Prime Minister in the Austrian government, requesting his support for the Czech efforts. In that letter he justified the legitimacy of establishing Austria-Hungary-Bohemia and he warned against Czech separatism which could turn towards Germany or Russia, which could bring about a serious military conflict.

The mariavitana, i.e. archive materials and book collections on the Mariavite Church are the focus of interest not only of the researchers of that denomination but also other Christian currents. They are a valuable source of information on the doctrine, history and context of functioning of minority churches in the mosaic of denominations in Poland. Although there are no Mariavite centers in Galicia, we can find mariavitana both in Galician archives and publishing houses. On the other hand, Galician printed works are an integral part of the remains of Mariavite libraries. This paper is a contribution to the research on the links between the Mariavite activity in the then Congress Kingdom of Poland and its reception in Galicia. Another suggestion for further research is the reception by the Mariavites of theological literature published in Galicia.

The paper presents an eminent Polish librarian and historian Fryderyk Papée (1856–1940). He was a long-time staff member and later deputy head of the University Library in Lviv. In the years 1905–1926 he was the head of the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków. The paper discusses Papée’s services as a reformer of those two libraries as well as the Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Czartoryski Library in Kraków. The author also presents Papée’s contribution to erecting new buildings of the University Library in Lviv and the Jagiellonian Library.

The villages of Dobrzechów, Wysoka Strzyżowska and Oparówka were the property of the Cistercian monastery in Koprzywnica since the Middle Ages. After the First Partition, these areas were taken over by the Austrian authorities as chamber estates. In 1789, as a result of the exchange, the villages became the property of Ignacy Skrzyński, and then of his son Franciszek Ksawery Skrzyński. In 1842, the daughter of the latter - Teofila Koźmianowa née Skrzyński - was installed as the owner of the village. As a result of her premature death in 1852, an economic inventory was prepared in favor of court inheritance proceedings, covering all farms and manor buildings, with a detailed description of the buildings located within them. The source is the only such detailed description of the villages in question preserved, and a significant part of the objects listed in it were destroyed in the 19th or early 20th century.

The article is a critical edition of the memoirs of Karol Monné, a figure of great merit for Przemyśl, city councilor, railway inspector, a participant of the January Uprising, member of many associations and institutions, finally father of Wanda Monné – poet, translator and sculptor, fiancée of artist Artur Grottger. This document, never published before, is a valuable source of information about Karol Monné’s youth, the circumstances in which he got his education, his social and professional activities before he settled permanently in Przemyśl, and above all, his failed marriage to Wanda’s mother – Kordula Wentz. The author pays particular attention to Joanna Przybysławska, with whom Karol became involved after parting with Kordula, as well as to his children from that relationship. The published source can be treated as an important contribution to the biography of Karol Monné, which has not yet been developed.

In the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow there are rich collections of correspondence of famous people, including those connected with Przemyśl. In this paper the authors analyze 12 letters of Bishop Józef Sebastian Pelczar to Stanisław Tomkowicz of the years 1886–1916. They concern various matters: from religious art to the maintenance works in the Przemyśl Cathedral to political matters. They are a valuable testimony to the extensive interests of the Przemyśl Bishop.