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Week 1: Pre-Christian Culture and Great Moravia

• Live: Introduction to Great Moravia - Pagan Culture, Religion & History (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: Who were the Slavs and when did they arrive? (45 mins)

 

Week 2: Christian Culture and traditions in Great Moravia 

• Live: Christianisation of Slovakia - Constantine & Method (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: Folk Customs and Beliefs (45 mins)

 

Week 3: Slovakia in the Middle Ages (Kingdom of Hungary part I.)

• Live: Overview of Slovakia in the Middle Ages (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: Why does Slovakia have so many castles? (45 mins)

 

Week 4: Life in the Middle Ages 

• Live: Living like a medieval aristocrat in Slovakia - what was it like? (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: Life of the folk - was it really that bad? (45 mins)

 

Week 5: Slovakia in the Renaissance (Kingdom of Hungary part II.)

• Live: Renaissance in Slovakia - fashion, art and 150 years of war against the Ottomans (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: The religious wars, The Anti-Habsburg uprisings (45 mins)

 

Week 6: Folk Life in Slovakia 

• Live: Exploration of Slovak Folk Life from the Renaissance to the 19th century (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: Folk Rites of Passages  (45 mins)

 

Week 7: Slovak National Awakening (1780-1848)

• Live: Causes and the unravelling  (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: Ľudovít Štúr, tensions with Hungarians (45 mins)

 

Week 8: After the revolution…

• Live: Building the Foundations of Slovak Nationhood  (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: Austro-Hungarian Compromise and Magyarization (45 mins)

 

Week 9: Slovakia at the beginning of the 20th century 

• Live: Industrialization and the changing world (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: Emigration and the role of American Slovaks (45 mins)

 

Week 10: The first World War and Founding of Czechoslovakia

• Live: First World War and the crumbling of Austria-Hungary (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: The Role of Milan Rastislav Štefánik and Founding of Czechoslovakia (45 mins)

 

Week 11: The Second World War 

• Live: The fall of Czechoslovakia and the Munich Agreement (45 mins)

• Pre-recorded: The Slovak state and the Holocaust (45 mins)

 

Week 12: Communist Czechoslovakia

• Live: The rise of communism in Czechoslovakia & the fall of the Iron Curtain Q & A (90 mins)