The article is a review of the book Golden Book of Lviv Historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries edited by Jerzy Maternicki with assistance of Leonid Zaszkilniak.

The Author analyses tropes of historical narration in academic lectures on history underlining the need and usefulness of research on this topic.

The Author discusses Anna Idzikowska-Czubaj 's study Cultural and Historical Significance of Rockand Roll in Poland". Rock and roll had immense importance in the contemporary history of Poland. It constituted one of the few fields of relatively free expression of the youth under communist mass culture. On the other hand it is true that communists tried to use it to canalize a potential revolt of young people.

The author presents Norman Davies' conception of a "Nation" which is based on multicultural assumptions. This idea is next contrasted with the nationalistic notions, which still dominate in national historiographies.

The Author presents the core of the idea of microhistory as developed in the works of Giovanni Levi and the group of Italian historians connected with the periodical "Quaderni Storici".

In this article the Author Irys to show in what ways popular computer games influence the historical awareness in modem culture.

The Author analyses some methodological solutions adopted in her studies on historical presentation of women in the "Solidarity" underground movement.

The article is devoted to a well known book of Miłorad Pavić Khazar Dictionary. The discussed work is. unusual, as it merges literature with historical writing. As such, it presents an interesting alternative to traditionally understood historiography.

The paper presents the usefulness of the common sense psychology, as well as of the knowledge acquired in various traditions of academic psychology in historical interpretations.

The Author analyzes Professor Józef Andrzej Gierowski's cooperation with the Wrocław academic community after this eminent Polish historian moved to Cracow in the years 1965-2007.

The Author discusses the 8th General Congress of Polish Historians in Cracow in 1958 in the context of the so-called Polish "thaw".

This paper aims to open the discussion about historian's emotions during the research process that has mostly been covered up. It does not pretend to be a thorough account of the topic but a modest essay that might encourage other researcher to reflect on their experiences. Firstly, we briefly describe the current situation in a few neighboring disciplines. Secondly, we explain how we understand emotions and use the terms emotion, feeling and sentiment. Thirdly, we discuss the reasons why most historians keep silent about their feelings. Fourthly, with two examples, we illustrate how historians have written about their emotions. Fifthly, we present a model of emotional phases of research by the Danish social psychologist Steinar Kvale and evaluate its relevance to historical research. Then we look at the causes and/or objects offeelings of students or beginning scholars incultural history. Finally, we suggest some ways we historians could make our scholarly community emotionally a more supportive one. - It might be good to remember that our discussion concerns primarily the Finnish academic world, and the situation in other countries might be slightly different

This is a review article of Herman Paul's Masks of Meaning, Existentialist Humanism in Hayden Whites Philosophy of History. Paul's book is claimed to be a successful attempt to comprehend White's oeuvre as a whole. The author presents its structure and indicates the major arguments as well as some minor flaws, which however do not affect the merits that the book provides.

The Author presents a review of the book: For and against the Revolution. Two "Militant" Ideologies by Janusz Goćkowski.

Article presents a broad review of recently published work: Nation and History. Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War.

The Author presents philosophical commentaries to the Polish translation of Wilhelm Dilthey's Formation ofthe Historical World in the Humanities.