text by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish In 1813 Jane Austen published one of her most popular and much-loved novels – Pride and Prejudice. Five years later, in 1818 in Edinburgh, a Scottish writer Susan Ferrier published her first novel The Marriage. It was immensely popular and sold 1,500 copies within the first 6 months. Big sales meant that […]
text by Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz The history of Batman, though nominally beginning in 1939, has much older roots. The creation of the comic book hero is disputed – whether the credit belongs to Bob Kane or Bill Fingers; although both authors cite different sources as their inspiration (Leonardo da Vinci’s drafts, Robert the Bruce, Baroness Orczy’s […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko Our group was officially established on February 23rd 2022, and within these 12 months we have been far from idle;) Why not use this anniversary to take a brief look at what we’ve been doing? QAQV blogs After some technical glitches, our redesigned website went live in April and we started […]