“Wieki Stare I Nowe” (Eng. trans. "The Old and the New Ages”) appears as a yearbook of the Institute of History of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Articles published in it cover Polish and general history from antiquity to the most recent times. Original research into borderland issues is preferred. The journal is divided into the following sections: Articles, Review articles and Reviews. All the articles that appear in the pages of “Wieki Stare i Nowe” are peer-reviewed. They also have English summaries.

We thank our authors and reviewers for their collaboration and invite all to publish their texts in the journal.

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2025-01-29

The editors of 'Wieki Stare i Nowe' (‘Ages Old and New’) would like to inform you that they are completing the materials for volume 20 (25), 2025. We invite authors to submit scientific articles, review articles and reviews until 31 March 2025

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Zaproszenie do nadsyłania tekstów na 2023 r.

2022-07-18

Redakcja „Wieków Starych i Nowych” pragnie poinformować, że kompletuje  materiały do tomu 19 (24), 2024.  Zapraszamy Autorów do nadsyłania artykułów naukowych, artykułów recenzyjnych i recenzji do 31 marca 2024 roku.

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Vol. 19 No. 24 (2024)
Published: 2025-01-31


ISSN: 1899-1556
eISSN: 2353-9739

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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