Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences

The Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences conducts research on history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Its 12 chronological or thematic departments employ 138 people in research and documentation positions. The activity of the employees is reflected in national and international research projects. Currently, 43 such projects are being implemented, financed mainly by the National Science Centre and the National Programme for the Development of Humanities. The results of this work include monographs, syntheses, collections of studies, and teaching outlines, as well as documentation activities (editorial, dictionary, dictionary-biographical, cartographic-historical, encyclopedic, and database work) and studies in the field of source studies and auxiliary sciences of history.

Since 1991, the Publishing Department of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences has been publishing works created as part of the unit’s research plans. In addition, in cooperation with scientific institutions and publishers, it publishes 13 journals, including Kwartalnik Historyczny (Historical Quarterly) and the English-language Acta Poloniae Historica. The Institute continues to publish editions of fundamental importance to national culture, such as the Polish Biographical Dictionary, the Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Polish Lands in the Middle Ages, the Bibliography of Polish History, and the Historical Atlas of Poland.

The Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences is the leading unit of the Anthropos Doctoral School of the Polish Academy of Sciences institutes. It also runs a historical library, which is accessible to all researchers.