The Polish case and European diplomacy in the 19th century. Sources in the collections of the London archives (The National Archives and The British Library)

Abstract

The article contains information about documents relating to Polish affairs in the collections of The National Archives and The British Library in London. These are materials that, in chronological order, refer to the Polish issue in European diplomacy in the era of the Congress of Vienna, the November Uprising and the period immediately after its fall, Polish emigration after 1831, the fate of the Republic of Krakow and the Krakow Uprising and the Galician robbery of 1846, correspondence with the British consulate in Warsaw, the Polish issue during the Crimean War and the January Uprising. Documents of British origin dominate, but the examined collections also include materials produced by Russian, Prussian, Austrian, French and Dutch diplomacy. They were prepared primarily in English, but some of them are provided in the original language - i.e. in French and occasionally also in German with an attached translation into English.