FRM564806: Warsaw, Poland, 31.12.1975. New Year's Eve party. People standing in a queue to make phone calls to their loved ones. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564848: Warsaw, Poland, 1978. Steelworks 'Huta Warsaw'. Delivery of drinking water to the workers of the steel plant in summer. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564866: Warsaw, Poland, 1976; Free Saturday. Woman and man smoking cigarettes in the courtyard. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564890: Uherce, 30.09.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Andrzej Rozplochowski (NSZZ Solidarity National Comission, Huta Katowice). / Bridgeman Images

FRM564893: Uherce, 10.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Prison defence branch in a prison in Uherca. Behind the bars, first from right: Janusz Sanocki (MKZ Nysa). / Bridgeman Images

FRM564896: Zaleze, near Rzeszowa, 09.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. hunger strike in Zaleze prison. Bowls put on the corridor by the internmentees. The hunger strike was aimed at forcing the prison commanders to move 3 hunger strike internmentees (Ryszarda Majdzika, Janusz Szkutnika and Marka Kisza) to a civil hospital where they would not be force-fed. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564917: 04.06.1989. Pictures to be used on campaign banners for Senate Elections. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564980: Warsaw, 1946. Krakowskie Przedmiescie street. Man pulling a cart carrying drinking water. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564992: Warsaw, 1947. Laying of railway tracks. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565001: Warsaw, 1947. St Alexander Church on Three Cross Square. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565034: Warsaw, 1945-1946. Boat on Vistula river. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565088: Warsaw, 1955. Newspaper printing publishing house. Man writing on machine. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565130: Warsaw 04.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland, Krakowskie Przedmiescie, courtyard between Saint Anne Church and bell tower. In picture: Cross made of tear gas cannisters used by ZOMO to pacify the crowds the day before. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565136: Construction of the Pulsudkiego sand hill(heap) in Cracow 1935. Lots of Poles came from all over Polad to take part in the heaping of the hill. Postcard showing the event. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565178: Dabrowa Gornicza, 02.1976. Construction of Huta Katowica. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565199: Gdansk, 08.1980. Ryszard Kapuscinski at the Gdansk Shipyard. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565202: Warsaw, 03.1993. Ryszard Kapuscinski, in his apartment. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565229: Lata 60. Urszula Dudziak. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565238: Warsaw, 07.06.1989. American singer Joan Baez sings for Solidarnosc supporters in tractor factory in Ursus after Solidarnorsc's victory in parliamentary elections. Solidarity banner and piano in background. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565265: Katowice 16.12.1981. Martial Law in Poland, The pacification of 'Wujek' strike. In picture: a miner hurt during an attack at the mine is removed from the area by his colleagues. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565268: Katowice 16.12.1981. Martial Law in Poland, The pacification of Wujek strike. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565280: Warsaw, 3-5.08.1980. Round-about blockade on Marszalkowska street and Jerozolimskie Avenue intersection. A demonstration organised by NSZZ Solidarity. Banner on bus reading, 'Don't destroy the nation'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565286: Gdansk, 1979. 6th Polish Film Festival. Film director, Agnieszka Holland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565304: Warsaw, 05.1975. Party action; women clearing up non-recyclables. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565322: Wloclawek, Poland, 08.11.1979. Workshop in the ceramic tableware factory. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565343: Warsaw, Poland, 30.11.1970. Delivery of drinks for a restaurant at Olszynka Grochowska. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565349: Warsaw, Poland, 29.02.1973. Rebuilding of the Royal Castle in Warsaw (Zamek Krolewski Warszawie) on the Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy). The monument is the Zygmunt's Column (Kolumna Zygmunta). / Bridgeman Images

FRM565376: 07.06.1979. Zebrzydowska Calvary, Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565403: Gdansk, 12.06.1987. Pope John Paul II's 4th Pilgrimage to Poland, visit to Westerplatte. From left: Tadeusz Goclowski, John Paul II, from right Franciszek Macharski. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565457: Wadowice, 07.06.1979. Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland. Karol Wojtla's first visit to his home city after his appointment as Pope. Pope surrounded by Wadowice altar servers who served during the mass. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565487: Warsaw, Poland, 09.1972. TheTrybuna Ludu (People's Tribune) newspaper festival. The slogan on the decoration reads 'Do read Trybuna Ludu'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565496: Kozienice, 1978. Kozienice Power Station. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565529: Cracow, 1937-1939. Pilsudski memorial hill. Reproduction of post card. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565553: Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known as 'Litwos'), 05.05.1846 -15.11.1916). Journalist and novelist. Henryk received a Nobel prize in literature. Sienkiewicz was a Polish aristocrat of the Oszyk coat of arms. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565556: Stanislaw Moniuszko (05.05.1819 - 04.06.1872). The father of Polish national opera. Polish composer, conductor and teacher. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565568: Warsaw, 1930s. Dunajec ship on Vistula river. / Bridgeman Images