FRM564199: 1942. King George VI and General Sikorski. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564202: 1941. General Sikorski decorating Polish navy soldiers aboard the Grom-class destroyer ship. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564235: 1948. Polish People's Army, 4th Assault Aviation Regiment from Bydgoszcz. archive Foka / Bridgeman Images

FRM564238: 11.11.1979. President Bronislaw Maria Komorowski(left), (born 04.06.1952). Politician, social activist and current President of the Republic of Poland. Former Marshal of the Sejm. Former Acting President after the death of President Lech Kaczynski. Bronislaw Komorowski was the Minister of Defence from 2000 to 2001. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564250: Stanislaw Moniuszko (05.05.1819-04.06.1872). The father of Polish national opera. Polish composer, conductor and teacher. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564262: Kazimierz Michal Waclaw Wiktor Pulaski (06.03.1745 - 11.10.1779). 'The father of American cavalry', General, gentleman, and politician. Kazimierz Pulaski is one of only seven people to receive honorary United States of America citizenship. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564277: 23 April 1935. President of the Republic of Poland, Ignacy Moscicki signing the April constitution. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564283: Gdansk 11.04.2005. Huge portrait of Pope John Paull II hung on the NSZZ Solidarity building in Gdansk after his death. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564292: Warsaw, 31. 08. 1982. Zamkowy square riots on the anniversary of the uprising of 'Solidarnosc'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564295: Warsaw, 31. 08. 1982. Zamkowy square riots on the anniversary of the uprising of 'Solidarity'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564301: Bankiet po chrzcinach Brygidy Walesy,corki Lecha i Danuty na terenie plebanii ks.Henryka Jankowskiego.Przy stole Tadeusz Mazowiecki i ks.Henryk Jankowski Gdansk 28 luty 1986 Jerzy Kosnik / Bridgeman Images

FRM564304: Jerzy Skolimowski, Anouk Aimee, Michael Lyndon, Michael York Festiwal Filmowy Cannes 1984 / Bridgeman Images

FRM564325: Gdansk, 29.04.1989. Lech Walesa photo session with Solidarnosc citizen's committee candidates for law ministers, senate and parliamentary elections in June 1989. Photographed from left: Andrzej Wajda, Lech Walesa. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564349: Poznan one of the oldest and largest Polish cities,Western Poland, Monumentof the victims of Poznan 1956 protests - the first anti-communist mass protest in socialist Poland Greater Poland Province, 2007 / Bridgeman Images

TRK561541: Arch of Constantine. Rome. Italy. / Bridgeman Images

TRK561564: Basin with reliefs of a marine procession (Thiasos). Rome. Italy. / Bridgeman Images

TRK561615: Relief commemorating the victories of a gladiator, 1st century BC, Roman, (1st century BC) / Bridgeman Images

FRM563505: Cracow, 1979. Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland, welcoming at airport. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563544: Warsaw, Ursus 07.11.1988. Infront of the memorial monument of 1976. Zbigniew Bujak is speaking. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563559: Gniezno, Central-Western Poland, Cathedral, Basilica, historic first capital of Poland, Greater Poland province, the cathedral known for its twelfth-century (circa 1175), two-winged bronze doors decorated with scenes of martyrdom of St. Wojciech. 2008 / Bridgeman Images

FRM563568: Katowice, Poland, 1976. Miner's orchestra at the Miner's Day parade at Silesia. One of musicians is little boy playing on drum. Barborka is celebrated on the 4th of December. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563583: Czestochowa, 1979. Pope John Paul II's first visit to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563616: Warsaw, 1961. Peace race. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563628: 1983. Pope John Paul II's second Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563631: Warsaw, Poland, 1975. Fashion photo session taken at the roof of the 'Centrum' department store complex. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563646: Pilsudski's First Division foot legion (Vilnius Army) at a parade for General Stefan Dab-Biernacki, Vilnius 1937-39 / Bridgeman Images

FRM563652: Warsaw, Poland, 1976. Couples dancing in the famous students club 'Hybrydy'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563667: Smolarz, 1970. Forestrynarrow gauge railway. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563712: Warsaw, 1930. Saski Palace. Prince Poniatowski monument. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564358: Gdansk, Neptune sculpture - fountain, the old town city on the Baltic coast, northern Poland, Pomerania province. Polands fourth largest metropolitan area. 2008 / Bridgeman Images

FRM564370: Cracow, Poland. Altar piece of Veit Stoss in St Mary's Basilica. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564388: Gniezno, Central-Western Poland, Cathedral, Basilica, historic first capital of Poland, Greater Poland province, the cathedral known for its twelfth-century (circa 1175), two-winged bronze doors decorated with scenes of martyrdom of St. Wojciech. here becomes a bishop and prays 2008 / Bridgeman Images

FRM564391: Witold Gombrowicz, writer. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564634: Cieszyn, Southern Poland, on the border with Czech Republic, military parade 1938 postcard dated 1938, celebrating regain of Zaolzie, Olsagebiet, the Cieszyn Silesia region from Czechs. Polish offensive led by general Wladyslaw Bortnowski / Bridgeman Images

FRM564655: Dead bodies of Lipniki Village residents in Volhynia. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army murdered 182 people. Photograph from the Independence museum in Warsaw under the title ' Volhynia extermination'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564661: Ruins of Gdansk Old Town in 1945. Red Army approaching city. / Bridgeman Images