FRM565955: Warsaw, 1957. Chinese delegation and Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai's visit. Photographed: Tupolev Tu-104 air plane on which the Chinese delegation flew on. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565970: Warsaw, 10.1944. Warsaw uprising, uprising insurgent troop units leaving the city after surrender. Reproduction Zbyszko Siemaszko / Bridgeman Images

FRM565994: Warsaw, Poland, 1972. Men looking at the Polish Fiat 126p during the first public presentation of this car. The exhibition took place on Defilad square and was made under the motto ' Polish Fiat is the car for You'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566024: New Huta, 04.05.1988. Strike in Lenin steel plant. Photographed: Strike advisory committee. From right, Andrzej Stelmachowski, Jan Olszewski, Mieczyslaw Gil, Jerzy Skoczylas, Stanislaw Handzlik and Wladyslaw Kielian. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566033: New Huta, 04.05.1988. Strike in Lenin steel plant. Hall, machines, cross. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566042: New Huta, 04.05.1988. Strike in Lenin steel plant. Mechanical division during mass led by Priest Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566075: Turoszow, 1962. Turow mining and power plant, construction of electric co-generator. Steelworkers during construction. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566078: Turoszow, 1962. Turow mining and power plant, construction of electric co-generator. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566081: Turoszow, 1962. Turow mining and power plant, Turoszow open-pit mining, excavator. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566108: Huculszczyzna, Austria-Hungary (at the time), (present day Ukraine), 1916. World War I. View of the wooden Greek-Catholic church and its surroundings. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566171: Zambrow, 09.1939. City destroyed by the German army. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566174: 1917. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof (15.12.1859 -14.04.1917). Inventor of the international language Esperanto. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563829: Toasting glass with Polish emblem and the King's monogram 18th century. king's castle 2002. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563868: 06.1958. Soviet motorcycle friendship ride on route: Moscow, Terespol, Siedlce, Wyszkow, Pultusk, Olsztynek, Olsztyn, Grunwald, Warsaw. Photographed: soviet riders. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563964: 1972. Skii factory in Szaflara. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563997: Village near Polesiu, now Bialorus, 1935. School inspection committee. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564015: 1974. I Secretary of KPZR, (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Leonid Brzeniew's visit to Poland. Edward Gierek is standing next to him. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564078: Opole, ceiling ornament, crest of the Piast dynasty, St Ann's Chapel in Holy Trinity Church. place of Piast dynasty princes' tombs. South-Western Poland Upper Silesia, Opolishe Province 2001 / Bridgeman Images

FRM566222: Chorostkow, Austria-Hungary (at the time), (present day Ukraine), 1915. Partitions of Poland. Beggars kneeling outside church. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566225: Slonim, Russian Empire (at the time), (present day Belarus), 1917. Partitions of Poland. Jewish cemetery. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566237: Lezajsk, Poland, 1939/1940. Snow covered cemetery of polish soldiers killed during World War I. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566279: Warsaw, 1939. Refugees on Malachowski Square in front of Zaceta Gallery. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566285: Lomza 1939. Jews, Polish store. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566291: Warsaw, 09.1939. Second World War. First days of Warsaw's occupation by the German army. Jews forced to clean up the rubble on Grzybowski Square. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566300: Poznan; inter-war period, Poland, 1939. Jewish cemetery. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566357: Baranowicze, Russian Empire (at the time), (present day Belarus), 1917. Partition of Poland. German soldier standing next to a train. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566384: Lodz, inter-war period, Poland, 1930; People during anti tuberculosis social action; Slogan on the tram carriage is ' Everybody on the anti tuberculosis front line'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566399: Orla, inter-war period, Poland, 1928. City ruins after conflagration. In far plan is the synagogue which was rebuilt with polish government funds. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566423: Bielsko - Biala, inter-war period, Poland, 03.05.1930. View of the street at the May 3 Constitution Day. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566447: Malbork, Marienberg, medieval fortress of the teutonic order; one of the worlds biggest surviving complex of gothic architecture, former capital of the Teutonic Order State, built 13th century 2006 / Bridgeman Images

FRM566456: Lviv, inter-war Poland, (present day Ukraine), beginning of the 1930s. People sitting in a military medical car used by the Lviv public medical service. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566468: Lviv; inter-war Poland (present day Ukraine),1918 -1919 or 1920s. Lviv Orlat (' Eaglets') Cemetery. Coffins of unknown Polish-Lviv defenders killed during battle of Lviv against the Ukrainians. Most of Polish the defenders were very young or school-age volunteers - thats why they were called 'Eaglets'. They were mainly residents of the city. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566474: Lviv, inter-war Poland, nowadays Ukraine, around 1924; Junkers passenger aeroplane. Men standing in front of the first plane of polish airlines which landed at lviv airport. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566477: Lviv, Austria - Hungary (at the time), nowadays Ukraine, around 1890; Partition of Poland period; View of the street at Gorny Lyczako district. In the middle of the street goes horse drawn tram. / Bridgeman Images

FRM566492: Premier Jan Krzysztof Bielecki w sejmie grudzien 1991 Z lewej minister finansow Leszek Balcerowicz / Bridgeman Images

FRM566510: Warsaw, 11.07.1988. Polish-Soviet relations. Secretary general of KC KPZR (Soviet Union)Michail Gorbaczow in Poland. Visit in Parliament. He is welcomed by Parliament Marshal Roman Malinowski. / Bridgeman Images