FRM565000: Warsaw, 1947. Flat in Army residential building. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563499: Warsaw, Okecie airport 1983. Pope John Paul II's second Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563580: Cracow, 1979. Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563613: Warsaw, June 1987 - Saint John Cathedral. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Meeting with Nuns. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564000: Krynica Gorska Zdroj, resort town in Southern Poland, Dubbed the pearl of polish health resorts, Lesser Poland Province, Beskids mountains. Teachers from Kobryn on vacations organized by Teachers' Association. left: Rywicka, Karolina Buniakowska, Jachołkowska, Bronisław Buniakowski, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

FRM564069: Bielsko Biala, Silesia province, southern Poland, the Polish Theatre interior, auditorium and the historic coutairn, the theatre resembles the famous Slowacki Theatre in Cracow / Bridgeman Images

FRM564321: Warsaw kosciol sw.St.Kostki 03 list 1984 Tadeusz Mazowiecki na pogrzebie ksiedza Jerzego Popieluszki / Bridgeman Images

FRM564824: Warsaw, 01.06.07. Graffiti immortalising Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland in 1979. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564827: Poland, 1970s. A farmer helps to pull out a tractor from the mud. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564845: Warsaw, Poland, 1976. Free Saturday. People standing in a queue for bread. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564851: Warsaw, 06.1981. First visit to Poland. Czeslaw Milosz (30.06.1911 - 14.08.2004). Nobel prize winner in literature, poet, essayist and translator. Czeslaw was anti-Stalin and his novel 'The captive mind' show cases his beliefs. He was a Slavic language and literature professor at the University of California. (1961-1998). / Bridgeman Images

FRM564854: Warsaw, 06.1981. First visit to Poland. Czeslaw Milosz (30.06.1911 - 14.08.2004). Nobel prize winner in literature, poet, essayist and translator. Czeslaw was anti-Stalin and his novel 'The captive mind' show cases his beliefs. He was a Slavic language and literature professor at the University of California. (1961-1998). / Bridgeman Images

FRM564878: Gdansk, June 1989. Demonstration in protest of the 4th of June elections as well as against findings of the round table. Arch of building in background. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564887: Bialoleka, 08.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. One of the intermentees from Solidarity party Henryk Bak goes under fence and picks up unused cigarettes thrown by the criminal prisoners onto the grass in order to give them back to them. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564905: Zaleze, near Rzeszowa, 31.08.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Solemn appeal on a walk on the 2nd anniversary of the signing of the Gdansk agrrement in 1980. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564908: Zaleze, near Rzeszowa, 09.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. In middle, Bolko Skowron during a family visit. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564911: Zaleze, near Rzeszowa, 09.09.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Internmentees share a meal after the ending of a hunger strike in a prison in Zaleze. Lunch in the church chapel prepared by Jozef Ruszar. 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

FRM564935: Bialoleka, 07.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Zbigniew Sarata of NSZZ Solidarity (Mazowsze region) stamps envelopes with free internment post stamps. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564947: Gdansk, 1947. Destroyed city. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564950: Wroclaw, 1948. Butchery. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564965: Kalisz, 1950. Lace and fabric factory. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564986: Warsaw, 1946. Photographer. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563645: Vilnius, Pilsudski's First Division foot legion (Vilnius Army) at a parade for General Stefan Dab-Biernacki, Vilnius 1937-39 / Bridgeman Images

FRM564005: 15.08.1932. Organised shooting event in Kobryn. Cyclist relay team in celebration of Army holiday. Photograph taken by Bronislaw Buniakowski. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564152: Warsaw, 1976. Poland-Cyprus match. Zbigniew 'Zibi' Kazimierz Boniek (born 03.03.1956). Former Polish footballer and coach. He received a Golden Foot career award in 2009. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564194: Second world war; / Bridgeman Images

FRM564233: 1946. Return of seasonal workers from Rzesz. Isar ship transported them to Szczecin. Polish people transported to Germany. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564245: Kielce, September 1939. Captured Polish soldiers on the way to railway wagons. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564272: Ulanska 1930. Horses crossing the Vistula river. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564323: Warsaw, 23.04.1989. Solidarity Citizen's Candidate Committee session with participation from the founders of the Citizen's Regional Committee at Warsaw University. Photographed from left: Bronislaw Geremek, Andrzej Wielowieyjski and Henryk Wujec (committee secretary). / Bridgeman Images

FRM564530: 1926-1927, Grodno, Bialystok. Lounge for 76th foot infantry. Anna Zagorska sitting by the desk. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564735: Warsaw, 09.11.1989. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's (left) visit to Poland. Reception of part of the guests in Namiestnikow Place. Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki on the right. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564747: Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, 07.1970. Village on fire. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564762: Warsaw, Poland, 1972. Block of flats at the Sadyba housing estate. Naked woman sunbathing on the balcony. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564777: Chorzow Poland 1976. Polish national football team during a training session in Slaski Stadium ( Silesian Stadium ). From the left are: Pawel Janas, Zbigniew Boniek and Andrzej Szarmach. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564801: Ursus, Warsaw, Poland, 1978. Workers watching a theatrical play performed by Teatr Ochota actors in a workshop of the 'Ursus' Tractor Factory. / Bridgeman Images