The first twenty volumes (1: 1946–20: 1965) have been published here thanks to the funding granted by the Minister of Science and Higher Education under Project No. 175 in 2016. We are happy to inform you that as a result of obtaining funding for another project, twenty more volumes will be made available by the end of 2017 (21: 1966–40: 1985).

Following the suggestion of Minister Jarosław Gowin (see the letter), the publications are made available as free content. All publications are presented in PDF format, which can be read by means of the free Adobe Reader programme [link]. The form of the publications has been left unchanged in comparison with the paper versions. This makes it possible not only to study them, but also to use them in research without the slightest difference in citations in comparison with traditional publications.

The editorial board of Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka and its publisher, the Wrocław Friends of History Society, have received numerous requests from Polish and foreign scholars and academics to make all issues of the quarterly published so far available on-line in the form of PDF files. Wanting to comply with these requests, we kindly ask all who may hold copyright on texts published in our periodical to contact us via e-mail (Editorial board: sobotka@hist.uni.wroc.pl; WTMH: (atohistoria@wtmh.pl) or traditional mail (50–139 Wrocław, ul. Szewska 49). We are ready to immediately pay any due copyright fees.