Direktor: Prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Pánek, DrSc.

"The Institute, re-established in 1990, is the successor of the Czechoslovak State Historical Publishing Institute, which was founded in 1920 and incorporated in 1953 into the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences as the Academy's Institute of History. In 1970, this Institute was abolished and reorganised to form the Institute of Czechoslovak and World History within the Academy, which was dissolved in 1989. In 1993, the renewed Institute of History was merged with part of the former Institute of Central and East European History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences."

Ceský casopis historický - Czech Historical Journal; Slovanský prehled - Slavonic Review

"The scientific work of the Institute is concerned with Bohemian, Czechoslovak and general (especially Central and East European) history in the period from Early Middle Ages to World War II, as well as economic history and historical geography, and the theory and methods of historical research. The Institute publishes critical editions of medieval and modern sources and of systematic and selected bibliography on Czech history, and has also published a Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands. The Institute contains an extremely invaluable collection of Bohemian historical literature, including old publications and first issues, as well as an extensive collection of historical maps and atlases, published from the 17th century to the present time. In addition, the collections of the Institute include the legacy of August Sedláček, renowned Czech historian."