The History of Scouting in South Bohemia

The thesis deals with the history of scouting in the world and in the Czech countries, from the beginning until nowadays, specifically it focuses on the history of scouting in southern Bohemia. It primarily focuses on the development of the scout movement in individual scout troops of the South Bohemian region and on the process of their activities from the beginning until the 1950 s. The development of scouting in the selected area is divided into partial phases according to important milestones in the historical development of our country. The thesis deals with all important circumstances related to the birth of development of scouting. The first two chapters describe the history of world and czech scouting, chronologically according to individual time periods. The second two chapters, which are crucial for this thesis, focus on the development and history of scouting in southern Bohemia and in individual regions of this area. In this part the thesis describes two crucial periods of scout development. The first period maps the beginning of scouting in southern Bohemia and in cities from the beginning. It focuses on the 1920 s and 1930 s. The second period maps the post-war years until the date of the end of scouting. In this part thesis focuses on the post-war period from 1945 to 1950. The oldest informations were derived from the preserved archival materials and chronicles of individual scout troops. Periodicals and newspaper articles also became a source of informations. It was also derived from almanacs created by scout witnesses. Recent data were based on current literature that processed the history of scouting