EverywhereHistory started in Brisbane in 2015.
At the time I had been living in Australia for several years and had become increasingly interested in the places around me. I visited museums, walked around Brisbane suburbs, travelled around Queensland and went on road trips across Australia.
I kept finding stories I hadn’t known before.
So I started writing about them.
That was the first version of EverywhereHistory.
Then, eventually, I stopped.
A few years have passed since the last post, I’ve moved from Australia back to Poland, and a lot has changed. But the habit that started the original blog never really disappeared.
I still stop to look at old buildings.
I still photograph information boards.
I still come home from trips wanting to know why something was built there, what used to stand in that place or what happened in a town I had previously known only as a name on a road sign.
And I still collect far too many brochures from museums.
So EverywhereHistory is back.
Version 2.0
This is a new blog rather than a simple continuation of the old one.
The basic idea, however, is very similar.
Come with me, I found something interesting.
I’m not trying to create a history encyclopaedia and I’m not approaching these places as a professional historian.
Most stories will begin because I went somewhere and noticed something.
Sometimes that will happen during a bicycle ride. Sometimes while walking through Warsaw. Sometimes I’ll take a train to a nearby town specifically to explore it. At other times I’ll start researching a place at home and then go there to see what remains.
The journey and the research become part of the same process.
Starting with the Vistula
The first major series on the new EverywhereHistory comes from a fairly long journey.
In July 2026 I rode the Wisła 1200 race, following Poland’s longest river from the mountains in the south to the Baltic Sea.
I finished the ride with hundreds of kilometres behind me, photographs, GPS tracks, notes and a much longer list of things I wanted to understand.
During a ride like that there isn’t always time to stop and investigate everything properly.
That is where the blog comes in.
The opening EverywhereHistory series follows that journey along the Vistula, but the bicycle ride is only part of the story. The river passes towns, landscapes, monuments, industrial sites and places connected with centuries of Polish history.
The ride gave me the route.
Now I can go back and look more closely.
Warsaw, Mazovia and ordinary places
Most new stories will initially come from much closer to home.
Warsaw alone gives me more than enough material.
Beyond Warsaw there are the towns, villages, forests, railway lines and roads of Mazovia. Many are places I’ve already crossed on foot, by bicycle, by train or while travelling somewhere else.
Some deserve another visit.
Others probably contain stories I haven’t noticed yet.
That’s one of the ideas behind the new EverywhereHistory. An expedition doesn’t have to begin at an airport.
It can begin by getting on a local train or riding a bicycle out of your front door.
And eventually, back to Australia
Starting the blog again also gives me an opportunity to return to another part of my life.
I lived in Australia for 12 years.
During that time I travelled widely, particularly around Brisbane and Queensland, visited museums and historical sites and collected photographs, brochures, magazines and other material from many of those places.
Some became posts on the original EverywhereHistory.
Many never did.
I still have that archive.
So the Australian part of EverywhereHistory isn’t finished. I’ll gradually revisit the original articles, check what I wrote, research the places again and create new versions for this blog.
There will also be stories from trips that never appeared on the old site.
In a way, it will be another journey through Australia, just made from Warsaw with a large collection of old photographs and a lot of material I’ve carried with me for years.
And perhaps, one day, some of those places will get another visit in person.
Why bring the blog back?
There is also a very practical reason.
I realised how easily things disappear from memory.
I can remember visiting a town but forget what I learned there. I can photograph an information board and never properly read it. I can hear an interesting story during a trip and remember only half of it a few years later.
EverywhereHistory gives those things somewhere to go.
It is partly a blog for other people, but it is also my own growing record of places I’ve visited and things I’ve learned along the way.
If somebody else reads one of those stories and decides to stop at a building, town or monument they would otherwise have passed, even better.
So, after a fairly long break, this is EverywhereHistory 2.0.
There is a lot to explore.