Our first office in old Yugoslavia was opened on 13 January 1940. It was known as the Yugoslav-British Institute and occupied the first two floors of the Anglo-American-Yugoslav club. The Club itself was located in the heart of the town, in the building that is today known as Albanija. At that time we had two main activities: running English language courses and an English kindergarten.

During the Second World War the work was disrupted, but was resumed as early as in June 1945. The first British Council Library was set up as part of the operation in 1946. Development of cultural and technical cooperation was also very rapid with first exchanges and visits taking place in 1947 (See picture on the left).

Having moved premises several times and having had our office and library separated for almost 40 years, we settled into our current building on Terazije Street in January 2001. It is now some 100 metres away from the place where the first office began work as part of the Yugoslav-British Institute.