Darja Golková was born on 8^th November 1967 in Ostrava. From early childhood she lived in Brno, where she attended elementary school and grammar school. After graduation she was accepted to study history and archival studies at the Faculty of Arts, UJEP, Brno in 1986. She was one of the students at the Faculty who joined the FF UJEP Strike Committee during the November 1989 Revolution. Together with Renata Brozova, they joined Pavel Kocman and Ivo Durec and helped them to organise documents and create a set - today's FF UJEP Strike Committee materials. In 1990, together with Renáta Brožová, she was the author of the final version and the organisation of the entire collection, which she handed over to the Archive of Masaryk University in the following year. After graduation, she became an archivist at the Břeclav State Archives, based in Mikulov, where she has worked since.