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Seven pioneering women authors from Spain

Saints, social reformers, journalists, poets and feminists

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Melitta Bentz - the woman who invented the coffee filter

How a housewife from Dresden revolutionised the way we drink coffee

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All about lace

Antwerp and the making of European history

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The Grunwick industrial action

Strike in London for the rights of women and migrant workers

Afro-European Women writers

Three women writing Caribbean and European stories

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The Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking

The United Kingdom's first purpose-built place of Islamic worship

Jewish Heritage in Halberstadt

Tracing the early history of the city's Jewish communities

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Aleksandar Joksimović: socialist fashion

Tradition and politics in the designs of Yugoslavia's leading designer

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Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik

Music and migration in the 20th century

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Poetry in the city

The Dutch tradition of displaying poems on streets and walls

A glimpse of Jewish Minsk

Forgotten stories of three buildings in Belarus

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How did nicotine get its name?

Meet the man who gave his name to tobacco's addictive stimulant

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Celebrating a year of culture in Leeds

Art, industry and culture in Yorkshire's capital city

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Hats from Zagreb

Over a century of Croatian fashion history

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Botanical Illustration Colouring Book

Explore and enjoy stunning plants while colouring

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The unusual story of Jacobus Capitein

Enslavement, theology and a literary legacy

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House for an Art Lover

An Art Nouveau home by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald

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Stolperstein: remembering those lost in the Holocaust

Paving stones across Europe to commemorate victims of persecution

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Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre - as illustrated by Paula Rego

Artworks inspired by stories and literature, girlhood and feminism