Femininity as encounter of technology and sensuality in the 1920s and 1930s
Why the shamrock is a symbol of Ireland
How Saint Patrick explained the holy trinity
School sports: photographs from the Rathdown School Archive
Archive photographs from a girls school in Dublin
Frida Kahlo: identity in art
Role model for generations of artists, bisexual women and people with disabilities
Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer and actress
The first Swede to hit the US charts
Empress Cixi, the last woman to rule China
In the 19th century, when Queen Victoria was on the throne, another woman was governing a world power on the opposite side of the globe: Empress Dowager Cixi.
The women behind Beauty and the Beast
Meet the authors and illustrators who brought the fairy tale to life
Madame Delait, the bearded lady
Clémentine Delait found fame in the early 1900s
Eartha Kitt: singer, actor and activist
Known for her distinctive singing style and voice, Eartha Kitt was active in social causes in the 1950s and 1960s
Swimmer and survivor: Hungarian Olympic champion Éva Székely
Olympic gold medallist who survived the Holocaust and lived through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
The Nordic Black Theatre in Oslo
Multicultural theatre company inspiring new generations of performers
Confronting oppression through politics, literature and music
Vocalising against oppression
Mother tongues: four languages of the African diaspora
Poetry, writing and music in Guadeloupe Creole, Twi, Ewe and Xhosa
Frederick Douglass in Europe
Transatlantic perspectives on American abolitionist and anti-slavery campaigner
Salomon Rosenbaum & Jewish life in Sweden
Jewish immigrant Rosenbaum ran a drapery store in Sundsvall for decades
Audre Lorde, James Baldwin & Astrid Roemer
Three Black authors from the Americas who have lived in Europe
Michaél Mac Liammóir & Hilton Edwards
Partners & pioneers of Irish theatre
Love for life: the mandarin duck
A bright-coloured mohawk, green forehead, orange sideburns, purple collar and perching toes: not your idea of a dream date? The mandarin duck could make you reconsider!
Miriam Makeba - Mama Africa
Singer-songwriter and advocate for the rights of Black people across the world
Patrick Kelly: American roots, Parisian style
African-American fashion designer Kelly broke barriers in the stiff European fashion industry
