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World Collage Day

World Collage Day is an annual international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. This an excellent opportunity to learn more about this technique, explore cultural heritage collections and get creative.

colour photograph of the Hagia Sophia Church
5 buildings that have been both mosques and churches

Architecture crossing cultures

black and white portrait photograph of Mela Muter
Mela Muter, a Polish artist in Paris

Painting the beauty of everyday life

colour photograph of a field of red tulips with a windmill in the background.
How the tulip became a symbol of Turkey and the Netherlands

The history of a floral motif over several centuries

What is an easter palm?

Learn how to make an easter palm

ritratt iswed u abjad ta' Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi, waħda mill-ewwel nisa fix-xjenza

Xjenzata mara pijuniera f'Bolonja tas-seklu 18

black and white photograph of a group of people
Our Fatima of Liverpool

The first woman to convert to Islam in Liverpool

Mystics of the medieval and modern ages

Women of wisdom and courage

black abstract drawing
Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram

Female pioneers of electronic music

Four children by a water pump, two older children pumping water and the other two younger ones looking on.
Through the eyes of Dorothea Lange

Documenting the The Great Depression and Japanese American internment

illustrazzjoni botanika ta' pjanta bil-weraq aħmar u aħdar
8 artisti nisa tal-botanika minn madwar l-Ewropa

Kontribut kemm għall-arti kif ukoll għax-xjenza

illustration of a woman kneeling in front of a frog
Jessie M. King

Artist, designer and pioneer of the Glasgow Style

Sybil Connolly - Dublin's Dior

Forging a path for Irish designers

Maneli, men’s meeting place in Heinola, was located on the corner of Torikatu street and Kauppakatu street in Heinola, Finland. Women bought newly-baked bread on the other side of the building in the Maneli Bakery. A boy rides a bicycle along Kauppakatu street.
'Little Pietari’s town' by Anja Halla

Photographer documenting two decades in a Finnish town

Black and white photograph of Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier.
Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier

The lesbian love story at the heart of a Parisian bookstore

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sepia toned photograph of a woman sitting at a desk reading a letter
Seven pioneering women authors from Spain

Saints, social reformers, journalists, poets and feminists

iswed u abjad ta' Melitta Bentz
Melitta Bentz - il-mara li inventat il-filtru tal-kafè

Kif mara tad-dar minn Dresden irrivoluzzjonat il-mod kif nixorbu l-kafè

a close up picture of spools of lace bunched together, in the process of being made into a lace work.
All about lace: the history and future of lace in Antwerp

How lace-making is interwoven into European history

black and white photograph, group of people protesting with placards and posters
The Grunwick industrial action

Strike in London for the rights of women and migrant workers