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Bauhaus and Walter Gropius

The Swedish adventure of Bedřich Smetana

The roots and guises of ‘Mother’s Day’

Colourful skirt composed of numerous patches of fabric embroidered with '19 Dec. 1935', '16 April 1945', 'Henrietta van Gulik' and stamped 'National Party Skirt..., 1947'

How post-war upcycling became a symbol of female solidarity

Antonín Dvořák's American music

The majority of the Lithuanian diaspora live in the United States

An ethnologist in the Nordic Countries

Ferenc ‘Pancho’ Puskás and Hungarian footballers in El Clásico

From Russia with love

colour drawing of the actress Josephine Baker, in profile, wearing a red jacket

Dancer, spy and freedom fighter

black and white portrait photograph of Jelena J. Dimitrijević.

Jelena J. Dimitrijević, Serbia’s first feminist author

black and white photograph, a man kissing a woman on the hand

The extraordinary life and times of Lithuanian actor

Great female characters in European literature

painting portrait of a a middle-aged, dark-haired woman in a black dress, against a blue and turquoise wallpaper

Polish painter who lived in Munich and Paris

How Charles stole Lizzie's idea and made his fortune

From the Enlightenment to the dawn of Romanticism

svetla in barvita slika mlade ženske, ki bere knjigo.

The Dutch reform dress movement

How many statues near you represent women?

Feminine willpower through fashion