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The roots and guises of ‘Mother’s Day’

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

bright and colourful painting of a young woman reading a book.

The Dutch reform dress movement

How many statues near you represent women?

Feminine willpower through fashion

Astronomy in all its forms