Stories

Discover inspiring people, remarkable places and ground-breaking ideas through cultural heritage stories from Europe and beyond
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A portrait of The Hague
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Walter Flex and a map with bullet hole
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Happy birthday to the British Museum
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Jan van Goyen
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Marco Polo - the man who brought China to Europe
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From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus
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Double double, toil and trouble: witches and witchcraft
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Lope de Vega - never short of a drama
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Who am I and why am I here?
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The Freedom Monument: celebrating Latvian independence
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Four lives devoted to promoting peace
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Are these the greatest inventions since sliced bread?
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Boy Scouts of Romania on the Eastern Front
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Gavrilo Princip: on himself
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5 incredible images of plastic surgery from the past
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Say Cheese: facial expressions captured by Duchenne
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Memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall - my father's experiences
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Youth is life’s flower - Transylvanian soldier's diaries of life in a Japanese POW camp
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Painting the Eiffel Tower
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Maestro Verdi - most performed composer ever
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Edgar Degas - the Impressionist who disliked Impressionism
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Freud - father of psychoanalysis
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Photographs of vintage hair styling
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Once upon a time... From Brothers Grimm to political correctness