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April 18th marks the International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites.
Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba city
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The Anig Village Mosque. April 18 is the International Day of monuments and historical sites
Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba city
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Momina Khatun sepulcher. April 18th is the International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites.
Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba city
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106th anniversary of the 1918 genocide of Azerbaijanis,
Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba city
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BY EUROPEANA
27.09.2018
Arthurian Literature: Foundation for a Common History in Europe
No literary figure has stood the test of time quite like King Arthur . His story has inspired people across Europe for centuries. King Arthur: a Legendary Figure The earliest reference to Arthur...
BY EUROPEANA
25.09.2018
‘All of Europe is my country’ and other stories from Europeana Migration
Europeana Migration brings together digital collections dedicated to the theme of migration to, from and within Europe, sourced from both cultural heritage institutions and the public. When Museum...
BY EUROPEANA
21.09.2018
The nature of Turkestan – legacy of Ernst Kleiber
It was in January 2014 during our second series of Europeana 1914-1918 collection days in Berlin that a very special and unique contribution to our project was made: the richly-illustrated...
BY EUROPEANA
20.09.2018
The ‘Romance of the Rose’: A Medieval Guide to Love
This poem about living and loving in medieval courts was both very popular and controversial in the late Middle Ages and throughout the Renaissance. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, ‘Le Roman...
BY EUROPEANA
13.09.2018
Banned Authors – who got on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
Many noteworthy authors were put on the Index librorum prohibitorum because their works were seen to cause religious, political and moral controversies. Famous names on the Roman Index include: ...
BY EUROPEANA
08.09.2018
International Literacy Day 2018 with Rise of Literacy project
Specimens of Calligraphy, Inglis, Esther; University of Edinburgh, CC BY On September 8, International Literacy Day , established by UNESCO, is celebrated around the world. This year’s theme...
BY EUROPEANA
07.09.2018
Back to school – historic school uniforms in Europeana Collections
If your social media feed is anything like mine, this week it’s been full of photographs of children dressed in school uniforms and big grins, ready for their first days at new schools. Their...
BY EUROPEANA
06.09.2018
The Correspondence of Heloise and Abelard: Love, Friendship and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
The blog is a part of the Rise of Literacy project , where we take you on an exploration of literacy in Europe thanks to the digital preservation of precious textual works from collections across...
Maribor Museum of National Liberation
03.09.2018
Razpis za razstavljanje v Fotografskem muzeju Maribor v letu 2019
Fotografski muzej Maribor, ki ima razstavne prostore na Koroški cesti 19, pripravlja občasni razstavni program za sezono 2019 . Število razstav v tem letu bo največ 10. Čas trajanja posamezne...
BY EUROPEANA
30.08.2018
Travelling texts: information networks of the past
The invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century gave rise to the cross-cultural flow of texts throughout Europe. But complex webs of connections also developed later. The 18 th -century...
BY EUROPEANA
23.08.2018
How primary sources transcend time and transform our connection with history
If you want to know what was it like to live in the Florence of 1400, to discover how the monks of Novacella Monastery begun to produce wine or to trace the development of a public institution,...
BY EUROPEANA
21.08.2018
Migration stories of community – culture that is shared, not diminished
Community is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as: ‘a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common’. But what happens when you don’t have anything in...
BY EUROPEANA
16.08.2018
A Variety of Newspaper Formats
News is news, whether it appears in tabloids, broadsheets, newsbooks or the popular Berliner format. The reader is supposed to focus on the content and not the format. Nonetheless, each format was...
BY EUROPEANA
15.08.2018
Europeana Migration Collection Day – how does it work?
Our collection day events are a great opportunity to share your migration story. Sharing your story, or the story of your family or community, means it is recorded for posterity and preserved along...
BY EUROPEANA
10.08.2018
Silly season or cucumber time – 3 fun cultural activities for the summer
The time of the year, usually in the summer, when not much is happening in the politics is called silly season in English. Due to a lack of newsworthy events to report on during the summer, the...
BY EUROPEANA
09.08.2018
Book Censorship and Banned Books: the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Did you know that the earliest known list of recommended and banned books dates from about 496? It was issued by Pope Gelasius I . Printed lists of banned books existed since the beginning of the...
BY EUROPEANA
07.08.2018
The Belgian Exodus of World War One
Today, the global refugee crisis is a hot topic, all over the news and debated about in society. What is to be changed about the current situation? Who is supposed to do what and when? It may be...
BY EUROPEANA
02.08.2018
Breastfeeding heritage for World Breastfeeding Week
As long as there have been babies, which is quite a long time, there’s been breastfeeding. This week is World Breastfeeding Week – coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action....
BY EUROPEANA
01.08.2018
Dracula was from Yorkshire – and other facts for Yorkshire Day
1. Yorkshire is the biggest county in England An annotated version of Map of England & Wales showing population, 1700s. Wellcome Collection, CC BY Except that strictly speaking, Yorkshire...
BY EUROPEANA
26.07.2018
