Stories

Discover inspiring people, remarkable places and ground-breaking ideas through cultural heritage stories from Europe and beyond
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The Pescia Paper Museum
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Meet the Fuggers: Jakob ‘the Rich’ and his family
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Mining heritage across Europe
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The Grunwick industrial action
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Fiat, the Agnellis and the Italian automotive industry
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Game on: 4 unique championships from across Europe
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Coventry: city of change and movement
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Advertising Philips Radio at the 1948 London Olympic Games
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Inside the WEHA Boxing Glove factory
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Controlling the sea: painting the Zuiderzee engineering works
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Donnay: How a Belgian company became the world's largest tennis racket maker
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Transatlantic travel: Samuel Cunard and shipping
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Czar Peter House in Zaandam: an early tourist attraction in the Netherlands
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One tough cookie: the business and branding of the Verkade biscuit company
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What does it stand for? Understanding corporate abbreviations in Europe
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Self-service: a short history of supermarkets
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Industrial heritage colouring book
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Engineering photography: the Ķegums hydroelectric plant in Latvia
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Catastrophic collateral damage: asbestos at work
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Singer sewing machines
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Strike at the Bor Mine in the 1930s
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From coffee, tea and tobacco to UNESCO: Rotterdam's Van Nelle Factory
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How the Nordics connected the world
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Vespa and Piaggio - icons of Italian industrial design