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Sweden: Joakim Stymne
Article by Joakim Stymne, State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture: This is a view of the Old Town in Stockholm, taken one winter day in 1900 by Swedish physician Carl Curman. I have chosen this...
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United Kingdom: Ed Vaizey / Fiona Hyslop
Article by Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries in the UK Government, and Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs in the Scottish...
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Dear Diary… Is there still a place for you?
Image by incurable_hippie, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License. Today, 6th July, marks the 70th anniversary of Anne Frank’s family going into hiding in...
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All for one and one for all!
210 years ago this week (on July 24th 1802 to be exact), Alexandre Dumas, the writer of classic adventure novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers was born. Dumas was the grandson of a...
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Preview Playtime: The Homepage
It’s time for us to highlight another new update featured in the preview of the new Europeana portal – go to preview.europeana.eu to see it. One of the biggest improvements to the new portal is the...
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Europeana Homepage: Your thoughts?
Now you’ve all had time to explore the homepage on the preview of the new Europeana portal – it’s time for us to hear what you think. We’ve created a very short survey, which will take only 3 minutes...
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Meet Europeana: Geer Oskam
Geer Oskam is Europeana’s new Senior Marketing Specialist. Here he picks out some items from the collections that tell us a little bit more about him. Geer is part of multiple activities within the...
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Schubert, almond blossom and Bloody Sunday
You might think that there can’t be anything that links Schubert to almond blossom and Bloody Sunday – the day 13 Irish demonstrators were shot dead in Derry. But there is. The thread that holds them...
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Meet Europeana: Henning Scholz
Henning Scholz joined Europeana in November 2012 as Europeana Network Developer, but he has had connections with the organisation since 2009. He coordinated the Biodiversity Heritage Library for...
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Happy Europe Day!
Today the whole of Europe will be celebrating Europe Day and the anniversary of the ‘Schuman declaration’. Speaking in Paris in 1950, Robert Schuman (the French foreign minister) proposed a new form of...
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Europeana Open Culture app’s Treasures of Nature – Butterflies
By Milena Popova. Beautiful, fragile, mysterious… All words that come to mind when thinking of butterflies. Always admired for their grace, butterflies have been depicted in artistic works across...
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Europeana Open Culture app’s maps and plans
By Milena Popova. Adventurers love them, explorers devise them, and everyone uses them. With their help you can see the sky, the seas, rivers, mountains, and cities. You can easily (and virtually)...
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Masters of the High Renaissance
Separated by 2,000 kilometres and nearly 250 years, but united by a common birthday (today – 16 July) and a passion for a particular style of painting, today’s blog looks at artists Andrea del Sarto...
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Does Europeana speak your language?
Europeana incorporates treasures from all corners of the continent. You can translate the portal’s interface (the menu options and headings) into 29 languages, and the details about your search results...
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Suspending disbelief with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan died on 25 July 1834. Europeana contains a great collection relating to Coleridge, from a variety of sources including...
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What’s new in Europeana?
From curly clarinets to Latvian contemporary art; from First World War German trade union newspapers to lessons in cinema from France’s top female film-makers; from braille music scores to audio books...
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Edit Wikipedia’s 1989 pages and win a prize!
This year, Europeana launched a project called ‘Europeana 1989′, asking people to share their personal experiences of 1989. The goal is to create a digital archive of first-hand accounts of the fall of...
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Your favourite reads of 2013
Through the magic of modern technology, we’ve discovered the most visited blogs of 2013. So here’s the top ten Europeana blogs you’ve been reading in 2013. It seems you’re a bunch of feline friendly,...
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New features for Europeana
We’re prolonging the season for giving and are pleased to present three new features on Europeana for you to make use of in 2014. ‘Can I use it?’ Items in Europeana come with a licence that specifies...
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Take our Survey to Win an Android Tablet
At Europeana we’re all ears and we want to hear what you think of the Europeana.eu website. Every two years we develop and publish an extensive survey in order for us to understand what you want to do...
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